Immigrant Japan

Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society

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ID19988388
AuthorsG Liu-Farrer (0000-0003-3241-8703, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages276
Publication date2020-04-15
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueImmigrant Japan (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/cornell/9781501748622.001.0001
OpenAlexW4254534726
Open LibraryOL28059827M
ISBN9781501748622
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as this book shows, millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ethno-nationalist country. Why do people want to come to Japan? Where do immigrants with various resources and demographic profiles fit in the economic landscape? How do immigrants narrate belonging in an environment where they are “other” at a time when mobility is increasingly easy and belonging increasingly complex? The book illuminates the lives of these immigrants by bringing in sociological, geographical, and psychological theories—guiding the reader through life trajectories of migrants of diverse backgrounds while also going so far as to suggest that Japan is already an immigrant country

Contradiction · Geography · Immigration · Nationalism · New immigrants · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Citizenship · emigration and immigration · Ethnic relations · Group identity · Immigrants · Japan · Social interaction

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