Main Focus
- Ageing, care and mobility
- Collective memory and mediators
- Social media and disconnected society
Curriculum Vitae
2020 - Research Scientist, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung
2012-2020 Professor, University of Rikkyo (Japan)
2008-2012 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore
2002-2008 Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
2000-2002 Lecturer, University of Hull (UK)
2000 PhD in Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hull (UK)
Projects
Collective Memory and War Site Tourism: A Comparative Study of Germany and Japan (2026-)
Social Media Engagement among Adolescents (2026-)
Changing the Feeling Rules. How Emotions Reshape Social Relations, c. 1700 to today (Collaborative Project 2002-2005)
Selected Publications
Toyota, M. 'From dreadful shame to manageable incident: How post-mortem cleaning workers' narratives change the feeling rules about "lonely deaths" in Japan', Social Science History (2024) https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.32.
Toyota, M., "Kokodushi Einsame Tode in Japan", Special Issue on "Einsamkeit. Geschichte sozialer Nichtbeziehungen", Berliner Debatte Initial 33.1 (2022): 101-109.
Toyota, M., "Shut-In abroad: Social incapacitation among low-income male Japanese retirees in Thailand", Special Issue on "(Re-)Constructing ageing futures: Insights from migration in Asia and beyond", American Behavioural Scientist, 66.14 (2022): 1896-1911. DOI: 10.1177/00027642221075259
Toyota, M. and L.L. Thang, "Transnational retirement mobility as processes of identity negotiation: the case of Japanese in Southeast Asia", Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 24.5 (2017): 557-572.
Toyota, M. and M. Ormond, "Confronting economic precariousness through international retirement: Japan's old-age 'economic refugees' and Germany's exported grannies", in J. M. Rickly-Boyd, K. Hannam and M. Mostafanezhad (eds), Tourism and Leisure Mobilities: Politics, Work and Play (Routledge, 2016), pp. 134-146.
Toyota, M. and B. Xiang, "The emerging transnational 'retiring industry' in Southeast Asia", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 32.11/12 (2012): 708-719.
Toyota, M., S. Huang and B. Yeoh, "Caring for the elderly: the embodied labour of migrant care workers in Singapore", Global Networks 12.2 (2012): 195-215.
Toyota, M., "'Guarded globalization': The Politics of skill recognition on migrant health care workers", in D. W. Haines, K. Yamanaka and S. Yamashita (eds), Wind over water: Migration in an East Asian context (Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books, 2012), pp. 229-240.
Toyota, M., "Editorial introduction: International marriage, rights and the state in East and Southeast Asia", Citizenship Studies 12.1 (2008): 1-7.
Toyota, M., "Bringing the 'Left-behind' back into view in Asia: A framework for understanding the 'migration left behind nexus'", special isssue of Population, Space and Place 13.3 (2007): 157-161.
Toyota, M., "Ambivalent Categories: 'Hill tribes' and 'illegal migrants' in Thailand", in P.K. Rajaram and C. Grundy-Warr (eds), Borderscapes: Hidden geographies and isurrectionary politics at territory's edge (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), pp. 91-116.
Toyota, M., "Ageing and transnational householding: Japanese retirees in Southeast Asia", International Development Planning Review 28.4 (2006): 515-531.
Toyota, M., "Subjects of the state without citizenship: the case of 'hill tribes' in Thailand", in W. Kymlicka and H. Baobang (eds), Multiculturalism in Asia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 110-135.
Toyota, M., "Contested Chinese identities among ethnic minorities in the China, Burma and Thai borderlands", Ethnic and Racial Studies 26.6 (2003): 301-320.
Toyota, M., "Cross-border mobility and social networks: Akha caravan traders", in G. Evans, C. Hutton and K. Khun-Eng (eds), Where China meets Southeast Asia: Social and cultural changes in the border regions (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000), pp. 204-221.
Toyota, M., "The effects of tourism development on an Akha community: a Chiang Rai village case study", in M. Parnwell (ed.), Uneven Development in Thailand (Avebury: Ashgate, 1996), pp. 226-240.