Ruth Achenbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 5815292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Achenbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Achenbach |
| SIGNATURE | ACHENBACH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5249-9703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between Stuckness and Agency
This qualitative, interview-based study analyzes staying aspirations of two groups of Chinese top-level international students (a pre-1989 and a post-1989 cohort) in Japan and Singapore. Graduates experience immobility and “stuckness” in their migratory trajectories for a variety of reasons outlined in the paper. In line with de Haas’ aspirations-capabilities model, the paper traces the agency of graduates in their locational decisions and their …
Japanese Labour Migrants in Germany
This paper examines how and when Japanese labour migrants use the offers of various migration industry actors in their migration to Germany. The ways in which Japanese university‐educated migrants utilise services vary considerably depending on their entry channel, point in the migratory trajectory, migrant capital, and migratory goals. This paper places the individual and their interaction with migration infrastructure and industries at the cent…
Afrasian Transformations
Stephen Robert Nagy, Japan’s demographic revival
Stephen Robert Nagy, Japan’s demographic revival: Rethinking migration, identity, and sociocultural norms." Contemporary Japan, 29(1), pp. 101–102
Return Migration Decisions
Having it all” – at what cost? Strategies of Chinese highly skilled women in Japan to combine career and family
Being both foreign and female, Chinese highly skilled women face double discrimination in corporate Japan. Yet this study argues that due to their transnational networks and expertise they turn unfavorable circumstances for work-family balance into strategies to improve work-career compatibility to a degree still unattainable for many Japanese women. While outcomes thus seem rosy from a labor market perspective, these strategies come at a cost bo…
Having it all” – at what cost? Strategies of Chinese highly skilled women in Japan to combine career and family
Being both foreign and female, Chinese highly skilled women face double discrimination in corporate Japan. Yet this study argues that due to their transnational networks and expertise they turn unfavorable circumstances for work-family balance into strategies to improve work-career compatibility to a degree still unattainable for many Japanese women. While outcomes thus seem rosy from a labor market perspective, these strategies come at a cost bo…
Having it all” – at what cost? Strategies of Chinese highly skilled women in Japan to combine career and family
Being both foreign and female, Chinese highly skilled women face double discrimination in corporate Japan. Yet this study argues that due to their transnational networks and expertise they turn unfavorable circumstances for work-family balance into strategies to improve work-career compatibility to a degree still unattainable for many Japanese women. While outcomes thus seem rosy from a labor market perspective, these strategies come at a cost bo…
Return Migration Decisions
Stephen Robert Nagy, Japan’s demographic revival
Stephen Robert Nagy, Japan’s demographic revival: Rethinking migration, identity, and sociocultural norms." Contemporary Japan, 29(1), pp. 101–102
Afrasian Transformations
Between Stuckness and Agency
This qualitative, interview-based study analyzes staying aspirations of two groups of Chinese top-level international students (a pre-1989 and a post-1989 cohort) in Japan and Singapore. Graduates experience immobility and “stuckness” in their migratory trajectories for a variety of reasons outlined in the paper. In line with de Haas’ aspirations-capabilities model, the paper traces the agency of graduates in their locational decisions and their …
Japanese Labour Migrants in Germany
This paper examines how and when Japanese labour migrants use the offers of various migration industry actors in their migration to Germany. The ways in which Japanese university‐educated migrants utilise services vary considerably depending on their entry channel, point in the migratory trajectory, migrant capital, and migratory goals. This paper places the individual and their interaction with migration infrastructure and industries at the cent…
Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 works) · Business (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (2 works) · Perspective (graphical (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Affect (linguistics) (1 work)