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Reiko Ogawa

Chiba University


Reiko Ogawa

Reiko Ogawa is a professor at Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University in Japan. Major in sociology and migration studies, her research interest is on migration and care work and have collaborated with scholars from Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea doing comparative work on migration policies and practices in Asia. She has also worked with think tanks, social welfare organizations, caregiver associations and migrant groups producing policy research, educational materials and guidebooks. She also conduct trainings and workshops for Japanese care facilities which employ migrant care workers.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries Japan;
Topics Care economy; Gender and care; LTC insurance; LTC Policy; LTC Workforce; Social Protection;
Methods Case studies; Comparative policy analysis; Ethnography; Focus groups; Qualitative studies;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Migration Mobility and Care Workers;
Websitehttps://researchmap.jp/reikopon
ORC.ID0000-0002-5490-5564
GOOGLE SCHOLARhttps://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?hl=ja&user=Ib5UN-MAAAAJ
Key publications

Reiko Ogawa, 2024, Migrant Workers in the Care Sector, Ed. Guglielmo Meardi, Research Handbook on Migration and Employment, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp168-181.

Reiko Ogawa, 2022, The State and the Market: Acceptance of Migrant Care Workers Through Multiple Channels, ERIA Research Project Report No. 06, Eds. Yuko Hirano and Osuke Komazawa, Agents of Care Technology Transfer Trends and Challenges of Migration Care Workers Across Borders, pp7-21.

Ferry Efendi, Ching Min Chen, Anna Kurniati, Yuni Sufyanti Arief, Reiko Ogawa, 2022, The Course of Broken Dreams: The Expectations and Realities of the Life of Indonesian Nurses as Care Workers in Japan, Collegian, 29(5):680-687.

Reiko Ogawa, 2021, When Local Meets Global: The Changing Face of Old-Age Care in Japan, Eds. Horn, Vincent, Schweppe, Cornelia, Böcker, Anita, Bruquetas-Callejo, Maria, The Global Old Age Care Industry: Tapping into Migrants for tackling the Old Age Care Crisis, Palgrave Macmillan, pp31-55.

Sumiko Honda and Reiko Ogawa, 2021, Domestic Violence in Japan. An Invisible Problem in the “Safest Country in the World”, Deported, Exiles, Refugees/DEP – Deportate, esuli, profughe, 45, pp35-59.

Reiko Ogawa, 2020, Use and Abuse of Trafficking Discourse in Japan, Journal of Population and Social Studies, 28, pp 106-125.

Reiko Ogawa, 2020, Making Migrant Care Workers in East Asia, Eds. Jieyu Liu and Junko Yamashita, Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies, Routledge, pp123-143.

Ayako Sasaki and Reiko Ogawa, 2019, Social Stratification of Migrant Care Workers in Japan, ASEAN Social Work Journal, 7, pp15-34.

Andrew Germar and Reiko Ogawa, 2019, Japan: Gender Studies in Perspective, Handbuch Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung, Springer, pp1483-1492.

Eds. Reiko Ogawa, Chan, Raymond K. H., Oishi, Akiko S., Lih-Rong Wang, 2018, Gender, Care and Migration in East Asia, Palgrave Macmillan. 

Reiko Ogawa, 2017, Japan: From Social Reproduction to Gender Equality, Eds. Marian Baird, Michele Ford, Elizabeth Hill, Women, Work and Care in the Asia-Pacific, Routledge, pp199-213.

Reiko Ogawa and Lih-Rong Wang, 2017, Guest Editor for Special Issue on Migration and Care Work: Policies and Practices in Asia, Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, Vol. 3-4.