Megha Wadhwa, Ph.D., is a Research Associate at the Institute of East Asian Studies/Japanese Studies, Free University Berlin. She is also a visiting fellow at the Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University Tokyo. Her research since 2013 has focused on the Indian Diaspora in Japan. She has written several articles on the Indian community for The Japan Times and is also the author of Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious and Working Worlds.(Routledge 2021). She has also been conducting research about Indian migrant restaurateurs and cooks since 2017 as part of the Sophia Research Project on Priority Areas ‘Refugees and new migrant support: the role of the Church, other religious groups, and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the sustainable social integration of the displaced population into Japan’. Her most recent project, as of 2021, focuses on “Structural change in Indian skilled worker migration to Japan” that is a part of bigger project – "Skill" in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia, supported by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as a part of the “Small Subjects” funding initiative. She also trained in documentary filmmaking. Her recent documentaries are ‘Daughters from Afghanistan’ (2019) and a 7-minute film on Indian cooks in Japan (2020). |
