N Hashimoto
Biographic Data
| ID | 413357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Hashimoto |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Hashimoto |
| SIGNATURE | HASHIMOTO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University/Refugee Law Initiative, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9830-8924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
When the best is the enemy of the good
After more than 2 years of intense public debate, controversy, and nationwide protests, the Amendment Bill on Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (ICRRA) was passed into law by the Japanese Diet in June 2023 and took full effect in June 2024. The Bill contained problematic proposals regarding asylum, detention, and deportation, receiving harsh national and international criticism. The legislative negotiation process saw a real possibi…
Refugees have power and strength
National burden of gambling in Japan
The study highlighted the prevention paradox of gambling in Japan. While national gambling policies primarily focus on the prevention and intervention for high-risk gamblers, a more effective approach would involve minimizing GRH across the entire population
Economic self-reliance or social relations? What works in refugee integration? Learning from resettlement programmes in Japan and the UK
There is an urgent need to expand the scale and scope of refugee resettlement schemes, and yet country approaches to resettlement vary markedly and there is little cross-country learning from approaches and refugee experiences. In Japan, resettlement focuses on economic self-sufficiency through employment; whereas the UK, through Community Sponsorship volunteers, on providing social connections to facilitate integration. This paper explores the s…
Chinese Refugee Law and Policy
Dr Lili Song’s book—Chinese Refugee Law and Policy—is one of the first monographs written on the subject by native Chinese scholars with expertise on international refugee law. It is a concise and easy-to-follow read, yet contains systematic, well-organized, and careful analysis of refugee law and policy in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. It not only facilitates a better understanding of how forced migrants are protected and assisted in the…
Refugee Resettlement as an Alternative to Asylum
Despite the importance of refugee resettlement being frequently emphasised, there is only a limited amount of empirical research on why an increasing number and variety of States admit refugees through resettlement, when it is not an obligation under international law. This article first sets out the four traditional perspectives on States’ motives for resettlement, based on well-established theories of International Relations, namely egoistic se…
Refugee Resettlement as an Alternative to Asylum
Despite the importance of refugee resettlement being frequently emphasised, there is only a limited amount of empirical research on why an increasing number and variety of States admit refugees through resettlement, when it is not an obligation under international law. This article first sets out the four traditional perspectives on States’ motives for resettlement, based on well-established theories of International Relations, namely egoistic se…
Economic self-reliance or social relations? What works in refugee integration? Learning from resettlement programmes in Japan and the UK
There is an urgent need to expand the scale and scope of refugee resettlement schemes, and yet country approaches to resettlement vary markedly and there is little cross-country learning from approaches and refugee experiences. In Japan, resettlement focuses on economic self-sufficiency through employment; whereas the UK, through Community Sponsorship volunteers, on providing social connections to facilitate integration. This paper explores the s…
Refugee Resettlement as an Alternative to Asylum
Despite the importance of refugee resettlement being frequently emphasised, there is only a limited amount of empirical research on why an increasing number and variety of States admit refugees through resettlement, when it is not an obligation under international law. This article first sets out the four traditional perspectives on States’ motives for resettlement, based on well-established theories of International Relations, namely egoistic se…
Economic self-reliance or social relations? What works in refugee integration? Learning from resettlement programmes in Japan and the UK
There is an urgent need to expand the scale and scope of refugee resettlement schemes, and yet country approaches to resettlement vary markedly and there is little cross-country learning from approaches and refugee experiences. In Japan, resettlement focuses on economic self-sufficiency through employment; whereas the UK, through Community Sponsorship volunteers, on providing social connections to facilitate integration. This paper explores the s…
Chinese Refugee Law and Policy
Dr Lili Song’s book—Chinese Refugee Law and Policy—is one of the first monographs written on the subject by native Chinese scholars with expertise on international refugee law. It is a concise and easy-to-follow read, yet contains systematic, well-organized, and careful analysis of refugee law and policy in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. It not only facilitates a better understanding of how forced migrants are protected and assisted in the…
National burden of gambling in Japan
The study highlighted the prevention paradox of gambling in Japan. While national gambling policies primarily focus on the prevention and intervention for high-risk gamblers, a more effective approach would involve minimizing GRH across the entire population
When the best is the enemy of the good
After more than 2 years of intense public debate, controversy, and nationwide protests, the Amendment Bill on Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (ICRRA) was passed into law by the Japanese Diet in June 2023 and took full effect in June 2024. The Bill contained problematic proposals regarding asylum, detention, and deportation, receiving harsh national and international criticism. The legislative negotiation process saw a real possibi…
Refugees have power and strength
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Refugee (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Refugee law (2 works)