Dr. Sakura Yamamura
Curriculum Vitae
Sakura Yamamura was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociocultural Diversity from September 2018 to February 2022. With her expertise in migration studies, urban and economic geography, her work focussed on the spatiality of migrant-led diversities in global cities, such as Frankfurt and Tokyo. Applying both quantitative and qualitative methods, she worked on the geographical localization and conceptual concretization of transnational spaces, shedding new light on social-spatial urban transformations induced by the interaction of different transnational actors. She studied geography, sociology, and social/cultural anthropology at the University of Hamburg, Université de Paris 1 - Sorbonne and the University of California at Berkeley. She previously worked for the Migration Research Group at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI), in the International Migration Division of the OECD, and at the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). She was Junior Visiting Fellow at the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration, and Development (MACIMIDE) at Maastricht University, and lectured at the Geography Departments of the University of Hamburg and Kiel.
Research projects
- Entrepreneurial superdiversity and intersectionality
- Intersecting spaces of superdiversity
- Transnational spaces in the Global City Tokyo
Publications
Contributions to a Collected edition
Yamamura, S., & Lassalle, P. (2021). Notions and practices of differences: An epilogue on the diversity of entrepreneurship and migration. In N. Vershinina, P. Rodgers, M. Xheneti, J. Brzozowski, & P. Lassalle (Eds.), Global Migration, Entrepreneurship and Society (pp. 195-211). Bingley, U.K.: Emerald Publishing Limited. Link
Lassalle, P., Yamamura, S. & Whittam, G. (2020). Diversity and
Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship, in: Deakins, D., Scott, J. & Freel, M.
(eds): Entrepreneurship: a contemporary approach. Sage.
Yamamura, S. (2018). The making of transnational urban space: financial professionals in the global city Tokyo. In M. Hoyler, C. Parnreiter, & A. Watson (Eds.), Global city makers. Economic actors and practices in the world city network (pp. 106-123). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Link
Johnston, A., Lassalle, P., & Yamamura, S. (2018). Re-conceptualising entrepreneurial ecosystems: a theoretical exploration of evolution over space and time. In Geography, Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Journal Articles
Yamamura, S., & Lassalle, P. (2022). Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship. Comparative Migration Studies, 10: 14 (2022). Link
Yamamura, S. (2022). The multi-scalar embeddedness of support policies for migrant entrepreneurship in Japan. International Migration. Link
(2020) Approximating entrepreneurial superdiversity: reconceptualizing the superdiversity debate in ethnic minority entrepreneurship, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46:11, 2218-2239, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1656058
(2020) Proximities and the emergence of regional industry: evidence of
the liability of smallness in Malta, European
Planning Studies, 28:2, 380-399, DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2019.1668915
Yamamura, S., & Lassalle, P. (2019). Approximating entrepreneurial superdiversity: reconceptualizing the superdiversity debate in ethnic minority entrepreneurship. Journal of ethnic and migration studies. Link
Yamamura, S., & Lassalle, P. (2019). Proximities and the emergence of regional industry: evidence of the liability of smallness in Malta. European planning studies. Link
Yamamura, S. (2019). Transnational professionals’ socio-spatialventuring out to the Tokyo global city-region. Regional studies, regional science, 6(1), 512-519. Link
Hassink, R., Hu, X., Shin, D. H., Yamamura, S., & Gong, H. (2018). The restructuring of old industrial areas in East Asia. Area Development and Policy, 3(2), 185-202. Link
Yamamura, S. (2009). „Brain Waste “ausländischer Ärztinnen und Ärzte in Deutschland. Wirtschaftsdienst, 89(3), 196-201. DOI: 10.1007/s10273-009-0910-2
Working Papers
Yamamura, S., & Lassalle, P. (2019). Approximating entrepreneurial superdiversity: reconceptualizing the superdiversity debate in ethnic minority entrepreneurship. MMG Working Paper, (19-02). Link
Mayer, M., Yamamura,S., Schneider, J., & Müller, A. (2012). Immigration of international students from third countries. Study by the German National Contact Point for the European Migration Network (EMN). Bonn, Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.