Migration Governance in Asia (PDF)

Kazunari Sakai is Professor at the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University, Japan. Awarded MA from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1994 and PhD from Kobe University in 2007. After working for the Ministry of Education of Japan and Tokyo Institute of Technology, he joined Kobe University as an academic member. He stayed as invited professor at Sciences Po Paris, Université Paris Nanterre and Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II. His research focuses on the EU's external relations with neigbouring countries, migration issues across the Mediterranean Sea, and global governance related to migration.

Noemi Lanna is Associate Professor at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" where she teaches "Modern and Contemporary History of Japan" and "Japan in the international system". She holds a Master of Arts in Social Sciences (Hitotsubashi University) and a PhD in Asian studies (University of Naples "L'Orientale"). She served as a postgraduate Monbukagakusho fellow at Hitotsubashi University (1998-2000), a "visiting PhD candidate" at the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003-2004), visiting professor of the KUPES Programme, Kobe University (2016), and visiting professor for the Erasmus staff mobility for teaching programme at Ruhr Universität Bochum (2019). Her research interests focus on international history of East Asia and on modern and contemporary history of Japan, with particular reference to postwar intellectual history.