Japan And Global Migration

Author : Mike Douglass,Glenda Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134655090

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Japan and Global Migration brings together current research on foreign workers and households from a variety of different perspectives. This influx has had a substantial impact on Japan's economic, social and political landscape. The book asks three major questions: whether the recent wave of migration constitutes a new multicultural age challenging Japan's identity as homogenous society; how foreign workers confront the many difficulties living in Japan; how Japanese society is both resisting and accommodating the growing presence of foreign workers in their communities. This book contains the most up to date, original data on Japanese migrant culture available. Its inescapable conclusion is that the multicultural age has finally come to Japan; the question is whether foreign workers will be legally and socially assimilated into the fabric of Japanese society or will continue to be treated as temporary entrants with limited civil rights. The book is written with postgraduate students in Asian studies, Japanese studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and migration studies, in mind.

Author : Mike Douglass,Glenda Susan Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Japan
ISBN : OCLC:1285659424

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Author : Yoshitaka Ishikawa
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Aliens
ISBN : 1920901914

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International Migrants in Japan by Yoshitaka Ishikawa Pdf

Japan faces multiple challenges in an era of population decline. Problems such as aging and a decreasing working-age population are expected to increase in severity, so tackling these challenges and examining the contributions that immigrants can make to society are vital for Japan's future. What contributions do foreign residents make to Japan, especially in the labor market? How do national and local government policies effect the settlement and permanent residence of foreign nationals? Are issues - such as social mobility and quality of life of foreigners, the fertility of foreign women, and long-term trends in naturalization - important? What support does Japan offer to immigrants? As a 'new' country of immigration, the need to examine such questions is growing. This book takes a geographical perspective in examining the necessity of immigration and how foreign residents are helping to alleviate the problem of population decline in contemporary Japan. *** "Over the last thirty years Japan has become a country of immigration again. While the literature on migration to Japan is growing, reliable data on the issue is still scarce.Yoshitaka Ishikawa's edited volume is a major contribution to filling this void. Overall the papers compiled in the book are a good introduction to the complex and multifaceted realities of newcomer migrants and shed light on some understudied quantitative and qualitative aspects of migration to Japan. --Pacific Affairs, Vol. 89, No. 4, December 2016 (Series: Japanese Society) [Subject: Sociology, Japanese Studies, Asian Studies, Migration Studies, Labor Studies]

Author : Roger Goodman,Ceri Peach,Ayumi Takenaka,Paul White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134431441

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Global Japan by Roger Goodman,Ceri Peach,Ayumi Takenaka,Paul White Pdf

The Japanese have long regarded themselves as a homogenous nation, clearly separate from other nations. However, this long-standing view is being undermined by the present international reality of increased global population movement. This has resulted in the establishment both of significant Japanese communities outside Japan, and of large non-Japanese minorities within Japan, and has forced the Japanese to re-conceptualise their nationality in new and more flexible ways. This work provides a comprehensive overview of these issues and examines the context of immigration to and emigration from Japan. It considers the development of important Japanese overseas communities in six major cities worldwide, the experiences of immigrant communities in Japan, as well as assessing the consequences for the Japanese people's view of themselves as a nation.

Author : Shindo, Reiko
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529201871

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Belonging in Translation by Shindo, Reiko Pdf

This is the first book to investigate how migrants and migrant rights activists work together to generate new forms of citizenship identities through the use of language. Shindo's book is an original take on citizenship and community from the perspective of translation, and an alluring amalgamation of theory and detailed empirical analysis based on ethnographic case studies of Japan.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264851016

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International Migration Outlook 2019 by OECD Pdf

The 2019 edition of the International Migration Outlook analyses recent developments in migration movements and policies in OECD countries and some non-OECD economies. It also examines the evolution of labour market outcomes of immigrants in OECD countries.

Author : Demetrios G. Papademetriou,Kimberly A. Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110226086

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Reinventing Japan by Demetrios G. Papademetriou,Kimberly A. Hamilton Pdf

Examines Japan's approach to immigration in the context of the nation's wider process of economic and political reform, arguing that Japan will always have to adopt a more open immigration policy if it is to ensure its place as a global leader.

Author : Suma Ikeuchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1503607968

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Jesus Loves Japan by Suma Ikeuchi Pdf

After the introduction of the "long-term resident" visa, the mass-migration of Nikkeis (Japanese Brazilians) has led to roughly 190,000 Brazilian nationals living in Japan. While the ancestry-based visa confers Nikkeis' right to settlement virtually as a right of blood, their ethnic ambiguity and working-class profile often prevent them from feeling at home in their supposed ethnic homeland. In response, many have converted to Pentecostalism, reflecting the explosive trend across Latin America since the 1970s. Jesus Loves Japan offers a rare window into lives at the crossroads of return migration and global Pentecostalism. Suma Ikeuchi argues that charismatic Christianity appeals to Nikkei migrants as a "third culture"--one that transcends ethno-national boundaries and offers a way out of a reality marked by stagnant national indifference. Jesus Loves Japan insightfully describes the political process of homecoming through the lens of religion, and the ubiquitous figure of the migrant as the pilgrim of a transnational future.

Author : Stephen Robert Nagy
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814678889

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Japan's Demographic Revival by Stephen Robert Nagy Pdf

Japan's Demographic Revival shifts discussions about employing immigration as the 'best' or 'sole' solution to assuaging Japan's demographic quagmire to a more systematic approach that identifies structural, organizational and cultural impediments that contribute to Japan's (and other countries') declining demographic situations. This edited volume also sheds light on the plethora of changes required to produce a demographically sustainable Japan.Part One includes chapters explaining the endogenous, ethnocultural and structural obstacles that link ethnocultural understandings of citizenship and nationality. Part Two consists of chapters that provide insight into the societal barriers that exist in Japan to address demographic issues. Part Three shifts its focus away from identifying and analyzing the structural, organizational and cultural factors towards chapters that are policy oriented, linking existing policies as contributing factors behind Japan's demographic challenge.

Author : Tetsuo Mizukami
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004154797

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The sojourner community [electronic resource] by Tetsuo Mizukami Pdf

This book refines the concept of the sojourner vis-a-vis settler which demonstrates the growing significance in contemporary migration issues. It also illustrates the characteristic patterns of contemporary migration by analysing statistical as well as empirical data on Japanese residency in Australia.

Author : Mike Douglass,Glenda Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134655106

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Japan and Global Migration by Mike Douglass,Glenda Roberts Pdf

Japan and Global Migration brings together current research on foreign workers and households from a variety of different perspectives. This influx has had a substantial impact on Japan's economic, social and political landscape. The book asks three major questions: whether the recent wave of migration constitutes a new multicultural age challenging Japan's identity as homogenous society; how foreign workers confront the many difficulties living in Japan; how Japanese society is both resisting and accommodating the growing presence of foreign workers in their communities. This book contains the most up to date, original data on Japanese migrant culture available. Its inescapable conclusion is that the multicultural age has finally come to Japan; the question is whether foreign workers will be legally and socially assimilated into the fabric of Japanese society or will continue to be treated as temporary entrants with limited civil rights. The book is written with postgraduate students in Asian studies, Japanese studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and migration studies, in mind.

Author : H. Mori
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230374522

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Immigration Policy and Foreign Workers in Japan by H. Mori Pdf

In the second half of the 1980s Japan has emerged as one of the new major destination countries for migrants from Asia. The migrant labour pool was then joined by Japanese descendants from South American countries in the 1990s. Japan's policy of keeping the labour market closed to foreign unskilled workers has remained unchanged despite the 1990 immigration policy reform, which met the growing need for unskilled labour not by opening the 'front-door' to unskilled workers but by letting them in through intentionally-provided 'side-doors'. This book throws light on various aspects of migration flows to Japan and the present status of migrant workers as conditioned by Japan's immigration control system. The analysis aims to explore how the massive arrival of migrants affected Japan's immigration policy and how the policy segmented the foreign labour market in Japan.

Author : Gracia Liu-Farrer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501748646

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Immigrant Japan by Gracia Liu-Farrer Pdf

Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ethno-nationalist country. Why do people want to come to Japan? Where do immigrants with various resources and demographic profiles fit in the economic landscape? How do immigrants narrate belonging in an environment where they are "other" at a time when mobility is increasingly easy and belonging increasingly complex? Gracia Liu-Farrer illuminates the lives of these immigrants by bringing in sociological, geographical, and psychological theories—guiding the reader through life trajectories of migrants of diverse backgrounds while also going so far as to suggest that Japan is already an immigrant country.

Author : Tadashi Hanami,Myron Weiner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349144181

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Temporary Workers or Future Citizens? by Tadashi Hanami,Myron Weiner Pdf

Japan and the United States are under global and domestic pressures to simultaneously expand and to restrict immigration. In both countries migration, refugee and citizenship policies have become highly contentious political issues. Myron Weiner and Tadashi Hanami have brought together a distinguished group of American and Japanese experts to examine the very different approaches of these two societies in dealing with employer demand for labour, control over illegal migration, the challenge of incorporating immigrants, the legal rights and social benefits of foreign residents and illegal migrants, and the claims of refugees and asylum seekers.

Author : Gracia Liu-Farrer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415600227

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Labour Migration from China to Japan by Gracia Liu-Farrer Pdf

Chinese students are the largest international student population in the world, and Japan attracts more of them than any other country. Since the mid-1980s when China opened the door to let private citizens out and Japan began to let more foreigners in, over 300 thousand Chinese have arrived in Japan as students. Student migrants are the most visible, controversial and active Chinese immigrants in Japan. The majority of them enter Japanâe(tm)s labour market and many have stayed on indefinitely. Based on the authorâe(tm)s original fieldwork data and government statistics, this book gives a comprehensive portrayal of an often neglected group of international migrants in a society that for decades has been considered a non-immigrant country. It introduces Chinese studentsâe(tm) diverse mobility trajectories, analyses their career patterns, describes their transnational living arrangements, and explores the mechanisms that give rise to their identity as 'new overseas Chinese'. This book contributes to our understanding of international migration and international education in an age of globalization. It points out that student migrants are key to the internationalization of Japanese society, and potentially in other countries where immigration is still considered a challenging reality. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Sociology and Labour Studies.