1st Edition
Japan's Modern Immigration Regime Contradiction and Continuity
By Maximilien Xavier Rehm
Copyright 2027
240 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book explores the policymaking processes that led to Japan’s modern immigration regime, including the rejection of formal immigration policy and its wider implications.
Taking a historical approach, the book identifies the “1990 system” -- namely the reforms Japan’s policymakers enacted in and around 1990 -- as the crucial antecedent to understanding the overall continuity in the country’s... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The Japanese Immigration Regime
3. What Led to the “Foreign Worker Problem?”
4. To Open or to Close?
5. The 1990 System Takes Hold
6. Incremental Change, For the Better?
7. Abe’s Breakthrough?
8. How the Status Quo Could Change
Biography
Maximilien Xavier Rehm is a postdoctoral research assistant at the Graduate School of Global Studies at Doshisha University, Japan.
