Hélène Le Bail is a research fellow at CNRS and Sciences Po Paris. She has a doctorate in political science from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and a master degree in Chinese studies from INALCO (National Institute for Eastern Languages and Cultures). She spent many years in Japan as a Ph.D student (Hitotsubashi University), as a post-doc (Waseda University), and as a research fellow for the French research center on contemporary Japan, Maison franco-japonaise (Nichifutsu kaikan), Tokyo. She was an invited professor at Kobe University (2019) and at Dôshisha University (2023-24).
Hélène le Bail’s research focuses on three main themes:
1. Mobilization, political participation, and political representation of Asian minorities.
2. Women’s migration routes—marriage, reproductive labor, and sex work—in light of demographic challenges and from a comparative perspective. Particular attention is given to the impact of legislation on prostitution;
3. Japan as an immigration country, the evolution of migration policies, and the specific case of Chinese immigration;
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 6543 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2933-7048 |
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
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French National Centre for Scientific Research
Research Institute, Paris, France
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Sciences Po
University, Paris, France
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