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

List of contents

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

About the author

Mike Douglass, Glenda Roberts

Summary

This book contains the most up-to-date, original data on Japanese migrant culture available. Its inescapable conclusion is that the multicultural age has finally come to Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Mike Douglass, Douglass Mike, Glenda Roberts, Roberts Glenda
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.1999
• EAN: 9780415191104
• ISBN: 978-0-415-19110-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 750 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, Regional Studies, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General