Hof Helena ＨｏｆＨｅｌｅｎａ

Researcher Number	20837207
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Affiliation (Current)	2026: 早稲田大学, 総合研究機構, その他(招聘研究員)
Affiliation (based on the past Project Information) *help	2021 – 2024: 早稲田大学, 総合研究機構, その他(招聘研究員) 2019 – 2020: 早稲田大学, 国際学術院(アジア太平洋研究センター), 研究助手
Review Section/Research Field	Principal Investigator Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
Keywords	Principal Investigator comparative research / sociology / skilled migration / Japanese labor market / ダイバーシティー / グローバル都市 / 人類学 / 社会学 / 移民 / 労働市場 … More / 外国人高度人材 / Singapore / highly-skilled / integration / career / Japan / mobility / global cities / labour market / migration Less

Research Projects
(1 results)
Research Products
(35 results)

Tokyo's attractiveness for global talent: a comparative study of Tokyo, Singapore, and Sao PauloPrincipal Investigator
- Principal Investigator
  
  Hof Helena
- Project Period (FY)
  2019 – 2024
- Research Category
  
  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
- Review Section
  
  Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
- Research Institution
  Waseda University

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[Book] The EU Migrant Generation in Asia. Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities2022
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Total Pages
  264
- Publisher
  Bristol University Press
- ISBN
  9781529225006
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Journal Article] ‘White Innovation’: Conceptualizing Changing Racial Hierarchies Through Migrant Entrepreneurship in Singapore and Japan.2025
- Author(s)
  Hof, Helena
- Journal Title
  
  Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia (book title), co-edited by Shanshan Lan and Milos Debnar.
  
  Volume: x Pages: 121-140
- Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Journal Article] Employment as an anchor: The prospects of emerging East Asian skilled migration regimes through the lens of migrants’ access to the labor market2024
- Author(s)
  Hof Helena、Muranaka Aimi, Park Joohyun Justine
- Journal Title
  
  Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
  
  Volume: 33 Issue: 3 Pages: 554-576
- DOI
  10.1177/01171968241292376
- Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Journal Article] Migratory class-making in global Asian cities: the European mobile middle negotiating ambivalent privilege in Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai2023
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof and Jaafar Alloul
- Journal Title
  
  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  
  Volume: 50:10 Issue: 10 Pages: 2491-2509
- DOI
  10.1080/1369183x.2023.2271669
- Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Journal Article] Book review of "Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods"2022
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Journal Title
  
  Social Science Japan Journal
  
  Volume: 25 Issue: 2 Pages: 353-356
- DOI
  10.1093/ssjj/jyac009
- Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Journal Article] Book review of "Transnational Musicians: Precariousness, Ethnicity and Gender in the Creative Industry"2022
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Journal Title
  
  Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
  
  Volume: 47
- Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Journal Article] When “global talents” struggle to become local workers: The new face of skilled migration to corporate Japan.2020
- Author(s)
  Hof, Helena and Yen-Fen Tseng
- Journal Title
  
  Asia and Pacific Migration Journal
  
  Volume: 29:4 Issue: 4 Pages: 511-531
- DOI
  10.1177/0117196820984088
- Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Journal Article] Intersections of Race and Skills in European Migration to Asia: Between White Cultural Capital and ‘Passive Whiteness’.2020
- Author(s)
  Hof, Helena
- Journal Title
  
  Ethnic and Racial Studies
  
  Volume: not yet allocated Issue: 11 Pages: 2113-2134
- DOI
  10.1080/01419870.2020.1822535
- Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Journal Article] Opting Out for Getting In: Existential Mobility in European Graduates’ Migration to Asia2020
- Author(s)
  Hof, Helena
- Journal Title
  
  Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
  
  Volume: 18:3 Issue: 3 Pages: 286-299
- DOI
  10.1080/15562948.2020.1755761
- Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] The construction of the highly-skilled: what purpose does it serve?2025
- Author(s)
  Hof, Helena
- Organizer
  Skills INCORP -end of project event. University of Copenhagen.
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Class and Aspirations in European Migration to Asian Global Cities.2024
- Author(s)
  Hof, Helena
- Organizer
  ARI Seminar Series, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Employment as an anchor: The prospects of emerging East Asian skilled migration regimes through the lens of migrants access to the labor market2024
- Author(s)
  Hof, Helena, Aimi Muranaka, and Joohyun Justine Park.
- Organizer
  Colloquium “Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia”, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea.
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Gender Dynamics in high-tech startups: An intersectional perspective on labor in transnational entrepreneurship2024
- Author(s)
  Hof, Helena
- Organizer
  Multicultural Coexistence And Development Of Leadership Under Globalization, IGL Symposium, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo.
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Alternative Global Cities and Privileged Migration. Unsettling class and human capital in skilled migration to Sao Paulo.2024
- Author(s)
  Hof, Helena
- Organizer
  IMISCOE, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Aspiring to stay? Prolonged stay-ing processes of high-skilled migrants in Japan.2024
- Author(s)
  Hof, Helena
- Organizer
  Kobe Migration Research Center, Japan.
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Highly-skilled migration to Japan2024
- Author(s)
  Hof, Helena
- Organizer
  2nd Workshop on ASEAN-Japan Regional Talent Circulation, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] (Im)mobility and class among highly-educated middling migrants in Asia.2023
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  Understanding Asia - Inter-Asian Mobilities. Lecture series 2023/24. Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] The EU migrant generation in Asia. Middle-class aspirations in Asian global cities2023
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  Book talk at Temple University Japan Campus
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] The EU migrant generation in Asia. Middle-class aspirations in Asian global cities2023
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  Book talk at Waseda University
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Middle-Class Aspirations among European Migrants in Asian Global Cities2023
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  SOUTHEAST ASIA MEET-UP. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Southeast Asia. Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Zurich
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] The EU migrant generation in Asia. Middle class aspirations in Asian global cities. Book talk, u:japan lectures2023
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  Department of East Asian Studies - Japanese Studies, University of Vienna
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] The EU migrant generation in Asia. Middle class aspirations in Asian global cities. Book talk, u:japan lectures2023
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  Asia Seminar Series. Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Talented employees go global. Migration of young Europeans to Asia in search of distinction and alternative life paths.2023
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  International Online Conference for Career Professionals. #CAREERFORUM2023
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] The EU migrant generation in Asia. Middle-class aspirations in Asian global cities2023
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  International Christian University, Tokyo
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Women in Business and the Gender Gap in Japan2022
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  Asia Days 2022, in conjunction with Asia Society Switzerland
- Invited / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Roundtable on innovative approaches in transnational migration studies: Discussing mixed-method and multi-sited research designs2022
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  Association for Asian Studies
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Disentangling Whiteness in contemporary East and Southeast Asia: A new analytical approach2022
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  Workshop Researching Whiteness in a Transnational Pandemic Context
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Convenor; discussant of the keynote speeches2021
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  Graduate Student Workshop "Practical Issues of Fieldwork in Japan"
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Constructing Careers, Constructing the Self: Young Europeans' Professional Mobility to Singapore, Tokyo, and Sao Paulo.2021
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil (online)l
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] The gendered migration trajectories of European labour migrants in Tokyo2021
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  DGA & AREA conference Transnational Asian Studies
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] (Im)Mobility and Place-Making among European Middling Migrants in Tokyo2020
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  Symposium on Contemporary European Migrants in Japan, Kyoto, Japan (online)
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Striving to Stay, Bound to Leave: Highly educated Europeans in superdiverse Singapore2020
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof (organizer, presenter, and chair of the panel)
- Organizer
  Association of Asian Studies Conference in Asia, Kobe, Japan (online)
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] The Mobile Millennial Generation: Inter-and Intra-generational Dynamics in European Migration to Singapore and Tokyo2019
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  International Conference Migration and the Generational Experience
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] Foreign Skilled Workers in Corporate Japan2019
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  Invited by Professor Fabian J. Froese to the Research Seminar of the Chair of Asian Business and Management, University of Göttingen
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890
[Presentation] (Im)Mobility and Place-making in Superdiverse Tokyo: Newcomer Europeans’ Multidimensional Practices of Embedding2019
- Author(s)
  Helena Hof
- Organizer
  International Symposium New and old migrations and diversities in UK and Japan
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K13890

Hof Helena Ｈｏｆ Ｈｅｌｅｎａ

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Tokyo's attractiveness for global talent: a comparative study of Tokyo, Singapore, and Sao PauloPrincipal Investigator

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[Book] The EU Migrant Generation in Asia. Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities2022

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[Journal Article] ‘White Innovation’: Conceptualizing Changing Racial Hierarchies Through Migrant Entrepreneurship in Singapore and Japan.2025

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[Journal Article] Employment as an anchor: The prospects of emerging East Asian skilled migration regimes through the lens of migrants’ access to the labor market2024

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[Journal Article] Migratory class-making in global Asian cities: the European mobile middle negotiating ambivalent privilege in Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai2023

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[Journal Article] Book review of "Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods"2022

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[Journal Article] Book review of "Transnational Musicians: Precariousness, Ethnicity and Gender in the Creative Industry"2022

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[Journal Article] When “global talents” struggle to become local workers: The new face of skilled migration to corporate Japan.2020

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[Journal Article] Intersections of Race and Skills in European Migration to Asia: Between White Cultural Capital and ‘Passive Whiteness’.2020

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[Journal Article] Opting Out for Getting In: Existential Mobility in European Graduates’ Migration to Asia2020

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[Presentation] The construction of the highly-skilled: what purpose does it serve?2025

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[Presentation] Class and Aspirations in European Migration to Asian Global Cities.2024

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[Presentation] Employment as an anchor: The prospects of emerging East Asian skilled migration regimes through the lens of migrants access to the labor market2024

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[Presentation] Gender Dynamics in high-tech startups: An intersectional perspective on labor in transnational entrepreneurship2024

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[Presentation] Alternative Global Cities and Privileged Migration. Unsettling class and human capital in skilled migration to Sao Paulo.2024

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[Presentation] Aspiring to stay? Prolonged stay-ing processes of high-skilled migrants in Japan.2024

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[Presentation] Highly-skilled migration to Japan2024

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Hof Helena ＨｏｆＨｅｌｅｎａ