Labor migration from China to Japan : international students, transnational migrants / Gracia Liu-Farrer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liu-Farrer, Gracia, author.

Series:

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series ; 77.

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series ; 77

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor supply--China.

Labor supply.

Foreign workers, Chinese--Japan.

Foreign workers, Chinese.

Chinese students--Japan--Social conditions.

Chinese students.

International business enterprises--Japan.

International business enterprises.

Transnationalism.

China--Emigration and immigration.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chinese students are the largest international student population in the world, and Japan attracts more of them than any other country. Since the mid-1980s when China opened the door to let private citizens out and Japan began to let more foreigners in, over 300 thousand Chinese have arrived in Japan as students. Student migrants are the most visible, controversial and active Chinese immigrants in Japan. The majority of them enter Japan's labour market and many have stayed on indefinitely. Based on the author's original fieldwork data and government statistics, this book gives

Contents:

Fuji Dongying : a century of Chinese student migration to Japan

Parting at the starting point : visa overstaying as social process

Labouring to learn : student migrant life in Japan

Careers in Japan's transnational economy

Producing global economies from below : migrants' transnational entrepreneurship

Lives spanned across borders.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-76615-4

1-283-15131-6

9786613151315

1-136-76616-2

0-203-82264-1

9780203822647

OCLC:

730151670