Kristin Surak

Dr. Kristin Surak is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London. She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA and specializes in Japanese politics, migration, and nationalism.

Her research examines:

• Labor migration patterns in East Asia
• Citizenship and investment migration
• Symbolic politics of nation-formation

Her book 'Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice' received the American Sociological Association's Book of the Year Award. Surak has held prestigious fellowships at Princeton, Cambridge, and the Institute for Advanced Study.

She currently supervises PhD candidates researching linguistic landscapes and emigration policy. Her forthcoming book 'Citizenship 4 Sale' examines mobility rights for wealthy migrants.