Japan and Global Migration

by Douglass, Mike; Roberts, Glenda Susan

• ISBN13: 9780824827427
• ISBN10: 0824827422
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

The global age of migration is fast becoming a permanent feature of Japanese life, impacting the country's economic, social, and political landscape. The twelve essays collected here bring together the most up-to-date, original 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 us a homogenous society? How do foreign workers confront the many difficulties of living in Japan? How is Japanese society both resisting and accommodating the growing presence of foreign workers in its communities? Japan and Global Migration is a much-needed and timely contribution to the literature on Japan and cultural difference and required reading for anyone concerned with the future of Japanese society.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	viii
Contributors	x
Acknowledgments	xii
Preface to the paperback edition	xiii
PART I Global and historical perspectives on migration to Japan
Japan in a global age of migration	3	(35)
Mike Douglass
Glenda S. Roberts
Foreign workers in Japan: a historical perspective	38	(14)
Keizo Yamawaki
Japan in the age of migration	52	(18)
Michael Weiner
The discourse of Japaneseness	70	(21)
John Lie
The singularities of international migration of women to Japan: past, present and future	91	(32)
Mike Douglass
PART II Livelihood and living in Japanese workplaces and communities
``I will go home, but when?'': labor migration and circular diaspora formation by Japanese Brazilians in Japan	123	(30)
Keiko Yamanaka
Aliens, gangsters and myth in Kon Satoshi's World Apartment Horror	153	(23)
David Pollack
Local settlement patterns of foreign workers in Greater Tokyo: growing diversity and its consequences	176	(20)
Takashi Machimura
Identities of multiethnic people in Japan	196	(23)
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
PART III Government policies and community responses
Labor law, civil law, immigration law and the reality of migrants and their children	219	(25)
Katsuko Terasawa
Foreigners are local citizens, too: local governments respond to international migration in Japan	244	(31)
Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak
NGO support for migrant labor in Japan	275	(26)
Glenda S. Roberts
Index	301