Yunchen Tian
Biographic Data
| ID | 3677092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yunchen Tian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yunchen |
| FAMILY NAME | Tian |
| SIGNATURE | TIAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Martin's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5681-6936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Maintaining sovereignty at the margins
Using policy and discourse analysis, as well as fieldwork across several island localities in Okinawa, I argue that Japan’s contemporary security strategy in Okinawa is not limited to exercising effective jurisdiction over territorial and maritime boundaries but also to incentivise the desirable movement of people and economic activity as a means of sustaining habitation of Japan’s remote border areas. In other words, internal migration governanc…
The developmental migration state
What drives some states to liberalise immigration policies while others resist doing so? Why do states expand rights for some migrants and not for others? Building on Hollifield’s [(2004). ‘The Emerging Migration State’. International Migration Review 38 (3): 885–912] theory of the migration state, this article explores how the process of political economic development in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan shaped their citizenship regimes and, later,…
Workers, Neighbours, or Something Else? Local Policies and Policy Narratives of Technical Intern Training Program Participants
Local governments at the prefectural and municipal levels across Japan have begun to allocate discretionary public funds to educate employers about the recruitment process for foreign Technical Training Internship Program (TITP) workers and subsidize the paperwork fees associated with it. This article investigates this phenomenon by drawing upon data collected from correspondence with municipal officials and analysis of policy documents, as well …
Migration governance in East and Southeast Asia
This article explains migration governance in East and Southeast Asia by comparing guestworker programs that have institutionalized labor migration flows between Southeast Asian countries (especially Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam) and the two largest Northeast Asian recipients of labor migration, Japan and South Korea. It demonstrates how these programs have led to heightened competition for skilled labor between countries of destinatio…
Regulating membership and movement at the meso-level
This paper analyzes how East Asian states have regulated membership and migration through meso-level institutions. Specifically, we examine how states have used the household registration system (China’s hukou system, South Korea’s hoju/hojeok system, and Japan’s koseki system) in the process of nation-state building in the early post-World War Two period, as a security measure to control movement throughout the Cold War, and as a tool to build o…
Workers by any other name
In the field of comparative immigration politics, Japan has been described as a ‘negative case’: despite structural shortages in the domestic labour supply, scholars have commonly pointed to the nation’s extremely restrictive, ethno-nationalist policies as an antithetical case against which traditional migration states can be compared. Applying an approach focused on the viewpoint of the state, I argue that in response to market pressures, Japan …
The developmental migration state
What drives some states to liberalise immigration policies while others resist doing so? Why do states expand rights for some migrants and not for others? Building on Hollifield’s [(2004). ‘The Emerging Migration State’. International Migration Review 38 (3): 885–912] theory of the migration state, this article explores how the process of political economic development in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan shaped their citizenship regimes and, later,…
Workers by any other name
In the field of comparative immigration politics, Japan has been described as a ‘negative case’: despite structural shortages in the domestic labour supply, scholars have commonly pointed to the nation’s extremely restrictive, ethno-nationalist policies as an antithetical case against which traditional migration states can be compared. Applying an approach focused on the viewpoint of the state, I argue that in response to market pressures, Japan …
Regulating membership and movement at the meso-level
This paper analyzes how East Asian states have regulated membership and migration through meso-level institutions. Specifically, we examine how states have used the household registration system (China’s hukou system, South Korea’s hoju/hojeok system, and Japan’s koseki system) in the process of nation-state building in the early post-World War Two period, as a security measure to control movement throughout the Cold War, and as a tool to build o…
Migration governance in East and Southeast Asia
This article explains migration governance in East and Southeast Asia by comparing guestworker programs that have institutionalized labor migration flows between Southeast Asian countries (especially Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam) and the two largest Northeast Asian recipients of labor migration, Japan and South Korea. It demonstrates how these programs have led to heightened competition for skilled labor between countries of destinatio…
Workers by any other name
In the field of comparative immigration politics, Japan has been described as a ‘negative case’: despite structural shortages in the domestic labour supply, scholars have commonly pointed to the nation’s extremely restrictive, ethno-nationalist policies as an antithetical case against which traditional migration states can be compared. Applying an approach focused on the viewpoint of the state, I argue that in response to market pressures, Japan …
Regulating membership and movement at the meso-level
This paper analyzes how East Asian states have regulated membership and migration through meso-level institutions. Specifically, we examine how states have used the household registration system (China’s hukou system, South Korea’s hoju/hojeok system, and Japan’s koseki system) in the process of nation-state building in the early post-World War Two period, as a security measure to control movement throughout the Cold War, and as a tool to build o…
Workers, Neighbours, or Something Else? Local Policies and Policy Narratives of Technical Intern Training Program Participants
Local governments at the prefectural and municipal levels across Japan have begun to allocate discretionary public funds to educate employers about the recruitment process for foreign Technical Training Internship Program (TITP) workers and subsidize the paperwork fees associated with it. This article investigates this phenomenon by drawing upon data collected from correspondence with municipal officials and analysis of policy documents, as well …
Migration governance in East and Southeast Asia
This article explains migration governance in East and Southeast Asia by comparing guestworker programs that have institutionalized labor migration flows between Southeast Asian countries (especially Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam) and the two largest Northeast Asian recipients of labor migration, Japan and South Korea. It demonstrates how these programs have led to heightened competition for skilled labor between countries of destinatio…
The developmental migration state
What drives some states to liberalise immigration policies while others resist doing so? Why do states expand rights for some migrants and not for others? Building on Hollifield’s [(2004). ‘The Emerging Migration State’. International Migration Review 38 (3): 885–912] theory of the migration state, this article explores how the process of political economic development in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan shaped their citizenship regimes and, later,…
Maintaining sovereignty at the margins
Using policy and discourse analysis, as well as fieldwork across several island localities in Okinawa, I argue that Japan’s contemporary security strategy in Okinawa is not limited to exercising effective jurisdiction over territorial and maritime boundaries but also to incentivise the desirable movement of people and economic activity as a means of sustaining habitation of Japan’s remote border areas. In other words, internal migration governanc…
Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · China (2 works)