Glenda S Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 284455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenda S Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenda S |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Waseda University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4320-2131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field
Despite rapid demographic decline, until recently, low-skilled migrant workers have been welcomed only through ‘side-doors’ such as technical interns (TITP). Yet pressure for change comes from two sides: the moral critique of the ‘side-door’ scheme, and the growing economic pressures of a dwindling labor force. In 2018 Japan put in place a short-term bona-fide labor scheme (Specified Skilled Worker; hereafter, SSW) in fields previously largely in…
Introduction to special section: ‘Gender, family and work in the 21 st century: Challenges and transformations’
The work, family and care nexus in Paris and Tokyo: Gender equality and well-being among urban professionals
Based on 51 qualitative interviews of middle- to upper-middle-class women and men in their thirties through early fifties in Paris and Tokyo from 2018 to 2020, this qualitative research seeks to develop a comparative understanding of how women and men reconcile the diverse commitments of work and family in two post-industrial societies by querying such topics as the contexts for dual-career households, the meanings of work for women and men, work…
Leaningoutfor the long span: What holds women back from promotion in Japan
Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In advised women to seize opportunities to climb the ranks of a corporation. Yet many of Japan’s growing cohort of corporate women warriors deliberately opt not to lean in. This article, based on ethnographic interviews with a group of these women, explores their survival strategies of building a career while embedded in still traditional gender roles over marriage and childrearing. Will these strategies evolve as companies…
An Immigration Policy by Any Other Name: Semantics of Immigration to Japan
This survey examines the ways in which the Japanese government controls the flow of foreign migrants across and within its borders. It does this in practice by taking steps to admit increasing numbers of migrants from abroad, without using the term imin (immigrants). Although a diverse body of migrants resides in and contributes to the country, the taboo surrounding the use of the word imin allays public concern for increasing diversity while all…
Letter from Seaa President Glenda Roberts
Bottom Up, Top Down, and Sideways: Studying Corporations, Government Programs, and NPOs
Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives
Journal Article Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives Get access Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives , by Anne Stefanie Aronsson . London : Routledge , 2014 , 256 pp., $145.00 (ISBN 978-1-13-802518-9 ) Glenda S. ROBERTS Glenda S. ROBERTS Waseda University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 19, Issue …
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty
What are people's life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to understanding Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively reveal a questioning of middle-class ideals once considered the essence of Japaneseness. In the postwar model household a man was expected to obtain a job at a major firm that offered life-long employment; his counterpart, the "profession…
Salary Women and Family Well-Being in Urban Japan
Few well-educated Japanese women manage to maintain regular full-time employment while raising a family. Yet, with governmental initiatives designed to shore up the birthrate, it is arguably easier to do so now than ever before. How do women in career-oriented jobs conceive of the well-being of themselves and their families? In this article the author explores this question through data from qualitative interviews with working mothers in continuo…
"Immigrants or Temporary Workers? A Visionary Call for a "Japanese-style Immigration Nation
Since the Democratic Party took power in Japan with the Hatoyama administration in September 2009, there has been little movement on immigration issues in Japanese politics. There has, however, been notable discussion by civil society commentators who are advocating the establishment of some form of regularized immigration policy as a partial solution to Japan's demographic decline. Among them one could mention the policy proposals made by the Co…
Labor Migration to Japan: Comparative Perspectives on Demography and the Sense of Crisis
This set of papers is adapted from the panel, "Labor Migration to Japan: Demography and the Sense of Crisis," held at the Association of Asian Studies meetings in March, 2007. As the chair and discussant of the panel, I would like to introduce these papers to the Japan Focus audience. If there ever was a notion that a straightforward relationship exists between population decline, on the one hand, and the welcoming of immigration in a transparent…
Women in Motion: Globalization, State Policies, and Labor Migration in Asia
Women's Working Lives in East Asia (review)
Reviewed by: Women's Working Lives in East Asia Glenda S. Roberts (bio) Women's Working Lives in East Asia. Edited by BrintonMary C.. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2001. xv, 378 pages. $60.00, cloth; $24.95, paper. This is a border-crossing, edited volume that queries the socioeconomic and cultural factors surrounding women's working lives in three economies of East Asia. Brinton's introduction argues the worthiness of the comparison: Japa…
Doing Fieldwork in Japan
Doing Fieldwork in Japan taps the expertise of North American and European specialists on the practicalities of conducting long-term research in the social sciences and cultural studies. In lively first-person accounts, they discuss their successes and failures doing fieldwork across rural and urban Japan in a wide range of settings: among religious pilgrims and adolescent consumers; on factory assembly lines and in high schools and wholesale sea…
On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass
The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a wealthy and sucessful society. Carolyn S. Stevens has produced a new study that intimately explores the lives of Japan's social outcasts as well as tho…
Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches
Social policies reflect and construct important ideas in societies about the relationship between the state and the individual. This 2002 book examines this relationship in a number of hitherto unexplored areas in Japanese society including policies relating to fertility, peri-natal care, child care, child abuse, sexuality, care for the aged and death. The conclusion is that a great change has taken place in all these areas through the 1990s as a…
An introduction to this issue's special topic: Gendering contemporary Japan
Journal Article An introduction to this issue's special topic: gendering contemporary Japan Get access G Roberts G Roberts Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 3, Issue 1, April 2000, Pages 1–2, https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/3.1.1 Published: 01 April 2000
Japan and Global Migration: Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society
Despite being long thought of as immune to the globalising effect of immigrant labour, now Japan has 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, form households with Japanese nationals and are spread throughout the country. With the country's impending population decline, a rapidly aging society, a low wage service sector and income disparities…
Japan's Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity
Careers and Commitment: Azumi's Blue-Collar Women
Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience
Between Policy and Practice: Japan's Silver Human Resource Centers as Viewed from the Inside
The Silver Human Resource Centers (SHRC) were first established in 1980 to address the economic and psychological needs of Japan's growing numbers of senior citizens. The Centers, through which people are introduced to jobs in their locales and from which they receive remuneration for services performed, are by now well established throughout Japan. This article examines the gap between SHRC members' evaluations of the Centers and the Center guid…
Migrant Workers in Japan
Part 1 Introduction: revision of the Immigration Act and the situation of foreign workers human rights violations beginnings of a gradual opening striking roots and the effects of recession. Part 2 How do foreign workers enter Japan?: role of brokers unauthorized labour in the guise of trainees Japanese language schools and Shugakusei. Part 3 Situation of workers according to sector: the sex and entertainment industry manufacturing sector constru…
Staying on the Line: Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan
The traditional Japanese ideology of ryosai kenbo--good wife, wise mother--has relegated women to the home after marriage and childbirth. But in increasing numbers, Japanese women are choosing to remain in the workplace long past those milestones, despite the uneasy and sometimes hostile response of management to their persistence. Glenda Roberts spent a year at a large garment manufacturer in the Kansai region of Japan, working on the assembly l…
Women in Motion: Globalization, State Policies, and Labor Migration in Asia
On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass
The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a wealthy and sucessful society. Carolyn S. Stevens has produced a new study that intimately explores the lives of Japan's social outcasts as well as tho…
Salary Women and Family Well-Being in Urban Japan
Few well-educated Japanese women manage to maintain regular full-time employment while raising a family. Yet, with governmental initiatives designed to shore up the birthrate, it is arguably easier to do so now than ever before. How do women in career-oriented jobs conceive of the well-being of themselves and their families? In this article the author explores this question through data from qualitative interviews with working mothers in continuo…
Leaningoutfor the long span: What holds women back from promotion in Japan
Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In advised women to seize opportunities to climb the ranks of a corporation. Yet many of Japan’s growing cohort of corporate women warriors deliberately opt not to lean in. This article, based on ethnographic interviews with a group of these women, explores their survival strategies of building a career while embedded in still traditional gender roles over marriage and childrearing. Will these strategies evolve as companies…
The work, family and care nexus in Paris and Tokyo: Gender equality and well-being among urban professionals
Based on 51 qualitative interviews of middle- to upper-middle-class women and men in their thirties through early fifties in Paris and Tokyo from 2018 to 2020, this qualitative research seeks to develop a comparative understanding of how women and men reconcile the diverse commitments of work and family in two post-industrial societies by querying such topics as the contexts for dual-career households, the meanings of work for women and men, work…
Japan's Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity
Women in the Japanese Workplace
Staying on the Line: Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan
The traditional Japanese ideology of ryosai kenbo--good wife, wise mother--has relegated women to the home after marriage and childbirth. But in increasing numbers, Japanese women are choosing to remain in the workplace long past those milestones, despite the uneasy and sometimes hostile response of management to their persistence. Glenda Roberts spent a year at a large garment manufacturer in the Kansai region of Japan, working on the assembly l…
The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality.Sumiko Iwao
Staying on the Line: Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan
Staying on the Line: Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan
Between Policy and Practice: Japan's Silver Human Resource Centers as Viewed from the Inside
The Silver Human Resource Centers (SHRC) were first established in 1980 to address the economic and psychological needs of Japan's growing numbers of senior citizens. The Centers, through which people are introduced to jobs in their locales and from which they receive remuneration for services performed, are by now well established throughout Japan. This article examines the gap between SHRC members' evaluations of the Centers and the Center guid…
Migrant Workers in Japan
Part 1 Introduction: revision of the Immigration Act and the situation of foreign workers human rights violations beginnings of a gradual opening striking roots and the effects of recession. Part 2 How do foreign workers enter Japan?: role of brokers unauthorized labour in the guise of trainees Japanese language schools and Shugakusei. Part 3 Situation of workers according to sector: the sex and entertainment industry manufacturing sector constru…
Careers and Commitment: Azumi's Blue-Collar Women
Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience
Japan and Global Migration: Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society
Despite being long thought of as immune to the globalising effect of immigrant labour, now Japan has 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, form households with Japanese nationals and are spread throughout the country. With the country's impending population decline, a rapidly aging society, a low wage service sector and income disparities…
Japan's Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity
An introduction to this issue's special topic: Gendering contemporary Japan
Journal Article An introduction to this issue's special topic: gendering contemporary Japan Get access G Roberts G Roberts Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 3, Issue 1, April 2000, Pages 1–2, https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/3.1.1 Published: 01 April 2000
Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches
Social policies reflect and construct important ideas in societies about the relationship between the state and the individual. This 2002 book examines this relationship in a number of hitherto unexplored areas in Japanese society including policies relating to fertility, peri-natal care, child care, child abuse, sexuality, care for the aged and death. The conclusion is that a great change has taken place in all these areas through the 1990s as a…
Doing Fieldwork in Japan
Doing Fieldwork in Japan taps the expertise of North American and European specialists on the practicalities of conducting long-term research in the social sciences and cultural studies. In lively first-person accounts, they discuss their successes and failures doing fieldwork across rural and urban Japan in a wide range of settings: among religious pilgrims and adolescent consumers; on factory assembly lines and in high schools and wholesale sea…
On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass
The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a wealthy and sucessful society. Carolyn S. Stevens has produced a new study that intimately explores the lives of Japan's social outcasts as well as tho…
Women's Working Lives in East Asia (review)
Reviewed by: Women's Working Lives in East Asia Glenda S. Roberts (bio) Women's Working Lives in East Asia. Edited by BrintonMary C.. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2001. xv, 378 pages. $60.00, cloth; $24.95, paper. This is a border-crossing, edited volume that queries the socioeconomic and cultural factors surrounding women's working lives in three economies of East Asia. Brinton's introduction argues the worthiness of the comparison: Japa…
Women in Motion: Globalization, State Policies, and Labor Migration in Asia
Labor Migration to Japan: Comparative Perspectives on Demography and the Sense of Crisis
This set of papers is adapted from the panel, "Labor Migration to Japan: Demography and the Sense of Crisis," held at the Association of Asian Studies meetings in March, 2007. As the chair and discussant of the panel, I would like to introduce these papers to the Japan Focus audience. If there ever was a notion that a straightforward relationship exists between population decline, on the one hand, and the welcoming of immigration in a transparent…
"Immigrants or Temporary Workers? A Visionary Call for a "Japanese-style Immigration Nation
Since the Democratic Party took power in Japan with the Hatoyama administration in September 2009, there has been little movement on immigration issues in Japanese politics. There has, however, been notable discussion by civil society commentators who are advocating the establishment of some form of regularized immigration policy as a partial solution to Japan's demographic decline. Among them one could mention the policy proposals made by the Co…
Salary Women and Family Well-Being in Urban Japan
Few well-educated Japanese women manage to maintain regular full-time employment while raising a family. Yet, with governmental initiatives designed to shore up the birthrate, it is arguably easier to do so now than ever before. How do women in career-oriented jobs conceive of the well-being of themselves and their families? In this article the author explores this question through data from qualitative interviews with working mothers in continuo…
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty
What are people's life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to understanding Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively reveal a questioning of middle-class ideals once considered the essence of Japaneseness. In the postwar model household a man was expected to obtain a job at a major firm that offered life-long employment; his counterpart, the "profession…
Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives
Journal Article Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives Get access Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives , by Anne Stefanie Aronsson . London : Routledge , 2014 , 256 pp., $145.00 (ISBN 978-1-13-802518-9 ) Glenda S. ROBERTS Glenda S. ROBERTS Waseda University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 19, Issue …
Bottom Up, Top Down, and Sideways: Studying Corporations, Government Programs, and NPOs
An Immigration Policy by Any Other Name: Semantics of Immigration to Japan
This survey examines the ways in which the Japanese government controls the flow of foreign migrants across and within its borders. It does this in practice by taking steps to admit increasing numbers of migrants from abroad, without using the term imin (immigrants). Although a diverse body of migrants resides in and contributes to the country, the taboo surrounding the use of the word imin allays public concern for increasing diversity while all…
Sociology (19 works) · Economics (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Japanese History and Culture (10 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Japan (7 works) · History (6 works)