Immigration and Citizenship in Japan

This book investigates democratic inclusion in Japan, the only advanced industrial democracy with a fourth-generation immigrant problem.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Is Japan an outlier? Cross-national patterns of immigrant incorporation and noncitizen political engagement; 2. Constructing citizenship and non-citizenship in postwar Japan; 3. Negotiating Korean identity in Japan; 4. Citizenship as political strategy; 5. Destination Japan: global shifts, local transformations; Conclusion.

About the author

Erin Aeran Chung is the Charles D. Miller Assistant Professor of East Asian Politics and Co-Director of the Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) Program in the Department of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University. Previously, she was an Advanced Research Fellow at Harvard University's Program on US-Japan Relations and a Japan Foundation Fellow at Saitama University in Urawa, Japan. Her articles on citizenship, noncitizen political engagement, and comparative racial politics have been published in the Du Bois Review and Asian Perspective. In 2009, she was awarded an Abe Fellowship by the Social Science Research Council to conduct research in Japan and Korea for her second book project on immigrant incorporation in ethnic democracies.

Summary

This book examines how state policies and immigrant advocacy groups shape choices for immigrant political incorporation in contemporary Japan through the lens of Japan's multi-generational Korean community. With immigrant agency at the center of its analysis, this book challenges conventional understandings of citizenship that associate citizenship acquisition with political empowerment.

Product details

• Authors: Erin Aeran Chung, Erin Aeran (The Johns Hopkins University) Chung, Chung Erin Aeran
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9781107637627
• ISBN: 978-1-107-63762-7
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Print on demand
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Japan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, Comparative Politics, Migration, immigration and emigration, Civics and citizenship, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples