1st Edition
Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies How Attractive for Migrants are Japan and Germany?
This book argues that a new perspective on immigration is needed: as Western societies age, and their populations stagnate or decline, and immigrants are increasingly required, the old view that it is a privilege for immigrants to move from less developed to more developed countries needs to be replaced by questions about how attractive host countries are to immigrants, and not just in economic, but also in social, political and cultural terms.
Considering in detail the situation in Japan and Germany, the book analyses the needs of host countries from a demographic standpoint, the desires of migrants in terms of education, training, and labour market participation, and policies and actions on the part of the state and civil society in rendering moving to and living in these countries worthwhile.
Bringing together leading scholars, practitioners, and NGO representatives active in diverse aspects of migration, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars with an interest in immigration issues in Germany and Japan, and Europe and Asia more broadly.
1. Attractive immigrants or attractive for immigrants? Two ageing societies and migration, Aeneas Zi Wang 2. Immigration-related language policy in Germany, Christoph Schroeder 3. Multi-language service as omotenashi and tatemae: Japanese local governments’ challenges and limitations, Yoshiyuki Asahi 4. Does easy language promote integration? Japanese and German perspectives, Goro Christoph Kimura 5. The gravitation of “authentic” arts: Field-specific logics of visual art and music students’ mobility, Takuma Fujii 6. The myth of Vietnamese IT and engineering professionals being “shin-nichi”? Their short-term participation in the Japanese labour market, Aimi Muranaka 7. Spurwechsel in German migration policy, Christian Joppke 8. Promised (Deutsch)land? West Germany’s attractiveness as a migration destination for the Greeks in the 1960s, Maria Adamopoulou 9. Changes and continuity in Japan’s deportation regime, Toake Endoh 10. Japan’s Technical Intern Training Programme as transnational total institution: Between exploitation and functionality, David Chiavacci 11. Coming to terms with a changing reality, Florian Coulmas
Biography
Aeneas Zi Wang is an Associate Professor at the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Nanjing University, China.
Aimi Muranaka is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Florian Coulmas is a Senior Professor at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
