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Igarashi Akira

五十嵐　彰

Graduate School of Human Sciences　Human Sciences, Associate Professor

keyword multiculturalism，immigrants，Social attitudes，Intergroup relations

Education

  • 2016/04 - 2019/03, Tohoku University, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Department of Behavioral Science
  • 2013/09 - 2015/06, Utrecht University, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Science, Migration, Ethnic Relations, and Multiculturalism programme

Research History

  • 2021/10 - 2022/12, Osaka University, Department of Human Sciences, Lecturer
  • 2019/04 - 2021/09, Rikkyo University, Center for Statistics and Information, Assistant professor
  • 2018/05 - 2020/06, The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry
  • 2017/04 - 2019/03, Research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences, Sociology

Professional Memberships

  • JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR MATHEMATICAL SOCIOLOGY
  • JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR MIGRATION POLICY STUDIES

Papers

  • Detecting Employment Discrimination of Immigrants in Japan Using Survey Experiments: A Study of Heterogeneity in Discrimination between Firms, Akira Igarashi,Ryota Mugiyama, Sociological Theory and Methods, Vol. 38, No. 1, p. 44-58, 2023/09
  • Whose tastes matter? Discrimination against immigrants in the Japanese labour market, Akira Igarashi,Ryota Mugiyama, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Informa UK Limited, Vol. 49, No. 13, p. 3365-3388, 2023/07
  • Compatibility of ethnic and national identifications under multicultural policies, Akira Igarashi, International Migration, Wiley, Vol. 61, No. 3, p. 373-389, 2023/06
  • Neoliberal ideology and negative attitudes toward immigrants: Evidence from a survey and survey experiment in Japan, Akira Igarashi,Yoshikuni Ono, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Wiley, Vol. 52, No. 12, p. 1146-1157, 2022/12
  • How Do Racial Cues Affect Attitudes toward Immigrants in a Racially Homogeneous Country? Evidence from a survey experiment in Japan, Akira Igarashi,Hirofumi Miwa,Yoshikuni Ono, 2022/09
  • How do initial migrants choose their locations?: Interregional migration in Japan from 1899 to 1938, Akira Igarashi, Journal of Regional Science, Wiley, Vol. 62, No. 4, p. 1032-1047, 2022/09
  • The Dynamics of Immigration and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in Japan: How and Why Changes in Immigrant Share Affect Attitudes toward Immigration in a Newly Diversifying Society, James Laurence,Akira Igarashi,Kenji Ishida, Social Forces, Vol. 101, No. 1, p. 369-403, 2022/09
  • The effects of negative and positive information on attitudes towards immigration, Akira Igarashi,Yoshikuni Ono, International Migration, Vol. 60, No. 4, p. 137-149, 2022/08
  • Who Should Call for Advocacies? The Influence of Rights Advocates on the Public's Attitude Toward Immigrants’ Voting Rights in Japan, Akira Igarashi,Yoshikuni Ono, Journal of East Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 22, No. 3, p. 1-12, 2022/06/20
  • Why do citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? Identifying causal mechanisms of immigration preferences with a survey experiment, Akira Igarashi,Hirofumi Miwa,Yoshikuni Ono, Research & Politics, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2022/04
  • Japanese Attitudes Toward Immigrants' Voting Rights: Evidence from Survey Experiments, Akira Igarashi,Yoshikuni Ono, RIETI Discussion Paper, 2022/02
  • Norms to be prejudiced: List experiments on attitudes towards immigrants in Japan, Akira Igarashi,Kikuko Nagayoshi, Social Science Research, Vol. 102, 2022/01
  • Threats and norms: Multicultural policies and natives’ attitudes towards immigrants, Akira Igarashi, The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 3, p. 426-448, 2022/01
  • Why Do Citizens Prefer Highly Skilled Immigrants to Low-Skilled Immigrants? Identifying Causal Mechanisms of Immigration Preferences with a Survey Experiment, Akira Igarashi,Hirofumi Miwa,Yoshikuni Ono, RIETI Discussion Paper, 2021/06
  • How does immigration affect anti-immigrant sentiment, and who is affected most? A Longitudinal Analysis of the UK and Japan cases, Comparative Migration Studies, Vol. 9, p. 1-26, 2021/06
  • Hate begets hate: Anti-refugee violence increases anti-refugee attitudes in Germany, Akira Igarashi, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 44, No. 11, p. 1914-1934, 2021/06
  • The Effects of Negative and Positive Information on Attitudes toward Immigration, Akira Igarashi,Yoshikuni Ono, RIETIディスカッション・ペーパー, 2020/03
  • Neoliberalism and Negative Attitudes toward Immigrants, Akira Igarashi,Yoshikuni Ono, RIETI Discussion Paper Series, 2019/10
  • Till multiculturalism do us part: Multicultural policies and the national identification of immigrants in European countries, Akira Igarashi, Social Science Research, Vol. 77, No. 1, p. 88-100, 2019
  • Who cheats?, Akira Igarashi, Japanese Journal of Family Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 2, p. 185-196, 2018
  • Territorial conflicts and Japanese attitudes towards East Asian countries: Natural experiments with foreigners’ landings on disputed islands, Akira Igarashi, Political Psychology, Vol. 39, No. 4, p. 977-992, 2018
  • A Consensual Hierarchy of the Definitions of Japanese: Application of Mokken Scale Analysis, Akira Igarashi, Sociological Theory and Methods, Japanese Association For Mathematical Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 2, p. 293-306, 2015
  • The Influence of Integration Policies of Immigrants on Attitudes towards Immigrants: Multilevel Analysis with 22 European countries, Akira Igarashi, Sociologos, Vol. 39, No. 39, p. 31-44, 2015
  • Consensual Ethnic Hierarchies among the East Asians: Mokken Scale Analysis with EASS 2008, Akira Igarashi, JGSS Research Series, Vol. 15, p. 41-50, 2015

Misc.

  • Beyond Language Proficiency: Understanding the Role of National Identification in Shaping Attitudes toward Immigrants, Akira Igarashi,Charles Crabtree,Yoshikuni Ono, 2024/03
  • Citizens’ Attitudes toward the Protection of Immigrants’ Human Rights: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in the Netherlands, Akira Igarashi,Ryo Nakai,Yoshikuni Ono, Waseda Institute of Political Economy Working Paper Series, 2023/03
  • データアーカイブにおけるDDIの意義と課題：RUDAの実践を事例として, 髙橋かおり,五十嵐彰, 社会と調査, Vol. 27, 2021/09
  • 移民の日本に対する帰属意識, 五十嵐彰, 「くらしと仕事に関する外国籍市民調査」報告書（JSPS科研費若手研究（A）成果報告書）, p. 94-106, 2020/06
  • 『日本帝国統計年鑑』を電子化しての雑感, 五十嵐彰, 社会と統計, Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 55-64, 2020/01
  • （文献紹介）林雄亮（編）『青少年の性行動はどう変わってきたか:全国調査にみる40年間』, 五十嵐彰, 家族社会学研究, Vol. 31, No. 1, p. 94-94, 2019/04
  • 介護福祉士としての外国人増加に対する認識の規定要因, 五十嵐彰, 国際化と政治に関する市民意識調査（JSPS科研費基盤研究（B）成果報告書）, p. 1-11, 2017/05
  • (Un)importance of prior contact with secondary groups in the secondary transfer effect, Akira Igarashi, p. 88-98, 2016

Publications

  • 家族社会学事典, 丸善出版, 2023/12
  • Extramarital sex, Akira Igarashi,Sayaka Sakoda, 中公新書, 2023/01
  • Handbook of Economic Nationalism, Nana Oishi,Akira Igarashi, Elgar, 2022/10
  • 日本の移民統合―全国調査から見る現況と障壁, 明石書店, 2021/06
  • 日本人は右傾化したのか: データ分析で実像を読み解く, 五十嵐彰, 勁草書房, 2019/09
  • 移民政策とは何か：日本の現実から考える, 五十嵐彰,永吉希久子, 人文書院, 2019/04

Awards

  • Social Science Japan Data Archive Best Paper Award, Akira Igarashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo., 2019/02

Presentations

  • 歴史教科書は将来の政治的信条に影響するのか, 加藤晋,五十嵐彰,マッケルウェイン・ケネス・盛, 第75回数理社会学会大会, 2023/08/25
  • Why Do Nationalists Support Migration?: Structural Economic Nationalism and Multicultural Transformation in Japan, Nana Oishi,Akira Igarashi, XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, 2023/06/26
  • アメリカ⼤統領選における分極化とリベラル化：投票⾏動への Kitagawa 要因分解の応⽤, 五十嵐彰,齋藤僚介, 第74回数理社会学会大会, 2023/03/07
  • 移⺠の社会関係が排外主義に与える影響, 五十嵐彰,Mathew J. Creighton, 第73回数理社会学会大会, 2022/08/27
  • 移民の人権は守られるのか：オランダにおけるビネット実験, 五十嵐彰,中井遼,尾野嘉邦, Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science 2022 Summer Meeting, 2022/07/08
  • 移民の日本に対する帰属意識―水準と規定要因―, 五十嵐彰, 移民政策学会2022年度年次大会, 2022
  • イスラム教国におけるムスリム移民に対する態度ーカザフスタンにおけるコンジョイント実験ー, 東島雅昌,五十嵐彰,ユジンウ, 第71回数理社会学会大会, 2021/09/05
  • Discrimination against immigrants in the Japanese labour market: Factorial survey approaches, Akira Igarashi,Ryota Mugiyama, The 116th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2021/08/10
  • 日本企業は外国人を差別しているか ──サーベイ実験による検証──, 五十嵐彰,麦山亮太, 第70回数理社会学会大会, 2021/03/09
  • 履歴書実験において人事を対象にする必要はあるのか, 五十嵐彰,麦山亮太, 第 70 回数理社会学会大会, 2021/03/08
  • Why Do Natives Prefer High-Skilled Immigrants to Low-Skilled Immigrants? Identifying Causal Mechanisms of Immigrant Preference with A Survey Experiment, Akira Igarashi,Hirofumi Miwa,Yoshikuni Ono, 2021 Winter Meeting of the Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science, 2021/01/10
  • Interregional Migration from 1899 to 1938 in Japan, The 93rd annual meeting of Japanese Sociological Association, 2020/10/31
  • 反差別規範の普及に関するリスト実験, 五十嵐彰,永吉希久子, 第69回数理社会学会大会, 2020/09/22
  • Religion or Criminalisation? Multicultural policies and (non-) Muslim immigrants’ attitudes towards homosexuality, The 116th American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting, 2020/09/13
  • Multiculturalism and Muslim Immigrants’ Attitudes Towards Homosexuality, The 115th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2020/08/12
  • Why Do People Develop Ethnic Hierarchy? Perceptions of American and Chinese Immigrants in Japan, Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2020 (Cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak), 2020/04/25
  • Threats and Norms: Multicultural Policies and Natives' Attitudes Toward Immigrants in European Countries, Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2020 (Cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak), 2020/04/25
  • Fear and Hoping in Japan: How Immigration Impacts Social and Cultural Life in a Lower-Diversity Society, James Laurence,Akira Igarashi, International Symposium on New and old migrations and diversities in UK and Japan, 2019/12/03
  • Neoliberalism and negative attitudes toward immigrants, Akira Igarashi, The 23rd Experimental Social Science Conference, 2019/11/30
  • 移民の心理的統合―在日外国人の社会統合に関する研究（4）, 五十嵐彰, 第92回日本社会学会大会, 2019/10/05
  • Neoliberalism and exclusionism: Study with survey experiments, Akira Igarashi,Yoshikuni Ono, The 68th meeting of Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology, 2019/08/30
  • The Effects of Threats and Benefits of Immigrants on Public Opinion, Akira Igarashi,Yoshikuni Ono, The 115th American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting, 2019/08/29
  • 外国籍者の社会階層に関する全国調査の試み, 永吉希久子,竹ノ下弘久,五十嵐彰,木原盾, 移民政策学会2019年度年次大会, 2019/05/26
  • Compatibility of ethnic and national identification under multicultural policies, Akira Igarashi, The 4th European Social Survey conference, 2019/04/17
  • The effects of benefits and threats of immigrants on public opinion, Akira Igarashi,Yoshikuni Ono, The 77th Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, 2019/04/07
  • Public opinion: How exclusionism of immigrants is justified., Akira Igarashi,Kikuko Nagayoshi, The problems of Japanese immigrant policies, 2019/02/11
  • Threats and Benefits of Immigrants, Akira Igarashi,Yoshikuni Ono, The 6th Asian Political Methodology Meeting, 2019/01/05
  • Segregation, threats, and prejudice against immigrants in Japan, Akira Igarashi, The 14th Asia-Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, 2018/10/07
  • Segregation, threats, and xenophobia, Akira Igarashi, The 91st annual conference of the Japanese Sociological Association, 2018/09/16
  • The influence of hate crimes against refugees on Germans' attitudes towards refugees, Akira Igarashi, The 66th annual conference of the Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology, 2018/08/31
  • Compatibility of Ethnic and National Identifications under Multicultural Policies, Akira Igarashi, The 113th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2018/08/11
  • Residential segregation, threats, and xenophobia, Akira Igarashi, The 65th Tohoku Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2018/07/16
  • Hate begets hate: Anti-refugee violence increases anti-refugee attitudes, Akira Igarashi, The 41st Annual Conference of International Society of Political Psychology, 2018/07/07
  • Territorial Conflicts and Japanese Attitudes Towards East Asian Countries: Natural Experiments with Foreigners' Landings on Disputed Islands, Akira Igarashi, Japanese Association of Electoral Studies 2018 Annual Conference, 2018/05/13
  • Hate begets hate: Anti-refugee violence increases anti-refugee attitudes, Akira Igarashi, The 5th Joint Seminar on Asian Agenda for Young Scholars from China, Japan & Korea, 2018/05/03
  • Why we don't like multiculturalism, or do we?, Akira Igarashi, The 1st Conference of the Comparative Social Research Network, 2018/01/27
  • The Group Threat Theory and Support for Anti-Koreans and Chinese Associations in Japan, Akira Igarashi, 1st International Workshop on Hate Speech in Asia and Europe, 2018/01/17
  • Compatible Identifications: Immigrants' ethnic and national identifications under multicultural policies, Akira Igarashi, 2017/12/03
  • Multicultural policies and immigrants' national identification, Akira Igarashi, The 90th annual conference for the Japan Sociological Society, 2017/11/05
  • Till Multiculturalism Do Us Part: Multicultural Policies and National Identification of Immigrants in European Countries, Akira Igarashi, 4th Annual BAGSS conference, 2017/09/21
  • divorce/bereavement and economic threats against foreigners, Akira Igarashi,Takafumi Ito, The 64th annual conference of the Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology, 2017/09/17
  • Infidelity and Resourcefulness: Determinants and Gender Differences, Akira Igarashi, The 27th conference for Japan Society for Family Sociology, 2017/09/10
  • Territorial Conflict and Japanese Attitudes towards East Asian Countries: A Natural Experiment In Event: 394 - Regular Session. Ethnic Conflict in a Global Context, Akira Igarashi, The 112th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2017/08/14
  • Until multiculturalism do us apart: National identity of the majority and ethnic minorities, Akira Igarashi, The 3rd East Asian conference for young sociologists, 2017/02/06
  • Political Interest, Discriminatory Attitudes, and Anti-hate Speech Policy in Japan: a Selection of Regions for Comparison based on Google Search, Akira Igarashi, The 89th Japan Sociological Society annual meeting, 2016/10/08
  • The persistent effects of anti-Japan movements on the Japanese's attitudes towards China, Akira Igarashi, The 62th Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology meeting, 2016/08/27
  • Why do immigrant integration policies improve the majority's attitudes towards immigrants? Intergroup contact, social norms, and symbolic boundaries, Akira Igarashi, The 63th Tohoku Sociological Association meeting, 2016/07/30
  • Political Interest, Discriminatory Attitudes, and Anti-hate Speech Policy in Japan: a Selection of Regions for Comparison based on Google Search, Akira Igarashi, Japan Association for Migration Policy studies 2016 annual meeting, 2016/05/29
  • The introduction of jus soli in Germany and Germans' ethnonationalism: Empirical analysis of Brubaker's hypothesis, Akira Igarashi, The 61th Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology meeting, 2016/03/17
  • The Most Effective Combination of Anti-discrimination Policies to Reduce Discrimination: An Application of Sparse Partial Least Squares, Akira Igarashi, The 2nd East Asian Conference for Young Sociologists, 2016/02/01
  • The Most Effective Combination of Anti-discrimination Policies to Reduce Discrimination”, Akira Igarashi, Japan Association for Migration Policy studies 2015 Winter conference, 2015/12/12
  • Exploring Disparities in Subjective Discrimination Assessments: A Comparative Vignette Experiment between Humans and ChatGPT, Akira Igarashi,Yoshinobu Kano,Hirofumi Miwa, Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science 2023 Summer Meeting, 2023/06/24

Committee Memberships

  • Sociological Research Online, Editorial board, 2023/07 - Present
  • Frontiers in Sociology, 査読編集委員, 2019/12 - Present
  • 東北社会学会, 編集委員, 2017/10 - 2019/10

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