Biography

Naoto Higuchi is Professor of Sociology at Waseda University in Japan. He holds a PhD in sociology from Hitotsubashi University. His research draws on sociology of migration and social movements to examine migration systems, ethnic businesses, integration of the second generation of Latino migrants, migration policies, xenophobia, and social mobility of migrants to Japan.

His main focus was ethnic migration of Japanese South American to Japan. Since 2021, he has been conducting fieldwork on Peruvian and Bangladeshi migrants in Italy. He has written extensively on immigration of Latinos to Japan and Japan’s far-right movements. His publications include Japan’s Ultra-Right (Trans Pacific Press, 2016) and ‘What Is New about Japan’s New Migration Policy?’ (Social Science Japan Journal, 2025).