Masako Ishii
Ph.D. (2000), is Professor at the College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University, Japan. Her main research interest is Area Studies on Muslim society in the Philippines focusing on gender, migration and peace process. Her publications include: Possibilities and Limitation of Protection for Filipina Domestic Workers in the Arab Gulf States, in Naomi Hosoda, ed. Migrant Workers in the Arab Gulf States: Growing Foreign Population and Their Lives, 122–146 (in Japanese, Akashi Shoten, 2014); Muslim Filipino Women Working in the Middle East: Changing Norm and Migrant Women, in Hiroshi Kato, ed. Sexuality and Cultures in Islam, 185–210 (in Japanese, Tokyo University Press, 2005).
Naomi Hosoda
Ph.D. (2007), is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. Her main research interest is in anthropological studies of Filipino migration with a focus on cultural normality, family transformation, transnational community, education and citizenship. She published several articles on Filipino migrants’ identity and community formation in Arab Gulf states such as: 2008: ‘Open City’ and a New Wave of Filipino Migration to the Middle East, in E. Tagliacozzo et al. ed. Asia Inside Out: Changing Times, 281–303 (Harvard University Press, 2015); and edited Migrant Workers in the Arab Gulf States: Growing Foreign Population and Their Lives (in Japanese, Akashi Shoten, 2014).
Masaki Matsuo
Ph.D. (2003), is Associate Professor at the School of International Studies, Utsunomiya University, Japan. He has studied the political economy of the Middle East, focusing on the relation between the re-distribution of oil wealth and the authoritarian regimes. His publications include: Authoritarianism and Labor Market: Preference of Labor Policies in the Arab Gulf Countries, IDE Discussion Paper, No. 514: 1–26 (2015); Ethnocracy in the Arab Gulf States: Preliminary Analysis of Recent Labor Market, Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies 4 (1&2): 35–40 (2011).
Koji Horinuki
Ph.D. (2011), is a Senior Researcher at JIME Center, the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ). His main research interests are contemporary Gulf politics, security, and social affairs. His works in English include: Japan in the Gulf: Between