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Dr. Danau Tanu

Visiting Researcher

Danau Tanu holds an interdisciplinary PhD in anthropology and Asian studies from the University of Western Australia and is the author of Growing Up in Transit: The Politics of Belonging at an International School, the first book on structural racism in international schools. Her research interests focus on the intersections of temporary migration, youth, identity, and (international) education. Danau was previously affiliated with the Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies as a Japan Foundation scholar.

Research Projects

Japan’s Multicultural Youth: Diversity and Identity in Tokyo’s High Schools

Recent publications

Tanu, D., & Missbach, A. (2024). Boredom, Hope, and Intimate Labor in Transit: Young Male Refugees and Their Intimate Relationships with Older, Local Women in Indonesia. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 709(1), 145-164. doi.org/10.1177/00027162241248280 (Original work published 2023)
Tanu, D. (2018). Are hafus ‘dirty’ or ‘special’? Negotiating mixed-race identities among Japanese-Indonesian youths in Indonesia. Social Identities, 25(3), 376–391. doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2018.1500169
Tanu, D., & Parker, L. (2018). Fun, ‘Family’, and Friends: Developing pro-environmental behaviour among high school students in Indonesia. Indonesia and the Malay World, 46(136), 303–324. doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2018.1518015

For the list of Danau’s previous publications, please go here.