1st Edition
Global Labour Migration in Japan The Everyday Spaces of Invisible Workers
Introduction. Japan in the Age of Global Labour Migration Chapter 1. Towards the Everyday Spaces of Global Labour Migration Chapter 2. Modernity, Homogeneity, and Migration in Japan Chapter 3. Unauthorized Migrant Workers and the Back-Door Channels Chapter 4. The Nikkeijin and the Side-Door Channels Chapter 5. Caregivers under Neoliberal Governance Chapter 6. Trainees under Neoliberal Governance Conclusion. Making Unskilled Migrant Workers Visible in Japan and Beyond
Biography
Hironori Onuki is a lecturer of Politics and International Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His research interests lie in the areas of international political economy, global migration, labour and work, gender relations, and human as well as national security, with special reference to the Asia-Pacific region. I have published a series of articles in journals such as Critical Sociology (2025), Alternatives: Global, Local, Political (2016), and New Political Economy (2009), and have contributed to edited books in English and Japanese, including The Handbook of Global Migration and Japan (forthcoming), Precarity and International Relations (2021), and Handbook of the International Political Economy of Gender (2018).
