Immigration and Citizenship in Japan

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 222
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Japan is currently the only advanced industrial democracy with a fourth-generation immigrant problem. As other industrialized countries face the challenges of incorporating postwar immigrants, Japan continues to struggle with the incorporation of prewar 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Tables and Figures......Page 9
Conventions and Abbreviations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Immigration and Citizenship in Japan......Page 16
Introduction: The Contradictions of Japan's Immigration and Citizenship Politics......Page 18
1 - Is Japan an Outlier? Cross-National Patterns of Immigrant Incorporation and Noncitizen Political Engagement......Page 45
2 - Constructing Citizenship and Noncitizenship in Postwar Japan......Page 77
3 - Negotiating Korean Identity in Japan......Page 99
4 - Citizenship as Political Strategy......Page 132
5 - Destination Japan: Global Shifts, Local Transformations......Page 161
Conclusion......Page 190
References......Page 202
Index......Page 216

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