Japan and Global Migration : Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society

ISBN-13: 9780415191104 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 320 str.

Mike Douglass; Glenda Susan Roberts

Opis

Brings together late-1990s 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 foreign workers confront the many difficulties living in Japan; and how Japanese society is both resisting and accommodating the growing presence of foreign workers in their communities. This book contains up-to-date data on Japanese migrant culture. Its inescapable conclusion is that the multicultural age has finally come to Japan; the question is whether foreign workers will be legally and socially assimilated into the fabric of Japanese society or will continue to be treated as temporary entrants with limited civil rights. The book is written with postgraduate students in Asian studies, Japanese studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and migration studies in mind.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Mike Douglass, Glenda Roberts