Iris Issen
Visiting Researcher
Iris Issen (they/she) is Project Assistant Professor at Tokyo College, UTIAS, The University of
Tokyo. Their research concerns digital media, minorities (especially trans women) and identities, and
they are interested with intersections of queer, mobility, national and transnational identities in the
context of globalisation and digitalisation. ORCID: 0000-0003-4372-2399.
Website: https://www.irissen.com/
Research grant
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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career
Scientists, 2023-2025
Publications (Single authored)
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(2024). When Digital Media Intersects with Queerness: Transnational Connectivity and the Sense of (Dis) Connectedness among Chinese Trans Women in Japan. In Beatrice Zani and Isabelle Cheng ed., Living Across
Connectivity: Intimacy, Entrepreneurship and Activism of East Asian Migrants Online and Offline. London: Anthem Press. -
(2024). "Chinese Trans Women in Japan and Their Embodied Search for Gender Identity in the Online–Offline Continuum", Transfers 12, 3 (2022): 28-46. https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2022.120304.
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"“Us” and “others”: The Chinese Diaspora in Japan and the Negotiation of Their Membership in the Sphere of Chineseness"; Asian Anthropology (2023): 1-3.
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(2022). Studying Digital Media in Diasporic Transnationalism Context –The Case of International Migrants in Japan. In Forum Mithani and Griseldis Kirsch ed., Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition. Tokyo: Japan Documents, pp. 244-259.
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(2022). Building a Life on the Soil of the Ultimate Other: WeChat and Belonging among Chinese Migrants in Japan. In Wanning Sun and Haiqing Yu ed., WeChat Diaspora: Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China’s Rise. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 171-190.
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(2020). Digital Technology, Physical Spaces, and the Notion of Belonging among Chinese Migrants in Japan. Asiascape: Digital Asia, 7 (2020), pp. 211-233.
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(2020). Chinese Migrants’ Sense of Belonging in Japan: Between Digital and Physical Spaces. Migration Research Series No. 61. Geneva: United Nations - International Organization for Migration, pp. 1-13. Available at: https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/mrs- 61.pdf.
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(2019). Development Induced Migration and Institutionalised Discrimination: Differential Citizenship and Internal Migrants’ Self- Identity in China. Journal of Internal Displacement: Special Issue on the Future of Internal Displacement and Sustainable Development, 9 (1), pp. 51-73.