Migrant workers in Japan

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Migrant workers in Japan

Hiroshi Komai ; translated by Jens Wilkinson

(Japanese studies)

Routledge, 2010, c1995

  • : hbk

Other Title

Gaikokujin rōdōsha teijū e no michi

外国人労働者定住への道

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Reprint. Originally published: Kegan Paul International, 1993

English edition translated and edited from author's Japanese manuscript

Japanese edition published: Tokyo : Akashi Shoten, 1993

Copyright 1995 by author

Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-289) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

First Published in 1995. The issue of foreign workers in Japan has already reached a turning point, as they are quickly changing from a flow into a group of settled residents. This change has been accompanied by a great deal of research in Japan, but there have been precious few attempts to grasp the problem in a unified manner, and this book, based on the author's own field research, represents such an attempt.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Introduction: revision of the Immigration Act and the situation of foreign workers
  • human rights violations
  • beginnings of a gradual opening
  • striking roots and the effects of recession. Part 2 How do foreign workers enter Japan?: role of brokers
  • unauthorized labour in the guise of trainees
  • Japanese language schools and Shugakusei. Part 3 Situation of workers according to sector: the sex and entertainment industry
  • manufacturing sector
  • construction industry
  • service sector
  • other industries. Part 4 Foreign workers' housing and living situation: housing
  • formation of zones in concentrated housing
  • increasing role in local governments
  • foreigners and crime. Part 5 The Third World's structuralized labour exports: the stages of Asia's labour export
  • the exporting countries of Asia
  • Asia's host countries
  • Latin America. Part 6 Beyond the closed door-open door debate: the debate
  • trends in public opinion
  • resident Koreans and refugees
  • the theory of unavoidability.

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