Research Catalog

Title

Japan and global migration : foreign workers and the advent of a multicultural society / edited by Mike Douglass and Glenda S. Roberts.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Douglass, Mike
• Roberts, Glenda Susan, 1955-

Description

xiii, 306 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Japan and Global Migration brings together current 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 books asks three major questions: whether the recent wave of migration constitutes a new multicultural age challenging Japan's identity as a homogenous society; how foreign workers confront the many difficulties of living in Japan; and how Japanese society is both resisting and accommodating the growing presence of foreign workers in the community."
• "The book contains the most up-to-date, original data on Japanese migrant culture available. Its inescapable conclusion is that the multi-cultural 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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Japan > Emigration and immigration > Congresses
• Japan > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• bibliography.
• graph.
• bibliographie.
• graphique.
• bibliografía.
• gráfico.

Note

• Conference papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Japan in a global age of migration / Mike Douglass and Glenda S. Roberts -- Foreign workers in Japan / 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 / Mike Douglass -- "I will go home, but when?" / Keiko Yamanaka -- Aliens, gangsters and myth in Kon Satoshi's World Apartment Horror / David Pollack -- Local settlement patterns of foreign workers in Greater Tokyo / 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 / Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak -- NGO support for migrant labor in Japan / Glenda S. Roberts.

ISBN

0415191106 (hb : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99024302^

OCLC

• 41118533
• SCSB-13917434

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library