Professor Ralph Hosoki of the Department of Sociology specializes in global and transnational sociology and focuses on understanding the factors that shape the degree to which protections are conferred to globally itinerant populations such as migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, and trafficked persons. While control over how to treat itinerant populations is certainly in large part the sovereign prerogative of host countries, his research finds that global factors such as international (human rights) norms that lie beyond/outside of any single country, are to varying degrees, consequential in shaping how this control gets “expressed” in relevant policies.

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