Labour Migration From China To Japan

Author : Gracia Liu-Farrer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136766169

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Labor 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. The majority of them enter Japan’s labor market and many have stayed on indefinitely. This book investigates this educationally channeled labor migration from China to Japan giving 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 examines the labor market outcomes of international student migration and explores how these outcomes contribute to our understanding of international migration and international education in an age of globalization.

Author : Hiroshi Komai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136162152

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Migrant Workers In Japan by Hiroshi Komai Pdf

First Published in 1995. The issue of foreign workers in Japan has already reached a turning point, as they are quickly changing from a flow into a group of settled residents. This change has been accompanied by a great deal of research in Japan, but there have been precious few attempts to grasp the problem in a unified manner, and this book, based on the author’s own field research, represents such an attempt.

Author : Gracia Liu-Farrer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136766152

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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 Japan’s labour market and many have stayed on indefinitely. Based on the author’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 students’ 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.

Author : Pál Nyíri,Igor Saveliev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000160581

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Globalizing Chinese Migration by Pál Nyíri,Igor Saveliev Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. Globalizing Chinese Migration is the first volume to deal comprehensively with the most recent wave of the migration from the People's Republic of China to Europe and Asia. By analyzing the Chinese state’s role in this migration, the authors dismiss as fiction the theory (sometimes advanced by hostile and racist foreign observers) that Chinese authorities are intent on using mass emigration as an expansionist tool. They go on to explain that migrants who might, in earlier times, have been reviled as traitors and absconders are today more likely to be viewed by sections of the Chinese state bureaucracy as patriots who remain part of China’s polity and economy and contribute to its standing overseas. Some senior officials, however, particularly diplomats, stress the harm done by new migrants, both to China’s economy (which loses assets as a result of the migrants’ entrepreneurial activities) and to its reputation in the world. An essential resource for academics and students alike, the volume presents important new data on aspects of Chinese migration largely neglected in the existing English-language literature. These include new forms of emigration from China (by students and by workers from the country’s north-eastern provinces) and emigration to destinations (including Russia, Southeast Asia, and Japan) normally unremarked by students of population movements.

Author : Gracia Liu-Farrer,Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317337249

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Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations by Gracia Liu-Farrer,Brenda S.A. Yeoh Pdf

Housing more than half of the global population, Asia is a region characterised by increasingly diverse forms of migration and mobility. Offering a wide-ranging overview of the field of Asian migrations, this new handbook therefore seeks to examine and evaluate the flows of movement within Asia, as well as into and out of the continent. Through in-depth analysis of both empirical and theoretical developments in the field, it includes key examples and trends such as British colonialism, Chinese diaspora, labour migration, the movement of women, and recent student migration. Organised into thematic parts, the topics cover: The historical context to migration in Asia Modern Asian migration pathways and characteristics The reconceptualising of migration through Asian experiences Contemporary challenges and controversies in Asian migration practice and policy Contributing to the retheorising of the subject area of international migration from non-western experience, the Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations will be useful to students and scholars of migration, Asian development and Asian Studies in general.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789164180322

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Labour Migration and the Recent Financial Crisis in Asia by OECD Pdf

This series of reports identifies the impact of the Asian financial crisis on labour migration and the conditions of migrant workers in the region.

Author : John Connell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Industries
ISBN : 0867586796

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Kitanai, Kitsui and Kiken by John Connell Pdf

Author : Ruth Achenbach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658160272

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Return Migration Decisions by Ruth Achenbach Pdf

Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in return migration decision making of Chinese highly skilled workers and students in Japan. She proposes to answer a question yet insufficiently explained by migration research: why do migrants deviate from their migration intentions and return sooner or later than planned, or not at all? Her study integrates factors from the spheres of career, family and lifestyle, and redefines stages in long-term decision-making processes, thereby contributing to decision and migration theory. She analyzes migrants’ shifting priorities over the course of migration, including a perspective on life course and on the impact of the triple catastrophe of March 11, 2011.

Author : Gracia Liu-Farrer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Mike Douglass,Glenda Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134655090

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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 : Stephen Robert Nagy
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : H. Mori
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Angela Lehmann,Pauline Leonard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137544339

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Destination China by Angela Lehmann,Pauline Leonard Pdf

This book is a compelling account of China’s response to the increasing numbers of ‘foreigners’ in its midst, revealing a contradictory picture of welcoming civility, security anxiety and policy confusion. Over the last forty years, China’s position within the global migration order has been undergoing a remarkable shift. From being a nation most notable for the numbers of its emigrants, China has increasingly become a destination for immigrants from all points of the globe. What attracts international migrants to China and how are they received once they arrive? This timely volume explores this question in depth. Focusing on such diverse migrant communities as African traders in Guangzhou, Japanese call center workers in Dalian, migrant restaurateurs in Shanghai, marriage migrants on the Vietnamese borderlands, South Korean parents in Beijing, Europeans in Xiamen and Western professionals in Hong Kong, as well as the booming expansion of British and North American English language teachers across the nation, the accounts offered here reveal in intimate detail the motivations, experiences, and aspirations of the diversity of international migrants in China.

Author : Yoshitaka Ishikawa
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Wilbert Gooneratne,Philip L. Martin,Hidehiko Sazanami
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Asia
ISBN : UCSD:31822021129440

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Regional Development Impacts of Labour Migration in Asia by Wilbert Gooneratne,Philip L. Martin,Hidehiko Sazanami Pdf