Political Science Faculty and Staff
Deborah J. Milly
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1990
Ph.D., Yale University, 1990
Her teaching and research interests include Japanese politics; social movements; the politics of immigration; comparative public policy; comparative social policy; institutional change; and comparative and regional Asian political economy. Her book, Poverty, Equality, and Growth: The Politics of Economic Need in Postwar Japan (Harvard University Asia Council, 1999, distributed by Harvard University Press; paperback, 2002) received the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2000. Her current research interests include Japanese responses to increased immigration, comparative and global responses to international migration, and comparative patterns of interaction between state and civil society actors. She has held fellowships from the Abe Fellowship Program (1995-1996) and from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2001) to pursue research on these topics. She has presented papers on the subject at international meetings and numerous seminars and is author of “The Rights of Foreign Migrant Workers in Asia: Contrasting Bases for Expanded Protections” in Ole Bruun and Michael Jacobsen, eds., Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia (Curzon Press, 2000) and “Policy Advocacy for Foreign Residents in Japan” in Takeyuki Tsuda, ed., Local Citizenship in Recent Countries of Immigration: Japan in Comparative Perspective (2006). Her current main writing project, “The State, Immigrants, and Advocacy in Asia and Europe,” is a book-length study that places in comparative context the institutional and policy changes brought about by grass-roots nongovernmental advocates in Japan on behalf of foreign residents who have settled since the 1980s. In this volume, she compares developments in Japan with parallel developments in Korea, Spain, and Italy. Having served for four years as Director of Graduate Studies, she will be on sabbatical for the 2006-2007 academic year to devote herself to her research and writing.
Email: Deborah J. Milly