Japan and global migration : foreign workers and the advent of a multicultural society

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Japan and global migration : foreign workers and the advent of a multicultural society

edited by Mike Douglass and Glenda S. Roberts

University of Hawaiʿi Press, 2003

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First published 2000 by Routledge

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Japan in a global age of migration / Mike Douglass and Glenda S. Roberts
  • Foreign workers in Japan : a historical perspective / Keizo Yamawaki
  • Japan in the age of migration / Michael Weiner
  • The discourse of Japaneseness / John Lie
  • The singularities of international migration of women to Japan : past, present and future / Mike Douglass
  • "I will go home, but when?" : labor migration and circular diaspora formation by Japanese Brazilians in Japan / Keiko Yamanaka
  • Aliens, gangsters and myth in Kon Satoshi's World Apartment Horror / David Pollack
  • Local settlement patterns of foreign workers in Greater Tokyo : growing diversity and its consequences / Takashi Machimura
  • Identities of multiethnic people in Japan / Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
  • Labor law, civil law, immigration law and the reality of migrants and their children / Katsuko Terasawa
  • Foreigners are local citizens, too : local governments respond to international migration in Japan / Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak
  • NGO support for migrant labor in Japan / Glenda S. Roberts

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The global age of migration is fast becoming a permanent feature of Japanese life, impacting the country's economic, social and political landscape. The 12 essays collected here bring together research on foreign workers and households from a variety of perspectives. Throughout, three key questions are addressed: does the recent wave of migration constitute a new multicultural age that challenges Japan's identity as a homogenous society?; how do foreign workers confront the many difficulties of living in Japan?; and how is Japanese society both resisting and accommodating the growing presence of foreign workers in its communities? This volume should be of interest to anyone concerned with the future of Japanese society. The contributors include John Lie, Takashi Machimura, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak and Michael Weiner.

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