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Prof. Lara Tienshi Chen
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Ph.D. in International Political Economy, University of Tsukuba. Undertook research at Chinese University of Hong Kong (1994-1995), Harvard University (1997-2000 and University of Tokyo (2000-2003). Being associate professor and organized numerous events, talks and exhibitions while working in National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka (2003-2013) and started teaching at the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda Univeristy since 2013. She wrote the book “Mukokuseki (無国籍 Stateless)” that was published in Japan, translated and published in Korea and Taiwan, which is based on her own experience as stateless person for over 30 years. Her research topics include Chinese diaspora, statelessness and global migration. She also founded the NGO group Stateless Network in 2009 to advocate and support stateless issues.
Research Projects
Social perceptions of statelessness and development of educational tools
Recent publications
Stateless, NUS Press, Singapore, 2024.
「無国籍―国家からこぼれ落ちた人びと」池直美、エドワード・ボイル編著『変容する日本の境界』北海道大学出版会、2023年1月、117-136頁。
「在日華僑華人三世代のオートエスノグラフィ:横浜中華街で生まれ育った「私」のhomenessとhomelessness」『文化人類学』87(2)、2022年、224-242頁。
『無国籍と複数国籍―あなたは「ナニジン」ですか?』光文社新書、2022. (生協総研賞表彰事業研究賞受賞)
絵本『にじいろのペンダント~国籍のないわたしたちのはなし』大月書店、2022.
“Sino-Burmese Secondary Migration and Identity: Tracing Family Histories”, Journal of Chinese Overseas 18 (2022) 358–383.
「国籍の無い、国籍を超えた社会へ」李里花編著『朝鮮籍とは何か―トランスナショナルの視点から』明石書店、2021年1月、199-202頁。
「太平洋戦争期の横浜華僑華人―魏家と汪家のファミリーヒストリーを通して」早稲田大学国際教養学部紀要Waseda Global Forum Vol.17、2021年3月、1-23頁。
「移民と食」野林厚志編『世界の食文化百科事典』丸善出版、2021年3月、478-481頁。
Migration Policy in Asia, Sage Publishing, August, 2020.
『移民がやってきた―アジアの少数民族、日本での物語』現代人文社, 2019.
『無国籍―我,和那些被国家遗忘的人们』 八旗出版, 2017.
『無国籍三十年』(『鏡週刊』、2017年8月)
『パスポート学』北海道大学出版会, 2016.
“Born to Be Stateless, Being Stateless: Translational Marriage, Migration and the Registration of Stateless People in Japan,” in Sari K. Ishii ed., Marriage Migration in Asia- Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation States, National Singapore University Press, 2016, pp187-201.
For Lara Tienshi CHEN's previous publications, please go here.
