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My research focuses on three themes:
The relationship between the state and foreign residents
My book, Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan was published with SUNY Press in August 2019, and is currently available in hardcover and paperback.
Strausz, Michael. 2021. "Immigration and Democracy in Japan." In The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics, edited by Robert J. Pekkanen and Saadia M. Pekkanen. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Strausz, Michael. 2021. "‘This is Not an Immigration Policy’: The 2018 Immigration Reform and the Future of Immigration and Citizenship in Japan." In Immigration Governance in East Asia: Norm Diffusion, Politics of Identity, Citizenship, edited by Gunter Schubert, Franziska Plümmer and Anastasiya Bayok. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Strausz, Michael. 2018. "Does the LDP Want to Build a Wall Too? Immigration and the 2017 Election in Japan." In Japan Decides 2017: The Japanese General Election, edited by Robert J Pekkanen, Steven R Reed, Ethan Scheiner and Daniel M Smith. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Strausz, Michael. 2014. "Forced Migration in Contemporary Asia." In The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia, edited by Saadia M. Pekkanen, John Ravenhill and Rosemary Foot. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Strausz, Michael. 2012. "International Pressure and Domestic Precedent: Japan's Resettlement of Indochinese Refugees." Asian Journal of Political Science 20 (3):244-266. This paper explains Japan’s decision to admit more than 10,000 Indochinese boat people in the years following the fall of Saigon.
Strausz, Michael. 2010. “Japanese Conservatism and the Integration of Foreign Residents.” Japanese Journal of Political Science 11:245-264 (© Cambridge University Press). This paper is about Japanese conservatives’ responses to proposals to grant foreign residents the right to vote and proposals to make naturalization easier.
Strausz, Michael. 2006-2007. “Minorities and Protest in Japan: The Politics of the Fingerprinting Refusal Movement.” Pacific Affairs 79:641-656. This article examines the emergence of the fingerprinting refusal movement among foreign residents in Japan in the 1980s.
The role of norms in international politics
Strausz, Michael. 2018. "Japan’s Whaling Diplomacy: Science, Morality, and International Norms." In The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Foreign Policy, edited by Mary M. McCarthy. New York: Routledge.
Greenhill, Brian and Michael Strausz. 2014. “Explaining Nonratification of the Genocide Convention: A Nested Analysis.” Foreign Policy Analysis 10:371-391. This paper combines large-N statistical analysis with a case study of Japan’s decision not to ratify the Convention.
Mello, Brian, and Michael Strausz. 2011. “International Norms and Women's Rights in Turkey and Japan.” Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy 32:333-362. This paper is about the diffusion of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
Japanese politics more broadly
Michiya Mori and I are working on a project about the way that unpopular Prime Ministers have attempted to turn things around in Parliamentary electoral campaigns. We focus on the Noda and Aso administrations.
Katie Nissen, Taka-aki Asano, and Michael Strausz after a presentation of our 2019 APSA paper.
