Chiaki Tsuchida

Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo *Profile is at the time of the award.

2023Inamori Research GrantsHumanities & Sociology

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Research topics: Rethinking Temporary Protection: Case Study of Ukrainian Refugees

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Summary: Today, a large number of people are fled from their homeland for a wide variety of reasons. Refugee studies recognise that the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees is not suitable to the modern world.
This research conducts case study of Ukrainian refugees in the countries belong to the Group of 7 (G7), and consider the role of temporary protection as a refugee regime in modern times.

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I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the Inamori Foundation Research Grant. With your support, I would like to continue my research on refugee protection.

Outline of Research Achievments

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the Group of the Seven (G7) began to accept displaced persons from Ukraine respectively. At that time, Japan tried to accept Ukrainian displaced persons by establishing a complementary protection policy and granting them stable legal status, rather than treating them under the framework of temporary protection as other states did.

This study aimed to examine the acceptance of Ukrainian displaced persons and the establishment of the complementary protection policy in Japan. To do this, the paper analyzed the minutes of the Diet, the roundtable on the immigration policy, and the expert committee on the refugee recognition system. The study concluded that the establishment of Japan’s complementary protection policy was positioned in the history of the progress of the principle of non-refoulement, which prohibits states from deporting individuals to a place where they would be at a risk of persecution, and the advancement of “special permission to stay” in Japan. The protection of Ukrainian displaced persons ultimately promoted the acceptance of the international human rights norms regarding complementary protection in Japan.

Chiaki Tsuchida (2024) Establishment of Japan’s Complementary Protection Policy in 2023 Migration policy review 16 20-34

Chiaki Tsuchida (2024) Nihon no Nanmin Hogo (Refugee Protection in Japan – Postwar History of the Immigration Control Policy) Keio University Press

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