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Ooi Yuki (Family Name: Ooi, First Name: Yuki)
Current Affiliation
Department of British and American Studies
Faculty of Foreign Studies
Nanzan University
Research and Teaching Interests
American Immigration Policy (exclusion laws), Overseas Chinese, Maritime History, Tourism
Degrees Received
Ph.D. in Sociology, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
M.A. in Social Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
M.A. in Sociology, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
B.A. in Area Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan
Academic Appointments
2012-Present Associate Professor, Nanzan University, Naogya, Japan
2009-2012 Assistant Professor, Nanzan University, Naogya, Japan
2007-2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Tokyo, Japan
2005-2007 Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Tokyo, Japan
2003 Research Assistant, National Institute for Research Advancement, Tokyo, Japan
Professional Activities
2016-Present Editor for Journal of Chinese Overseas Studies, The Japan Society for the Studies of
Chinese Overseas.
2013 Director in charge of editing Journal of Chinese Overseas Studies, The Japan Society
for the Studies of Chinese Overseas.
2011- 2012 Editor for Journal of Chinese Overseas Studies, The Japan Society for the Studies of
Chinese Overseas.
2011 Referee for Migration Policy Review, The Japan Association for Migration Policy
Studies.
2010- 2011 Assistant Director for 9th Annual Conference of the Japan Society for the Studies of
Chinese Overseas.
External Funding and Scholarship
2015-2019 “Formation of the Space of Migration in the Transpacific Region in the Late 19th
Century.” Ministry of Education Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (4,030,000 yen:
approx. $ 36,000)
2013-2015 “The Growth of the Migration Industry and its Impact on the Exclusion and
Consumption of Racial Minorities in the U.S.: Focusing on Chinse Immigrants in the
Late 19th Century.” Ministry of Education Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
(2,470,000 yen: approx. $22,000)
2009-2011 “Sovereignty, Security, and Race: The Role of the Counter-public Sphere in Social
Movements against the Exclusion of Immigrants.” Ministry of Education
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (2,639,000 yen: approx. $23,500)
2007-2008 “Sociology of Globalization: Rethinking ‘the Political’ in Transnational Migration in
the Asia-Pacific Region.” Ministry of Education Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
(2,200,000 yen: approx. $20,000)
2005-2007 “What is ‘the Political’?”: Revisiting the Transnational Social Sphere in the Asia-
Pacific Region.’ Ministry of Education Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
(1,800,000 yen: approx. $16,000)
2003- 2004 Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship (fund for study abroad) ($25,000)
Publications
Book Chapters
Forthcoming Ooi, Yuki. “Transpacific Steamship Routes: Making the Contact Zone of Asia and
the United States” in Yoneyuki Sugita (Ed.). Multiple Perspectives in Analysis
of the Asia-Pacific Region. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten. (Published in Japanese titled
“Teikiteki Joukisen no Taiheiyoukouro Kaisetsu to Asia-America no ‘Sesshoku
Ryouiki’ no Keisei”).
2016 Ooi, Yuki. “Borders of ‘American Citizens’ Created in a More Globalized World:
The Significance of the Transpacific Steamship Route for Asian Immigration to
the United States in the Late 19th Century” in Yoneyuki Sugita (Ed.). Japan
Viewed from Interdisciplinary Perspectives: History and Prospect. Lanham,
MD: Lexington Books.
2015 Ooi, Yuki. ”Steamships as Empires’ Tentacles: Impacts of the Transpacific
Steamship Routes on Asia and the United States” in Yoneyuki Sugita (Ed.).
Legacy of the Pacific War. Okayama: Daigaku Kyoiku Shuppan. (Published in
Japanese titled “Teikoku no ‘Shokushu’ to shite no Joukisen: Taiheiyoukouro ga
Asia to America ni Imisurumono”)
2014 Ooi, Yuki. “Exclusion of Immigrants and Birthright Citizenship: An Analysis from
the Perspective of Federal Sovereignty” in Yoneyuki Sugita (Ed.). Changing Views
of What America Means. Okayama: Daigaku Kyouiku Shuppan. pp. 45-65
(Published in Japanese titled “Iminhaiseki to Shusseichishugi: Rinen to Shuken no
Aida”)
2013 Ooi, Yuki. Chapters titled “New York” and “Saskia Sassen” in Naoya Nakasuji &
Yasumasa Igarashi (Eds.). Introduction to Urban Sociology. Kyoto: Minerva
Shobo. pp.2-3, 190-191 (Published in Japanese titled “New York” and “Saskia
Sassen”)
2011 Ooi, Yuki. “Are Undocumented Migrants Becoming American Citizens?: What
Immigration Issues Posed American Society” in Jun Akashi and Hiroshi Komai
(Ed.). Immigration of Labor and Global Economic Crisis. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten.
pp. 227-238 (Published in Japanese titled “Senzaiteki Kyoui kara Senzaiteki Shimin
he?: Iminmondai ga America he Teikisuru Mondai”)
2011 Ooi, Yuki. “Transnationality in Film The Namesake: Space and Contexts Free
from Ethnic Identity” in Yoshimichi Miyakawa (Ed.). Role of Film as a Tool to
Integrate American Studies. Otsu: Kourosha. pp.169-180 (Published in Japanese
titled “Eiga ‘The Namesake” ni okeru Transnationality: Zokusei karano Hinanjo/
Yokuatsu surumono toshiteno ‘Daisan no Kukan’”)
2009 Ooi, Yuki. “Is the Golden Door Open Again? Analysis of American Birthright
Citizenship Granted to Chinse Immigrants in the Late 19th Century” in Shigeki
Sato (Ed.). Nationalism and Transnationalism: Transformation of Public
Sphere. Tokyo: Housei Daigaku Shuppankyoku. pp. 203-222 (Published in
Japanese titled “Ougon no Tobira ha Hirakareta noka?: 19Seikimatsu Chinese
Imin heno Seitoku no Shiminken Fuyo wo meguru Ichikousatsu”)
2009 Ooi, Yuki. “ ‘China’ on Display at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893: Faces of
Modernization in the Contact Zone” in Dora Martins & Friederike Assandri
(Eds.). From Early Tang Court Debates to China's Rise. Amsterdam: Amsterdam
University Press. pp. 23-38
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2008 Ooi, Yuki. “Becoming Transnational Through Assimilation: Emergence of
National/ Ethnic Identity among Chinese Migrants in Late 19th-Century
Chicago.” International Journal of Japanese Sociology, 17, pp.77-90.
2006 Ooi, Yuki. “How ‘Chineseness’ Emerged in the Chinese Diasporic Community: A
Case Study of Late Nineteenth Century Chicago.” Journal of Chinese
Overseas Studies, 3. pp. 24-34. (Published in Japanese titled " 'Chugokujin
Ishiki" to Diaspora: 19 seikimatsu no Chicago wo Jirei toshite”)
2006 Ooi, Yuki. “Identifying Migration and the National State in Methodological
Transnationalism.” Japanese Sociological Review, 57(1). pp.143-156.
(Published in Japanese titled " Transnationalism ni okeru Imin to Kokka”)
2006 Ooi, Yuki. “Immigration Policies in the Formation of the Nation-state: Locating the
Nation-state’ in Methodological Transnationalism.” The Hitotsubashi Review,
135(2). pp. 101-119 (Published in Japanese titled “Imin seisaku to Kokumin kokka
no Keisei: Transnationalism ni okeru 'State' no ichiduke wo kangaeru”)
2005 Ooi, Yuki. “The Formation of Federal Sovereignty from the Perspective of
Transnational Migration: Chinese Migration and the American Border in the
Late 19th Century.” The Annual Review of Sociology, 18. pp. 53-64.
(Published in Japanese titled "Transnational na Kokka Shuken no Keisei: 19
Seiki America ni okeru Chugoku karano Hito no Idou wo Jirei toshite”)
2004 Ooi, Yuki. “Political Roles Feminism Can Play in the Age of Globalization:
Analysis of the Backlash against the Japanese Government's Gender- equal
Society Policy.’" Sociology Today, 13, pp.13-29. (Published in Japanese titled
"Global ka no nakadeno Feminism no Seijiteki Yakuwari: 'Dan jo Kyodo Sankaku
Shakai ni taisuru Backlash wo Keikitosita ihi Kousatsu”)
2004 Ooi, Yuki. “Critique of Transnational Civil Society: Toward Democracy in the Age
of Globalization.” The Hitotsubashi Review, 131(2). pp. 200-212.( Published in
Japanese titled "Transnational Civil Society to Democracy ni kansuru ichi
Kousatsu: Globalka no Bunmyaku de Kanngaeru")
Book and Research Reviews
2010 Ooi, Yuki. (in Japanese) Review of Nanboku America Kamin to Kindai Chugoku
(Overseas Chinese in North and South Americas and Modern China) by
Setsuko Sonoda. The Annual Review of Migration Studies, pp. 156-160.
2007 Ooi, Yuki. (in Japanese) Review of Citizenship and Nationhood in France and
France by Rogers Brubaker. Tsukuba Sociological Society. pp. 133-135.
2007 Ooi, Yuki (in Japanese) ‘Research Review of Recent Trends in Overseas
Chinese Studies.’ The Journal of Chinese Overseas Studies, 4.pp. 109-114.
2002 Ooi, Yuki. Review of Globalization and Social Change by Johannes Dragsbaek
Schmidt et al eds. In Toshio Iyotani (Ed.) Globalization. Sakuhin-sha. p. 179.
Translations from English into Japanese
Forthcoming Ooi, Yuki. The Age of Extremes 1914-1991. by Eric Hobsbawm: Chikuma Shobo.
Forthcoming Sasaki Teru, Ooi Yuki, Niikura Takatoshi & Akiyama Arata. Globalization: Key
Thinkers by Andrew Jones. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten.
2012 Sasaki Teru, Ooi Yuki, Niikura Takatoshi, Akedo Takatoshi &Akiyama Arata .
The Dictionary of Globalization by Andrew Jones . Tokyo: Akashi Shoten.
2009 Iyotani Toshio, Ooi Yuki & Takahashi Kaoko. The Global City 2nd Edition. by
Saskia Sassen . Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo.
2008 Ooi, Yuki . “Imperial Embrace?: Identification and Constraints on Mobility in a
Hegemonic Empire” by John Torpey. In Toshio Iyotani (Ed.) Research Reports
submitted to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science "Analyzing Gender
from Global Perspectives: Politics in Human Migration and the Impacts on
Migrants' Gender Relations." pp.248-258
Other Papers
2015 Ooi, Yuki. "Comments on Professor Erika Lee's Lecture" in Yasuko Takezawa (Ed.).
Research Reports submitted to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science "A Japan
Based Global Study of Racial Representation." pp.41-44.
2007 Ooi, Yuki. “Transnationalism: What ‘Modernization’ Meant to Chinese Immigrants/
Americans in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries” in Yuiko Fujita (Ed.).
“Research Reports of International Conference ‘Political and Social Order in the
Multicultural and Multigenerational World.’” pp. 859-866 (Published in Japanese
titled "Transnationalism kara Nani ga Mieru noka?: Chinese Immigrants /
Americans no ‘Kindaika’”
2003 Ooi, Yuki. "Politics in the Age of Globalization: Social Movements and Citizenship" in
Toshio Iyotani (Ed.). Research Report submitted to the Japan Society for the Promotion
of Science "Comparative Studies on Global Projects: Political Economy of
Globalization and Global Culture" pp.246-260 (Published in Japanese titled
“Globalization no Politics: Shakaiundou to Citizenship”)
Presentations
Symposium:
February 2014 Ooi, Yuki. "Steamships on the Border Between Inclusion and Exclusion: The
United States’ Exclusion of Chinese Migrants in the in the Late 19th
Century.” USJI Week, US-Japan Institute, Washington DC, USA.
February 2014 Ooi, Yuki. “Birthright Citizenship Questioned: ‘Chinese Citizens’ in the
Periphery of Sovereignty, Freedom and Equality in Late Nineteenth Century
America.” Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Asia- Pacific Region History
and Prospect, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
November 2007 Ooi, Yuki. “Transnationalism: What ‘Modernization’ Meant to Chinese
Immigrants/ Americans in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.”
International Conference ‘Political and Social Order in the Multicultural and
Multigenerational World.’ Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
October 2007 Ooi, Yuki. “Gazes on China: Caught between the United States and Japan.”
Interdisciplinary Workshop “The Orientalist Gaze on Japan: Bygone Woe or
Ongoing Affliction?” Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle,
Germany.
Invited Presentations:
March 2017 Ooi, Yuki "CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) for Whom? : For Ethnic Minorities to be Stakeholders in Japan." Seoul National University, Asia Center. Fukuoka, Korea
July 2015 Ooi, Yuki. “ Dynamics of International Migration: Impacts of Migration on
the Formation of Nation-states.” Kyushu University. Fukuoka, Japan.
November 2013 Ooi, Yuki. “Exclusion and Inclusion of the Otherness of Chinese Immigrants in
American Society.” Osaka University. Osaka, Japan.
November 2012 Ooi, Yuki. “ ‘Modernization’ on the Border: Inclusion and Exclusion of Chinese
Immigrants in the U.S.” Ritsumeikan University. Kyoto, Japan.
January 2011 Ooi, Yuki. “ How Chinese Students in the U.S. in the Early 20th Century
Understood ‘Modern China.’” Nagoya University. Nagoya, Japan.
May 2010 Ooi, Yuki. “Borders in Transnationalism” Nagoya University. Nagoya, Japan.
May 2009 Yuki Ooi and Kaoko Takahashi “Staging Cosmopolitanized Foreignness in
Re-nationalizing Tokyo.” World Social Sciences Forum, Bergen, Norway.
Conference Presentations:
November 2007 Ooi, Yuki. “ ‘ Modern China’ Made in the U.S.A.: Rupture in Transnationalism
Seen from Chinese Migrants in the Late 19th to 20th Centuries.” 80th Annual
Conference of Japanese Sociological Society, Kantogakuin University,
Kanagawa, Japan.
August 2007 Ooi, Yuki. “Faces of Modernity: Chicago World’s Fair as the Contact Zone
between East and West in the Late 19th Century.” 5th International
Convention for Asian Scholars, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
October 2006 Ooi, Yuki. “Making of the Transnational Social Sphere through Migration in the
Asia-Pacific Region: Meanings of ‘Modernization’ for Asian Migrants in
the United States.” 79th Annual Conference of Japanese Sociological
Society, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.
June 2006 Ooi, Yuki. “Americanization of Chinese Immigrants and the Chinese Diaspora.”
40th Annual Conference of Japan Association for American Studies, Nanzan
University, Nagoya, Japan.
February 2006 Ooi, Yuki. “Constructing and Deconstructing Chinese Identities.” Asia-Pacific
Week, Australian National University, Canberra. Australia.
November 2005 Ooi, Yuki. “The Chinese Community in Chicago: Overseas Chinese and the
United States.” 3rd Annual Conference of the Japan Society for the Studies of
Chinese Overseas, Chuka Kaikan, Kobe, Japan.
October 2005 Ooi, Yuki. “American Democracy and U.S. Immigration Policies.” 78th
Annual Conference of Japanese Sociological Society, Hosei University, Tokyo,
Japan.
May 2005 Ooi, Yuki. “Revisiting the Paradigm of ‘America as the Nation of Immigrants’
through the Perspectives of Chinese Migrants in the Late 19th Century.” 2nd
Annual Conference of Japanese Association for American History, Kanseigakuin
University, Osaka, Japan.
May 2005 Ooi, Yuki. “Sovereignty and the Building of the Nation- state of the United
States from Migrants’ Perspective.” 53th Annual Conference of Kanto
Sociological Society, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan.