ABSTRACT
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 book asks three major questions: whether the recent wave of migration constitutes a new multicultural age challenging Japan's identity as homogenous society; how foreign workers confront the many difficulties living in Japan; how Japanese society is both resisting and accommodating the growing presence of foreign workers in their communities.
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; 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|117 pages
Global and historical perspectives on migration to Japan
chapter 5|29 pages
The singularities of international migration of women to Japan
part II|100 pages
Livelihood and living in Japanese workplaces and communities
chapter 6|30 pages
“I will go home, but when?”
chapter 8|20 pages
Local settlement patterns of foreign workers in Greater Tokyo
part III|83 pages
Government policies and community responses