She has worked on gender, marriage migration, and migration policies in Japan. Her recent publications includes ‘Marriage Migration: Love in Brokered Marriages in Contemporary Japan,’ in Dirk Hoerder and Amarjit Kaur (eds), Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations: A Global Perspective on Continuities and Discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st Centuries (Brill, 2013) and “Under the Multicultural Flag: Japan’s Ambiguous Multicultural Framework and its Local Evaluations and Practices” (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2013). She is currently researching language and family relations in intermarriages among Japanese transnational migrants in Australia