Deborah Milly

Deborah J. MILLY, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Yale University, M.A. Sophia University, Tokyo. Dr. Milly’s research and teaching focus on comparative politics; Japanese politics; comparative Asian politics; comparative politics of migration, immigration, and citizenship; and comparative social welfare policies. She is the author of two books: Poverty, Equality, and Growth: The Politics of Economic Need in Postwar Japan (Harvard Asia Center) and New Policies for New Residents: Immigrants, Advocacy, and Governance in Japan and Beyond (Cornell University Press). Her articles have appeared in academic journals such as the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Social Science Japan Journal, and the Asia-Pacific Japan Focus Journal. Her current book project compares Japanese local governments’ initiatives to train, recruit, and support a foreign-born nursing care labor force for the country’s aging population while working with public- and private-sector care industry businesses. Dr. Milly has held fellowships from the Abe Fellows Program, the Japan Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Fulbright Scholars Program, and the National Endowment for Humanities. She has served as co-editor for the Newsletter of the Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association and as an executive board member and member of the International Affairs committee of the Japan Association for Migration Policy Studies.