Skip to main content
ICAS 13 - 2024 Main banner
Programme Book
Back

Setsuko Shibuya

The University of Fukuchiyama, Japan

Setsuko Shibuya is a professor at the University of Fukuchiyama. She has a Ph.D. in anthropology and specializes in social changes in Asia, particularly Vietnam and Japan. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research in the rural Mekong Delta in Vietnam since the 1990s, focusing on social transformations and the role of family. Her publication on the topic includes Living with Uncertainty: Social Change and the Vietnamese Family in the Rural Mekong Delta (published from Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in 2015) and “Urbanization, Jobs and the Family in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam,” in Journal of Comparative Studies 49 (2018). More recently, she has been working on Vietnamese residents in Japan from multi-cultural perspectives, and contributed a chapter in Open Borders, Open Society? Immigration and Social Integration in Japan (edited by T. Endo and published from Verlag Barbara Budrich in 2022). Her topic of interests include: family values, social stratification, urban-migration, cross-border migration and multi-culturalism among others.

Presentation(s):