Basic Information

Faculty

• Faculty of Law
• Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (ILAS)

Email Address

• Email Address

  tian.yunchen.4nkyoto-u.ac.jp

Professional Memberships

• Taiwanese Political Science Association
• Association for Asian Studies
• International Political Science Association
• アジア政経学会
• Japanese Association for Migration Studies
• Japanese Association for Migration Policy Studies

Academic Degree

• 21 May 2020

  ジョンズ・ホプキンス大学修士（政治学）
• 26 Aug. 2022

  ジョンズ・ホプキンス大学博士（政治学）

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Political Science, College of Literature, Sciences, and Arts, 卒業

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0002-5681-6936

• J-Global ID

  201901004201209294

• Researcher number

  81034410

• External link

  https://tianyunchen.com

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/tianyunchen

Research

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences, Local studies, Migration Policy, Migrant Labor Policy
• Humanities & social sciences, Politics

Papers

• The developmental migration state

  Erin Aeran Chung; Darcie Draudt; Yunchen Tian

  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 28 Jul. 2026

  
• Migration governance in East and Southeast Asia

  Erin Chung; James F Hollifield; Yunchen Tian

  International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 15 Sep. 2023, Peer-reviewed

  
• Maintaining sovereignty at the margins: internal migration governance in Okinawa

  Yunchen Tian

  Territory, Politics, Governance, 17 Feb. 2026, Peer-reviewed

  
• Workers, Neighbours, or Something Else? Local Policies and Policy Narratives of Technical Intern Training Program Participants

  Yunchen TIAN

  Social Science Japan Journal, 28 Apr. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Book Review: Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society

  Yunchen Tian

  International Migration Review, Mar. 2022, Invited, Corresponding author

  
• Regulating membership and movement at the meso-level: citizen-making and the household registration system in East Asia

  Erin Aeran Chung; Darcie Draudt; Yunchen Tian

  Citizenship Studies, 02 Jan. 2020, Peer-reviewed, Invited

  
• Workers by any other name: comparing co-ethnics and ‘interns’ as labour migrants to Japan

  Yunchen Tian

  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 04 Jul. 2019, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  

Education

Teaching subject(s)

• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  ILAS Seminar-E2

  Z002, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Introduction to Political Science-E2

  H960, Fall, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  State and Civil Society II-E2

  H959, Fall, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  State and Civil Society I-E2

  H958, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2