Helena Hof, Dr.
- Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer Social Science of Japan
- Program development and study advisor MAMES
- Phone
- +41 44 634 40 91
- Room number
- ZUB 4-420
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| Since 03/2021 | QuaMaFa (Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia) is a four-year collaborative project looking into different aspects of qualifications and skills in the process of migration. |
| Since 12/2019 |
NODE – New and Old Diversity Exchange NODE – New and Old Diversity Exchange. |
| 02/2020 | Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich |
| Since 03/2021 | Research Fellow, Socio-Cultural Department, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (GER) [part-time] |
| 2018 – 2019 | Research Associate/Postdoctoral Fellow, Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and Institute of Asian Migrations, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 | Lecturer, Graduate School of Global Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2015 – 2019 | PhD in International Studies, sociological/regional focus on East and Southeast Asia |
| 2015 – 2018 | Research and Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2013 – 2015 | Master of Arts in International Relations, sociological/regional focus on East and Southeast Asia, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2013 – 2014 | Teaching Assistant in the International Study Program, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 | Trainee in the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Japan, Tokyo |
| 2010 – 2011 | Study abroad (BA) at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 – 2012 | Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies, major: sociology of East and Southeast Asia, University of Bonn, Germany |
Hof, Helena. 2022. The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities. Bristol University Press, Global Migration and Social Change Series.
Hof, Helena and Jaafar Alloul. 2023. Migratory class-making in global Asian cities: The European mobile middle negotiating ambivalent privilege in Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2271669
Hof, Helena. 2022. ‘Die mixed embeddedness ausländischer Unternehmer*innen in Tōkyōs Startup-Ökosystem.’ [The mixed embeddedness of foreign entrepreneurs in Tōkyō’s startup ecosystem] In: Chiavacci, David; Wieczorek, Iris. Japan 2022. München: VSJF – Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung, 233-259.
Hof, Helena, Simon Pemberton and Emilia Pietka-Nykaza. 2021. 'EU migrant retention and the temporalities of migrant staying: A new conceptual framework.' Comparative Migration Studies. 10.1186/s40878-021-00225-5 Watch Youtube trailer here.
Hof, Helena and Yen-Fen Tseng. 2020. 'When “global talents” struggle to become local workers: The new face of skilled migration to corporate Japan.' Asia and Pacific Migration Journal 29 (4): 511-531. DOI: 10.1177/0117196820984088
Hof, Helena. 2020. 'Intersections of Race and Skills in European Migration to Asia: Between White Cultural Capital and ‘Passive Whiteness’. Ethnic and Racial Studies. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1822535
Hof, Helena. 2020. Opting Out for Getting In: Existential Mobility in European Graduates’ Migration to Asia.' Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2020.1755761
Hof, Helena. 2020. ‘Locally Embedded Cosmopolitans? European Millennials’ Boundary Work in Singapore and Tokyo’ In Contemporary European Emigration, Brigitte Suter und Lisa Åkesson (eds). Routledge: pp. 39-57.
Hof. Helena. 2019. ‘The Eurostars Go Global: Young Europeans’ Migration to Asia for Distinction and Alternative Life Paths.’ Mobilities. DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1643164.
Hof, Helena und Gracia Liu-Farrer. 2019. ‘Gender, Labour and Migration in Japan.’ In The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture, Mark Pendleton, Jennifer Coates und Lucy Fraser (eds). Routledge: pp. 189-98.
Hof, Helena. 2018. ‘‘Worklife Pathways’ to Singapore and Japan: Gender and Racial dynamics in Europeans` Mobility to Asia’, Social Science Japan Journal, Special Issue Winter 2018, 21 (1): 45-65.
Liu-Farrer, Gracia und Helena Hof. 2018. ‘Ōtebyō: the Problems of Japanese Firms and the Problematic Elite Aspirations.’ Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies (Waseda), 34: 65-84.
Hof, Helena. 2019. ‘Mobility as a Way of Life: European Millennials’ Labour Migration to Asian Global Cities.’ Waseda Universität, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies.
Hof, Helena. 2022. Book review of “Transnational Musicians. Precariousness, Ethnicity and Gender in the Creative Industry” (Beata M. Kowalczyk, 2020, Routledge). Intersections, 47 (July 2022)
Hof, Helena. 2022. Book review of “Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods” (eds. Nora Kottmann and Cornelia Reiher, 2020, Nomos). Social Science Japan Journal.
Book review of Expatriate Managers: The Paradoxes of Living and Working Abroad, Anna Spiegel, Ursula Mense-Petermann and Bastian Bredekötter (2019). Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 2020, 4(2): 275-277.
Book review of `Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan`, Milos Debnar. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, XI+235 pp., 89.99€ (ISBN 978-1-13756526-6). Social Science Japan Journal, 2017, 20(2): 235-38.
Hof, Helena. 2022. ‘How COVID-19 changed migration (research): Constrained research practices, constrained migrant subjects.’ Blog post of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, 3 June (https://www.mmg.mpg.de/940281/blog-hof-how-covid-19-changed-migration).
Graduate Student Workshop Zurich, Convenor (with Nora Gilgen and Chiara Fusari)
Graduate Student Workshop Facing Methodological Challenges in Asian Studies. Online. November 19, 2020. Covenor (with Nora Gilgen and Fynn Holm)
International Conference The Question of Skills in Cross-border Labor Mobility, Waseda University, Tokyo, September 20–21, 2018. Co-convenor (with Brenda Yeoh, Michiel Baas and Gracia Liu-Farrer)
| 10/2020 – | Reviews Editor for Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration (Intellect Books) |
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2019 – |
Reviewing activities for academic journals (Applied Mobilities, Comparative Migration Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Global Networks, Japan Jahrbuch, Ethnic and Migration Studies, Mobilities, Sociology of Race) |
| 2019 – 2023 | Early-Career Scientists Award, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Principal Investigator, Project title: “Tokyo's attractiveness for global talent: a comparative study of Tokyo, Singapore, and Sao Paulo” |
| 09/2020 | Graduate Campus University of Zurich GRC Short Grant for the Graduate Student Workshop Facing Methodological Challenges in Asian Studies (with Nora Gilgen and Fynn Holm) |
| 2017 | Haraguchi Memorial Asia Research Fund, Waseda University |
| 2015 | Haraguchi Memorial Asia Research Fund, Waseda University |
| 09/2015 | Valedictorian MA Program, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University |
| 2014 | Highest Honors List of the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University |
| 2013 – 2018 | Future Leader’s Program for Regional Governance and Cooperation in Asia |
| 2009 – 2012 | NRW-Stipendium (scholarship of the Federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) |
Academic Advisor and Program Development for the Master of Arts in Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (MAMES)
Member of the Executive Board, VAUZ (Association of Academic Mid-Level Faculty Staff of the University of Zurich)
Member of the Senate of the University of Zurich
European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF)
Swiss Association for Gender Studies (SAGS)
International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE)
International Sociological Association (ISA):
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)