Moyuru Matsumae

Moyuru Matsumae is a Professor at the School of Culture, Media and Society, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University. Her research focuses on cultural anthropology, gender studies, and Southeast European area studies.

• Key research themes include labor migration, gender roles, post-socialism, and transnational care work.
• Active in EU integration studies and Balkan ethnography, with fieldwork in Bulgaria since the post-socialist era.
• Current research projects examine migration's impact on life courses and intergenerational dynamics.

  Recent publications analyze migrant labor in EU contexts, Bulgarian rural transformation, and gendered migration patterns. Her work spans transnational mobility, EU policy effects, and postsocialist cultural practices.

  Academic engagement includes presentations at major conferences like EASA and InASEA, focusing on migration, care work, and EU integration. She contributes to collective works on Slavic studies, Balkan gender dynamics, and migration theory.