SIOBARA Yoshikazu

     Affiliation

      Faculty of Law, Keio University, Professor

    Field of study

        Sociology of Social Change, Muticulturalism studies, Australian Studies

     Rsearch Interest

　Yoshikazu Shiobara focuses on multicultural societies in Australia and Japan as his primary research fields. He analyses official discourses and policies on multiculturalism and conducts fieldwork on the Japanese migrants in Australia. He also undertakes critical analyses of the principles and discourses on Tabunka Kyōsei in Japan, whilst continuing to engage in practical research into support for migrant background youths in Japan. From a theoretical perspective, he is interested in reconstructing theories of multiculturalism from a multi-realist perspective.

    Recent Works

Iori Hamada, Takeshi Hamano and Yoshikazu Shiobara (eds.), 2025, Japanese Migrations to Australia: Transformation and Heterogeneity Routledge.

Yoshikazu Shiobara, 2024, "The Changing Implications of ‘Tabunka Kyōsei in Regional Societies’: The Confused Reformation of Official Concepts of Multicultural Coliving in Japan in the 2010s," Japanese Studies 44 （ 2 ） 229 - 248.

Yoshikazu Shiobara, Kohei Kawabata and Joel Matthews, eds., 2019, Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan: Rethinking Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion Routledge.

    Website

       https://www.k-ris.keio.ac.jp/html/100000880_en.html