Migration, Aging and Japan's Sustainable Society

Herausgegeben:Saveliev, Igor; Hall, Natalie-Anne

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the relationship between migration and social sustainability in Japan and examines the transformation of its foreign-national and ethnic minority population over the past thirty years while critically assessing Japan's immigration and integration policies and their domestic and inter-regional social effects.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781032886503
• ISBN-10: 1032886501
• Artikelnr.: 72541743

Autorenporträt

Igor Saveliev is Professor of History and Cultural Anthropology at the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan. Natalie-Anne Hall is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
PART I Patterns of Migration and Settlement in Japan and Creating a
Sustainable Society
Chapter 1. The diversification of Japan's foreign-born and ethnic minority
population and its relationship to social sustainability
Chapter 2. Japan's Chinese migrant community in transformation and its
symbolic representations
Chapter 3. From a Vietnamese village to a Japanese factory: transforming
migration patterns of Vietnamese technical interns
Chapter 4. Is nurse migration under Economic Partnership Agreements
sustainable? Challenges and prospects of the EPA program
Chapter 5. Indians in Japan: becoming visible in a 'closed' society
PART II Discrimination and social vulnerabilities
Chapter 6. Understanding online racism in Japan in global and local context
Chapter 7 Aging as a Korean resident in Japan: Minority care-giving and the
construction of collective memory
Chapter 8 Aging and care for Returnees from China: Facets of intercultural
care in a postcolonial world
Conclusion: Japan's multi-ethnic future

Rezensionen

Migration, Aging, and Japan's Sustainable Society provides essential insights into how Japan is dealing with demographic change by instrumentalizing immigration, as well as the responses of migrants and their communities. It is required reading for anyone interested in contemporary Japanese society and global migration issues.

(Sven Saaler, Sophia University, Tokyo)