SHIOBARA Yoshikazu

Yoshikazu Shiobara was born in Japan in 1973. He got Bachelor of Law (Political Science) in 1996, Master of Law (Political Science) in 1998, and Ph.D (Sociology) in 2004 at Keio University, Tokyo. He also studied at the Australian National University (2001-2003), Sydney University (2003-2005) and Monash University (2023-2024) as a visiting student/scholar. Prof. Shiobara’s current research interests are multiculturalism and ethnic minority issues in Australia and Japan. Since 2001 he constantly visits Australia and researches on the policies and official discourses of multiculturalism and the implications for immigrant communities, as well as policies for indigenous peoples and asylum seekers. He has published a lot of books, journal articles and papers for academic presentations written in Japanese and English, including Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan (co-edited, Routledge, 2019), Migration Policies in Asia (co-edited, Sage, 2020) and Japanese Migrations to Australia (co-d\edited, Routledge, 2025). He is also known as a translator of Japanese translation of Australian anthropologist Ghassan Hage’s White Nation (co-translation), Against Paranoid Nationalism, and Alter-Politics (co-translation).

• Social change
• /Global socioligy
• /Australian studies
• /Multiculturalism
• /immigrants and indigenous peoples