1st Edition

Handbook of Global Migration and Japan

362 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

This handbook explores Japan's relationship with migration by reconceptualising the country from transnational perspectives. Through a critical reassessment of the traditional notion that Japan has an absence of immigration policy, this volume reveals the ways in which the Japanese state and society have, in practice, engaged with immigration issues. It explores incremental policy adaptations,... Read more

Introduction

Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi and Shinnosuke Takahashi

Part 1: Migration in Historical Perspective

1. Postwar Repatriation: Politics and Integration in the First Decade After the Defeat

Beatrice Trefalt

2. China as a Destination and Source of Migrants

Rowena Ward

3. Vietnamese Refugees in Japan: Their Past and Present

Takaya Hayashi

4. Nikkeijin as Japan’s Diaspora: The Role of Emigrants in Japanese National Development

Ayumi Takenaka

Part 2: Various Types of International Migration

5. Labor Migration in the Neoliberal World

Hironori Onuki

6. International Health Workers

Gabriele Vogt and Sian Qin

7. Youth Migration as a Lifestyle Choice

Kumiko Kawashima

8. Immigration Policy and Higher Education

Claudia Ishikawa

9. Refugee Protection and Asylum Policies of Japan

Naoko Hashimoto

Part 3: Migration and Significant Issues

10. The Nationality Act of Japan: Family, Nation, and the State

Sara Park

11. International Marriage and Divorce

Geraldine Carney

12. Educational Environments and the Development of the Mother Tongue

Tomoko Ochiai and Natsumi Uehara (Dinh Nguyen Thanh Vy)

13. “Recalling” Zainichi

Kohei Kawabata

14. At the Edge of Citizenship: Resisting the Logic of Immigration Surveillance

Hideki Inazu (translated by Yaskuko Hassall-Kobayashi and Shinnosuke Takahashi)

15. Immigrants and Hate Speech: An Analysis of Hate Speech Law in Japan.

Ayako Hatano

16. Local Governance for Immigrants

Deborah J. Milly

17. From Tabunka Kyōsei to Kyōsei with Foreign Human Resources: Policies for Integrating Migrants into Japan

Yoshikazu Shiobara

Part 4: International Mobility—Flows of Ideas

18. Strategic Mobility and Transnational Engagement: Japanese NGOs and International Volunteer Services in East Asia

Kyungmook Kim

19. Reconsidering Critical Regionalism in the Anthropocene

Alexander Ginnan

Editor(s)

Biography

Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi is Professor in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Musashi University, Japan.

Shinnosuke Takahashi teaches at Monash University, Australia, as a Lecturer in Japanese Studies.

Critics' Reviews

"The Handbook of Global Migration and Japan makes a major contribution by showing that Japan is not a marginal case, but a vital site for rethinking migration in a changing world. Bringing together historical depth, conceptual ambition, and close attention to contemporary realities, this volume challenges persistent myths of homogeneity and opens up new ways of understanding mobility, diversity, and belonging. It will become an indispensable reference for scholars and students of migration and Japan alike."

Professor Alan Gamlen, Director of the Australian National University Migration Hub.

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