Akemi Matsumura

Researcher interested in gender, migration and law between Latin America and Europe. Seven years of experience in cultural research and teaching at University level.

• March 2025. Marriage & Care Migration: Opportunity or Oppression. Regrad Bleu Ethnographic Film Festival, Zürich, Switzerland. Presentation.
• August 2024. Peruvian Women in Germany: Old and New Challenges of High-Skilled Female Professionals. 22nd Nordic Migration Research Conference, University of Bergen, Norway. Presentation.
• January 2024. Family Building by High-Skilled Peruvian Women in Post-Lockdown Conditions in Germany. Mobile Professionals and Families Symposium, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland. Presentation.
• June 2021. De la crisis a la deconstrucción: Reflexiones sobre las masculinidades en jóvenes universitarios. Conversatorio, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Project management and presentation.
• February 2019. «Los niños aquí van solos al colegio». Maternidad en las encrucijadas de la migración de peruanas en Aichi, Japón. Anthropologica, 37(43), 85-106. https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.201902.004
• January 2017. Matsumura, A. Performance e identidad: Etnografía de la Comunidad Nikkei en Lima. Debates, conflictos y desafíos en la construcción de narrativas de identidad nikkei. Revista Pacarina del Sur, 8(32). ISSN: 2007-2309.

• 2023-PRESENT Katholischer Akademischer Auslander Dienst (KAAD) Scholarship
• 2023 GRADE Starting scholarship for international doctoral candidates GU Frankfurt am Main
• 2015-2018 Japanese government scholarship for master studies (MEXT).
• 2014 PADET academic research funding PUCP

• Jan 2025-Present

Volunteer Content Creator Related with Anthropology and Popular Science.

“OE (Observación y educación Perú) Plataforma". Online

• Jul-Aug2012 Volunteer English Teacher with community children in circumstances of social vulnerability.

ADAPTE NGO. Brasilia, Brazil AIESEC University Exchange program

• 2015-2017 Spanish Speaker Guest Assisting Spanish practice sessions with Japanese JICA volunteers.

JICA Center. Nagano, Japan.

• Dr. Prof. Catherine, Whittaker, GU professor, whittaker@em.uni-frankfurt.de
• Dr. Prof. Raúl Renato Romero PUCP professor rromero@pucp.edu.pe
• Dr. Prof. Norma Fuller Osores PUCP professor Emerita nfuller@pucp.pe

Singing
Guitar playing
Dancing
Film making
Books reading