Sara Park

Biographic Data

ID3833034
NAMESara Park
GIVEN NAMESSara
FAMILY NAMEPark
SIGNATUREPARK S
AFFILIATIONSKyoto University
ORCID0000-0002-7441-2433
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Passport regulation and the materialization of Japan’s homogeneity myth: Multiple nationalities in Japan, 1985–2025

    Open AccessPark, Sara ParkARTICLECritical Sociology2026

    This article examines how the Japanese government administratively manages dual nationality to maintain the ideological fiction of ethnic homogeneity. While the Japanese passport grants high visa-free access, this privilege is conditional upon adhering to a singular, mono-ethnic definition of nationality. Drawing on a longitudinal qualitative analysis of newsletters (1980–2025) from the Japan Association of Intercultural Families, the study docum…

  • Mobility and immobility of migrants and non-migrants

    Open AccessHideo Aoki, Park et al.ARTICLECritical Sociology2026References: 5

  • Europe as model, mirror, and mirage: Asian eyes on migration, policy, and symbolic geographies

    Open AccessPark, Sara ParkARTICLEAsian and Pacific migration journal2025

  • Finding out the Differences: Identification of Koreans in Colonial Korea and Discrimination as Exclusion

    Open AccessSara Park, S K ParkARTICLEJapanese Sociological Review2024

    本論文は,排除の一形態としての差別に焦点を当て,植民地期朝鮮における朝鮮人と日本人との差異に関する知識の産出過程を分析の対象とする.差別が排除を伴うことは先行研究から指摘されており,差異が差別の根拠ではないことも指摘される一方で,差異と差別との関係は十分に記述されてきたとは言いがたい.そのため,本論文では差別と差異との関係を,日本の植民地支配期における朝鮮人と日本人との差異に関する知識を生み出した条件とその知識の用いられ方から論じることを試みた.朝鮮人を身体的・文化的に日本人と異なるものとして識別する知識は,植民地朝鮮における政策を実行するために必要とされた慣習の調査や,日本人の民族的起源を明らかにしようとする人類学的試みの中から生まれてきた.また日本へ移住した朝鮮人労働者は,民族差別のために劣悪な環境で労働せざるをえなかったが,大正期に発展した社会行政は朝鮮人コミュニティを行政が対策を打つべき問題とみなした.他方で,朝鮮人と日本人との差異が常に明らかでないことや,朝鮮人が日本人に類似し…

  • Dialogues: Decolonizing anthropology in/with Japan

    Open AccessSachiko Kubota, Shuhei Kimura et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2024Cited by: 1References: 15

    A dialogue with Sachiko Kibota, President of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology

  • Colonialism and Sisterhood: Japanese Female Activists and the 'Comfort Women' Issue

    Open AccessSara ParkARTICLECritical Sociology2021References: 6

    This article clarifies how wartime/colonial responsibility and sisterhood are mediated in the accounts of Japanese female activists who support so-called 'comfort women' or the Japanese military sexual slavery issue, by using interviews of Japanese female activists, this article tries to answer this question. The Japanese female activists experience the changes in the their identities from collective 'women' and/or 'Japanese' while they continue …

  • Inventing aliens: Immigration control, 'xenophobia' and racism in Japan

    Open AccessPark, Sara ParkARTICLERace & Class2017Cited by: 2

    This paper, which examines a growing problem of popular racism in Japan against ethnic minorities, especially Koreans, is critical of the way in which it is often being passed off as xenophobia. The author argues that to confront the current racism means coming to terms with Japan's colonial past and also the immigration control system which labels all ethnic minorities, including those born in Japan during and following imperial conquest, as 'fo…

  • “Who Are You?”: The Making of Korean “Illegal Entrants” in Occupied Japan 1945–1952

    Open AccessPark, Sara ParkARTICLEInternational Journal of Japanese…2016

    Recent progress in the study of migration history in Japan has cast new light on the influx of Koreans to Japan just after the end of the Second World War in August 1945. Both the Japanese Government and the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers called this migration illegal entry or smuggling, and tried to suppress it., One important question remains to be solved about this migration; namely; how was it prohibited? Before the Immigration Contr…

  • David Lyon, Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance

    Open AccessPark, Sara ParkARTICLEInternational Sociology2013