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

by Douglass,Mike

• ISBN13: 9780415191104
• ISBN10: 0415191106
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Japan and Global Migrationbrings together current research on foreign workers and households from a variety of different perspectives. The book asks three major questions: whether the recent wave of migration constitutes a new multicultural age challenging Japan's identity as homogeneous society; how foreign workers confront the many difficulties living in Japan; and how Japanese society is both resisting and accomodating the growing presence of foreign workers in their communities.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
List of tables	x
Contributors	xii
Acknowledgements	xiv
PART I Global and historical perspectives on migration to Japan	1	(120)
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	(30)
Mike Douglass
PART II Livelihood and living in Japanese workplaces and communities	121	(96)
``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	(21)
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
PART III Government policies and community responses	217	(84)
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