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Immigration and citizenship in Japan / Erin Aeran Chung.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chung, Erin Aeran, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship--Japan.
- Citizenship.
- Assimilation (Sociology)--Japan.
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- Japan--Emigration and immigration.
- Japan.
- Japan--History--1945-.
- Japan--Social conditions.
- Japan--Politics and government--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Immigration & Citizenship in Japan
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Japan is currently the only advanced industrial democracy with a fourth-generation immigrant problem. As other industrialized countries face the challenges of incorporating post-war immigrants, Japan continues to struggle with the incorporation of pre-war immigrants and their descendants. Whereas others have focused on international norms, domestic institutions, and recent immigration, this book argues that contemporary immigration and citizenship politics in Japan reflect the strategic interaction between state efforts to control immigration and grassroots movements by multi-generational Korean resident activists to gain rights and recognition specifically as permanently settled foreign residents of Japan. Based on in-depth interviews and fieldwork conducted in Tokyo, Kawasaki, and Osaka, this book aims to further our understanding of democratic inclusion in Japan by analyzing how those who are formally excluded from the political process voice their interests and what factors contribute to the effective representation of those interests in public debate and policy.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The contradictions of Japan's immigration and citizenship politics
- Is Japan an outlier? cross-national patterns of immigrant incorporation and noncitizen political engagement
- Constructing citizenship and noncitizenship in postwar Japan
- Negotiating Korean identity in Japan
- Citizenship as political strategy
- Destination Japan: global shifts, local transformations.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-511-84648-7
- 1-107-20619-7
- 1-283-14947-8
- 9786613149473
- 0-511-71326-6
- 0-511-72258-3
- 0-511-71243-X
- 0-511-71451-3
- 0-511-71185-9
- 0-511-71576-5
- OCLC:
- 742332729
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