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OHASHI, Fumie

2023年6月27日更新

Research Areas

Gender Studies, Contemporary China Studies, Transnational/Transcultural Sociology

Education and Research Profile

The United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing in 1995, when I was a high school student, and this sparked an interest in China for me. It seemed strange that despite the close proximity of the country to Japan, and the fact that such a large international conference had been held there, it wasn’t possible to observe the nature of gender relations among people in China in media reports or the like at that time. Accordingly, I decided to study this area myself. 

After entering graduate school, I turned my attention to the existence of domestic workers from rural households who were working in urban areas of China. As well as using life history interviews to identify the impacts of China’s introduction of a market economy in the 1990s and integration into the global economy in the 2000s on the lives of women who had migrated from rural to urban areas, my research considered what manner of policy and institutional transformations had led to a structure whereby the life of urban dwellers is supported by the reproductive labor of rural women. I had many opportunities through the fieldwork process to come into contact with the grassroots feminist activism that has spread throughout China since the World Conference on Women. I feel that my interests as a teenager have led into my life as a researcher thereafter.

Over the past decade, I have been interested not only in China but also in the situations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, looking at issues relating to migration and gender in East Asia in the context of globalization (in particular, the migration of women as domestic workers, care workers, and sex workers, or following international marriages). I am also interested in cross-border women’s movements in East Asia (including international domestic worker solidarity and civil movements relating to the problem of wartime sexual violence by the Japanese military).

In the courses that I teach, we will predominantly deal with issues related to globalization and gender, but I would also like to actively consider intersectionality (the complex problem of the intersection of discrimination and repression across multiple categories such as gender, sexuality, class, race, and dis/ability) in particular. The courses adopt a style of learning through dialogue with fellow participants, with lectures and exercises both involving a great deal of group work and discussion.

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