The global age of migration is fast becoming a permanent feature of Japanese life, impacting the country's economic, social, and political landscape. The twelve essays collected here bring together the most up-to-date, original research on foreign workers and households from a variety of perspectives. Throughout, three key questions are addressed: Does the recent wave of migration constitute a new multicultural age that challenges Japan's identity as a homogenous society? How do foreign workers confront the many difficulties of living in Japan? How is Japanese society both resisting and accommodating the growing presence of foreign workers in its communities? Japan and Global Migration is a much-needed and timely contribution to the literature on Japan and cultural difference and required reading for anyone concerned with the future of Japanese society.
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"An intelligent and comprehensive volume on [a] critical subject." -- Japan Times
"The variety of author approaches and frequent comparative references to experience elsewhere have generated a richly rewarding volume." -- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
"The variety of author approaches and frequent comparative references to experience elsewhere have generated a richly rewarding volume." -- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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Mike Douglass is professor of urban planning at the University of Hawai'i. Glenda S. Roberts is professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University.
Contributors: Mike Douglass, John Lie, Takashi Machimura, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, David Pollack, Glenda S. Roberts, Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak, Katsuko Terasawa, Michael Weiner, Keiko Yamanaka, Keizo Yamawaki.
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Long thought to be immune from the globalization of labor migration, Japan has over the past decade begun to experience quantum increases in the numbers of women and men who have not simply come to work and quickly returned home, but are also bringing families, forming new households with Japanese nationals, and residing in neighborhoods in cities and regions throughout the country. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
incorporation programs, local internationalization, spouse visa, spousal visa, inward internationalization, undocumented foreigners, internationalization project, visa overstayers, foreign migrants, foreign spouse, legal migrants, sham marriages, visa status, foreign workers, immigration office, local bureaucrats, foreign residents, visa extension Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Second World War, Ministry of Justice, New York, United States, Ministry of Labor, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo Metropolis, Immigration Bureau, University of California Press, Japanese Brazilian, Nikkei Latin Americans, Hong Kong, International Offices, Asahi Shimbun, Japan Immigration Association, Akashi Shoten, City Hall, World Apartment Horror, Cambridge University Press, North America, Stanford University Press, Supreme Court, United Nations, Clarendon Press, Japan Times New!
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Long thought to be immune from the globalization of labor migration, Japan has over the past decade begun to experience quantum increases in the numbers of women and men who have not simply come to work and quickly returned home, but are also bringing families, forming new households with Japanese nationals, and residing in neighborhoods in cities and regions throughout the country. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
incorporation programs, local internationalization, spouse visa, spousal visa, inward internationalization, undocumented foreigners, internationalization project, visa overstayers, foreign migrants, foreign spouse, legal migrants, sham marriages, visa status, foreign workers, immigration office, local bureaucrats, foreign residents, visa extension Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Second World War, Ministry of Justice, New York, United States, Ministry of Labor, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo Metropolis, Immigration Bureau, University of California Press, Japanese Brazilian, Nikkei Latin Americans, Hong Kong, International Offices, Asahi Shimbun, Japan Immigration Association, Akashi Shoten, City Hall, World Apartment Horror, Cambridge University Press, North America, Stanford University Press, Supreme Court, United Nations, Clarendon Press, Japan Times New!
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- International Migration 1995: Migrants Entering or Leaving the United Kingdom and England and Wales (MN) by Office for National Statistics on 7 pages
- Age of Migration, The: International Population Movements in the Modern World by Stephen; Miller, Mark J. Castles on 4 pages
- Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective by Wayne Cornelius on 4 pages
- Far Eastern Economic Review on 4 pages
- Race and Migration in Imperial Japan (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series) by Michael Weiner on 4 pages
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- Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland by Takeyuki Tsuda in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities by Eric P. Kaufmann on page 177, and page 178
- Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy by Allen J. Scott on page 261, and Back Matter
- Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities by Eric P. Kaufmann on page 177, and page 178
- Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism by Jeffrey Lesser on page 195, and page 200
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