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Over the past year I have been paying attention to a national scandal here in Japan that is centered around a kindergarten here in Osaka.  (...

"[C]ross-border marriage migration is understood as migration that results, at least in part, from a contractual relationship between...

The word "privilege" is one that I use with extreme caution in any context but especially when talking about migration. C. Lundst...

The new president of France, Emmanuel Macron, has spoken directly to the American people in response to Donald Trump's decision to withd...

"Yet this writer does not judge MacCannell as intending to encompass all forms of tourism in all ages and societies, but as providing a...

In my migration studies the theory that I liked (loved, actually) the best was migration systems theory.  I thought it captured the complexi...

"In other words, it is postulated that a semi-independent relation links the nuclear family to the extended family. Because the extend...

There are books that make me want to ask for my dissertation back so I can cite them and add to my bibliography. Redefining Japaneseness:  J...

When I first heard the term Lifestyle Migration I really didn't know what to make of it.   "Lifestyle" in English implies some...

And we all think we know the answer to that . It's because my country has opportunity, jobs, a good social welfare network, the best ...

Susan Ossman , a professor at UC Riverside, has done some fascinating work on a migrant phenomenon that she calls serial migration . A ser...

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan What a delight to find the websi...

The first time our little Franco-American family headed off for Asia back in 2006 the French multinational my spouse worked for built us a g...

Contempt before investigation is a most perilous mindset and I was skirting the edges of it as I reluctantly picked up   Self-Initiated Expa...