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(★)(Despite being long thought of as immune to the globalizing effect of immigrant labor, Japan has now begun to experience major increases in the numbers of foreign workers. These migrants do not just come to work and return home, but bring families and form households with Japanese nationals. They are spread throughout the country. With the country´s impending population decline, a rapidly aging society, a low-wage service sector and income disparities, it seems that the global age of migration is to become a permanent, if uncomfortable, feature of Japanese life. ´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 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. Mike Douglass is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Hawaii. His recent books include co-editing ´Culture and the City in East Asia´ and ´Cities for Citizens : Planning and the Rise of the Global Age.´ Glenda S. Roberts is Associate Professor at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University. She is the author of ´Staying on the Line : Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan.´) |
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