ISBN:
0203986784
,
9780203986783
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 241 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Global Japan
DDC:
304.852
Keywords:
Japanese Foreign countries
;
Aliens Japan
;
Intercultural communication
;
Aliens
;
Japanese
;
Aliens
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Intercultural communication
;
Japanese ; Foreign countries
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration
;
Japan Emigration and immigration
;
Japan
;
Japan Emigration and immigration
;
Japan
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Chapter 1 The experience of Japan's new migrants and overseas communities in anthropological, geographical, historical and sociological perspective /ROGER GOODMAN --part Part I Comparative context --chapter 2 Contrasts in economic growth and immigration policy in Japan, the European Union and the United States /CERI PEACH --chapter 3 The Pacific-Asian context of international migration to Japan /HUW JONES --chapter 4 Policy problems relating to labour migration control in Japan /HIROAKI MIYOSHI --part Part II Japanese overseas communities --chapter 5 The Japanese in London: from transience to settlement? /PAUL WHITE --chapter 6 Segregation and the ethnoscape: the Japanese business community in Düsseldorf /GÜNTHER GLEBE --chapter 7 The Japanese in Singapore: the dynamics of an expatriate community /EYAL BEN-ARI --chapter 8 The Japanese community in Hong Kong in the 1990s: the diversity of strategies and intentions /CHIE SAKAI --chapter 9 Living in a transnational community within a multi-ethnic city: making a localised 'Japan' in Los Angeles /TAKASHI MACHIMURA --part Part III Japan's new migrant groups --chapter 10 Iranian immigrant workers in Japan and their networks1 /TOYOKO MORITA --chapter 11 The lifestyles and ethnic identity of Vietnamese youth residing in Japan /MASAMI SHINGAKI --chapter 12 The changing perception and status of Japan's returnee children (kikokushijo) /ROGER GOODMAN --chapter 13 Nikkei communities in Japan /DANIELA DE CARVALHO --chapter 14 Transnational strategies by Japanese-Brazilian migrants in the age of IT /ANGELO ISHI --chapter 15 Paradoxes of ethnicity-based immigration: Peruvian and Japanese-Peruvian migrants in Japan /AYUMI TAKENAKA.
Abstract:
The Japanese have long regarded themselves as a homogenous nation, clearly separate from other nations. However, this long-standing view is being undermined by the present international reality of increased global population movement. This has resulted in the establishment both of significant Japanese communities outside Japan, and of large non-Japanese minorities within Japan, and has forced the Japanese to re-conceptualise their nationality in new and more flexible ways.This work provides a comprehensive overview of these issues and examines the context of immigration to and emigration f
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
