Milos Debnar

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Affiliation: Associate Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Department of Intercultural Communication, Ryukoku University

Degree: PhD(Kyoto University)
MA(Kyoto University)
Mgr (MA)(Comenius University)

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8523-9795
J-GLOBAL ID: 201401013408667405
researchmap Member ID: 7000009826

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Sociology /

Research History

Apr, 2022 - Present

Associate Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Ryukoku University
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2022

Lecturer, Faculty of International Studies, Ryukoku University
2014 - 2017

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Doshisha University

Education

2010 - 2014

Sociology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
2008 - 2010

Sociology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
1999 - 2006

Japanese language and intercultural communication, Faculty of Letters, Comenius University

Papers

White European migrants in Japan-between an unmarked category and racialized subjects

Debnár, M.

The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, 2023
Privileged, Highly Skilled and Unproblematic? White Europeans in Japan as Migrants

Miloš Debnár

Expatriation and Migration: Two Faces of the Same Coin, 41-66, Nov 14, 2022
Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK

Spela Drnovsek Zorko, Milos Debnar

COMPARATIVE MIGRATION STUDIES, 9(1), Jul, 2021
“Ryūgakusei” as students, workers, or migrants? Multiple meanings and borders of international students in Japan

Debnár Miloš

The Global Education Effect and Japan - Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices, Mar 3, 2020
Coping with the Inbound Tourism in Gion: Resisting the Touristic Gaze

DEBNAR Milos

Intercultural Studies, (23) 29-47, Mar, 2019
BOOK REVIEW:Nihon ni kurasu roshia-jin josei no bunka jinruigaku: Ijū, kokusai kekkon, jinsei-zukuri (Russian Women in Japan: Migration, Marriage, and Life Crafting

DEBNAR Milos

Social Science Japan Journal, 21(2) 357-359, Jun, 2018 Invited
Migration, whiteness, and cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan

Debn{\'a}r, M.

Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan, 2016
BOOK REVIEW: JAPANESE PERCEPTIONS OF FOREIGNERS.

Milos Debnar

PACIFIC AFFAIRS, 88(2) 310-312, Jun, 2015 Invited
Diversification, Complexity and Contingency of Migration Motivation in Global Age: The Case of Contemporary Migration to Japan

Debnar, Milos

Doshisha Review of Sociology, (19) 1-14, Mar, 2015
Compétences et "blancheur de la peau" des immigrés européens au Japon (Skills and whiteness of European migrants in Japan)rop?ens au Japon (Skills and whiteness of European migrants in Japan)

Debnár, Miloš

Migrations Société, 27(157) 71-95, 2015 Peer-reviewedInvited
Global cities and social polarization in Japan: Industries, occupations and inequality in comparison with other regions

Debnar, M, Yasui, D, H. Taromaru

Kyoto Journal of Sociology, (22) 23-48, 2014
Global cities and wage inequality: Industry, occupation, and district

Yasui D, Debnar M, Tarohmaru H

Japanese Sociological Review, 64(2) 152-168, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Diversification of Foreigners in Japan and Their Integration: An Alternative View from the Case of Czechs and Slovaks

Debnar, Milos

Sociology, 57(2) 37-53, 2012 Peer-reviewed
"Individual migration, non-ethnic integration and challenges for the integration policies in Japan"

DEBNAR Milos

Proceedings of the 3rd Next-Generation Global Workshop Migration : Global Reconstruction of Intimate and Public Spheres, 401-412, 2011
A Study on the Construction of Intimacy between Differing Cultures

Daisuke Yasui, Renato Rivera, Ernani Shoiti Oda, DEBNAR Milos, MInori Matsutani

17 9-13, 2010

Major Books and Other Publications

The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies

Rikke Andreassen, Catrin Lundström, Suvi Keskinen, Shirley Anne Tate (Role: Contributor, White European Migrants in Japan – Between an Unmarked Category and Racialized Subjects)

Routledge, Jul, 2023 (ISBN: 9780367637699)
Expatriation and Migration: Two Faces of the Same Coin

Sylvain Beck (ed.) (Role: Contributor, Privileged, Highly Skilled and Unproblematic? White Europeans in Japan as Migrants (p.41-66))

Brill, Nov, 2022 (ISBN: 9789004529502)
Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan

Milos Debnar

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 (ISBN: 9781137565266)

Presentations

Why do you want to study in Japan? Perceived value and motivations to study in Japan by Central European universities’ students

Milos Debnar, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Christopher Kummer

17th International conference of the EAJS, Aug 18, 2023
Aspirations and capabilities of further mobility among middle-class European migrants to Japan

Milos Debnar

Forschungskolloquium, Japan-Zentrum, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Dec 15, 2022 Invited
Locating the complexity of whiteness in the migration context of Japan

Milos Debnar

Researching Whiteness in a Transnational Pandemic Context, University of Amsterdam Invited
Diversity and integration of Europeans in Japan - the role of whiteness and conceptual issues

Milos Debnar

Open and closed societies: historical reasons and modern consequences of inequality in Japan and Europe, University of Tartu Invited
Superdiversity and racialization in different context: Central and Eastern Europeans in the UK and Japan

Milos DEBNAR

Looking back to look forward: Celebrating 10 Years of Research on Migration, Forced Displacement and Superdiversity, Sep 14, 2022
Staying or leaving? Return and settlement decisions of European migrants to Japan

Milos DEBNAR

RE:MIGRATION - Nordic Migration;Research Conference, Aug 17, 2022
Let's make it an inconvenient place here: Opposing over-tourism in Kyoto’s Gion before and during the pandemic

Milos Debnar

u:japan lecture, University of Vienna, Apr 5, 2022 Invited
Local opposition to over-tourism in Gion South district before and during the pandemic

Miloš Debnár

Iaponica Brunensia 2021, Sep, 2021
Meanings of Japan as destination and meaning of migration for contemporary Europeans in Japan

Milos Debnar

European Association for Japanese Studies Conference 2021, Aug, 2021
Covid-19, travel restrictions and long-term plans of foreign residents in Japan

Milos Debnar

“COVID-19 and Peace” Virtual Symposium, Dec, 2020 Invited
Europeans in Japan – a patchwork of social positions

Milos Debnar

Association for Asian Studies AAS-in-Asia 2020, Aug, 2020
Beyond the traditional diversity of migration – Europeans in Japan as ‘migrants’

Milos DEBNAR

New and old migrations and diversities in UK and Japan, Dec 3, 2019
Europeans in Japan as strangers: Role of whiteness, gender and cultural capital in the integration

DEBNAR Milos

ICAS 11, Jul 18, 2019
Making borders of the foreign students in Japan – “ryūgakusei” as students, workers or migrants?

DEBNAR Milos

AAS Annual Conference, Mar 21, 2019
日本における白人ヨーロッパ人の現在

デブナールミロシュ

日本国際文化学会全国大会, Jul 8, 2018
Global and local in the occupational niches of Europeans in Japan

DEBNAR Milos

Diversity in the Japanese Labor Market: Challenges and Opportunities, Dec 14, 2016
Young skilled migrants: hopes and struggles in new global trends

DEBNAR Milos

Third ISA Forum of Sociology, Jul, 2016
Caught between the privilege and burden: hopes and struggles of white European migrants in Japan

DEBNAR Milos

Association for Asian Studies AAS-in-ASIA, Jun, 2016
White European migrants in Japan – unavoidable differences or obscured inequalities?

DEBNAR Milos

12th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Sep, 2015
Skills, Occupations, and Inequalities Among the Europeans in Japan

18th International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, 2014

Major Professional Memberships

Feb, 2011 - Present

International Sociological Association
Apr, 2010 - Present

The Japan Sociological Association

Major Research Projects

Staying or leaving? Choices of further mobility or settlement of European migrants in Japan

Early-Career Scientists, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2022

DEBNAR Milos
日本をなぜ離れるか―日本在住経験者のヨーロッパ人の帰国選択に関する研究

科学研究費助成事業国際共同研究加速基金(国際共同研究強化(A)), 国際共同研究加速基金(国際共同研究強化(A)), 日本学術振興会, Mar, 2019 - Mar, 2022

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