Migration and the Life Course in Contemporary Japan

• FIELDING Anthony J.

  School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex

• ISHIKAWA Yoshitaka

  Department of Geography

Abstract

This paper explores the relationship between migration and the life course in Japan. It does so by analysing a matrix of correlation coefficients where each coefficient measures the relationship between a set of age-specific net internal migration rates by prefecture (for example, for people aged 24-29), and a set of age structure location quotients by prefecture (for example, for people aged 60-64) (the location quotient measures the ratio of the local % in a particular age-group to the national % for the same age-group). An extremely distinctive pattern of correlation emerges. This is analysed both on its own terms, and through a comparison with the equivalent pattern for Britain (England, Wales and Scotland). Surprising differences are discovered and interpreted.

Journal

• Geographical Review of Japan

  Geographical Review of Japan 76 (12), 882-893, 2003

  The Association of Japanese Geographers

Keywords

• migration
• Japan
• Britain
• age structure
• life course

Details

• CRID: 1390001205203787392
• NII Article ID: 10013252063
• NII Book ID: AA11591990
• DOI: 10.4157/grj.76.12_882
• ISSN: 21851727
• ISSN: 13479555
• Text Lang: en
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