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NAGASAKA ITARU
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Affiliation Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Discipline Cultural Anthropology
Academic Degrees Kobe University Doctor of Letters
University of Tsukuba Master
Research Fields Humanities; Cultural anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Humanities; Philosophy; Area studies
Social sciences; Sociology; Sociology
Research Keywords migration / transnationalism / Philippines / 1.5 generation / masculinity / Italy / family / kinship / marriage migration / housing policy
Comments NAGASAKA Itaru has been conducting anthropological fieldwork on Filipino migration for more than 20 years. He started his first fieldwork in the rural areas of the Ilocos region as a student at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines in 1992. Since then, he has worked on Filipino transnational migration and did fieldwork in the Philippines, Italy, France, UK and Japan. From 2009 to 2015, he headed a research project funded by JSPS on the 1.5 generation Filipinos living in different countries. He is currently leading the international collaborative project on how Filipino workers in different countries have been affected by the Pandemic. He is the author of Filipino Transnational Villagers: Anthropology of Transnationalism (in Japanese, 2009) and co-editor (with Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot) of Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families: Migrant Children with Similar Roots in Different Routes (2015).
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Educational Programs [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Integrated Arts and Sciences : Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences : Integrated Arts and Sciences
[Master's Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : International Peace and Co-existence Program
[Master's Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Integrated Arts and Human Sciences Program
[Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : International Peace and Co-existence Program
[Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Integrated Arts and Human Sciences Program
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