1st Edition
Japan and Global Migration Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
I: Global and historical perspectives on migration to Japan; 1: Japan in a global age of migration; 2: Foreign workers in Japan; 3: Japan in the age of migration; 4: The discourse of Japaneseness; 5: The singularities of international migration of women to Japan; II: Livelihood and living in Japanese workplaces and communities; 6: “I will go home, but when?”; 7: Aliens, gangsters and myth in Kon Satoshi's World Apartment Horror; 8: Local settlement patterns of foreign workers in Greater Tokyo; 9: Identities of multiethnic people in Japan; III: Government policies and community responses; 10: Labor law, civil law, immigration law and the reality of migrants and their children; 11: Foreigners are local citizens too; 12: NGO support for migrant labor in Japan
Biography
Mike Douglass, Glenda Roberts
