Sakura Yamamura

Sakura Yamamura is a Professor in Human Geography at RWTH Aachen University, affiliated with the Department of Sociocultural Diversity. She is a guest in 2025 and contributes to understanding migration-led diversification and urban transformation in contemporary societies.

Education:

• University of Hamburg – Geography, Sociology, Social/Cultural Anthropology
• Université de Paris 1 - Sorbonne – Geography, Sociology, Social/Cultural Anthropology
• University of California at Berkeley – Geography, Sociology, Social/Cultural Anthropology

Her research focuses on the interplay between digitalization and societal change, particularly in urban contexts shaped by migration. She employs innovative digital methodologies to study transnational spaces and socio-spatial practices in global cities like Frankfurt and Tokyo. Her cultural geographical approach integrates multi-scalar analyses of migrant-led diversities and their embeddedness in urban fabric.

Sakura Yamamura previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Sociocultural Diversity (September 2018 – February 2022). She has professional experience with the Migration Research Group at HWWI, the OECD’s International Migration Division, and the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). She was a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration, and Development (MACIMIDE) and lectured at the Geography Departments of the University of Hamburg and Kiel University.

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