Biography

Rachael Kei Kawasaki is a Max Weber Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, where she researches migration, integration, and public attitudes towards immigrants. Her current work examines the relationship between community attitudes and migrants' multidimensional integration processes in the UK context.

Dr. Kawasaki earned her PhD from Kyoto University's Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, focusing on cross-national determinants of attitudes towards immigrants, expanding the study area to include non-European and developing countries. Her research experience spans both academic and policy contexts, including positions at the OECD International Migration Division, where she contributed to research on labor migration in Asia, and UNESCO Bangkok, where she analyzed learning outcomes for migrant children in non-formal education settings.

As a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of Land Economy and matriculated member of Pembroke College, she investigated income and life satisfaction inequalities between immigrant and UK-born populations, as well as disparities among different immigrant groups. Her work bridges quantitative analysis with policy-relevant research on migration and integration outcomes.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Inequality, welfare and social justice