| Research Themes |
Immigrant and Education
Educational Support of Minority Students
Border Crossing and Multicultural Co-existence
Ethnography
Participatory Action Research
She has conducted ethnographic research with immigrant girls in Japan and the United States, exploring how they construct identities and belonging. More recently, she has conducted Participatory Action Research (PAR) in an attempt to empower and support creation of ibasho among immigrant youth in Japan and the United States.
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| Publications/Major Achievements |
- Tokunaga, T., Dinesh, J. R., Watanabe, S., Shah, A. (2022) Co-researching with Immigrant Youth in Tokyo during COVID-19: Possibilities of Virtual Youth Participatory Action Research. NEOS, 14(1), pp20-24.
- Tokunaga, T., Machado Da Silva, I. & Fu, M. (2022) Participatory Action Research with Immigrant Youth in Tokyo: Possibilities and Challenges of Ibasho Creation Project. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 46 (1), pp40-51.
- Sosnowski, J., Tokunaga, T. & Evans, S. (2022) Participatory Action Research in Education: Benefits and Tensions Across Contexts. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 46 (1), pp19-25.
- Tokunaga, T. (2021) Co-creating Ibasho at a Part-Time High School in Tokyo: Affirming the Lives of Immigrant Students through Extracurricular Activities. Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 15, pp27-39.
- McGuire, J. M. & Tokunaga, T. (2020) Co-constructing Belonging: ‘Voluntary Separation’ in Deaf and Immigrant Education in Japan. Japanese Studies, 40(3), pp291-311.
- Douthirt-Cohen, B. & Tokunaga, T. (2020) “Is He Allowed to Have a Crush on You?”: Interrupting Adultism in Fieldwork with Youth. Ethnography and Education, 15(2), pp207-221.
- Tokunaga, T. (2018) Learning to Belong in the World: An Ethnography of Asian American Girls. Singapore : Springer
- Yonezawa, A., Kitamura Y., Yamamoto, B. & Tokunaga, Y. (Eds) (2018) Japanese Education in a Global Age:Sociological Reflections and Future Directions. Singapore: Springer
- Tokunaga, T. (2016) ‘We Dominate the Basement!’: How Asian American Girls Construct a Borderland Community. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 29(9), pp1086-1099.
- Imagining Homes in the Deterritorialized World: Use of Media and Popular Culture among Asian American Girls. Intercultural Education(40)/pp.70-84 (In Japanese)
- Tokunaga, T. (2011) ‘I’m Not Going to Be in Japan Forever’: How Filipina Immigrant Youth in Japan Construct the Meaning of Home. Ethnography and Education, 6(2), pp179-193.
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| Social and Outreach Activity |
Vice chair, Global Committee, Intercultural Education Society of Japan (June 2021-Present)
Committee member, Research Committee, Japan Society of Educational Sociology (September 2021-Present)
Committee member, International Exchanges Committee, Japanese Educational Research
Association (November 2019-Present)
Committee member, Public Relations Committee, Japan Comparative Education Society (August 2020-Present)
Special appointment member, Committee on the Basic Plan for the Promotion of Education, Central Council for Education, MEXT（March 2022-March 2023）
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