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Japan’s Border Restrictions in the Time of the Covid-19 Emergency

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ID7419312
AuthorsNicola Costalunga (0000-0001-8254-8405, University of Macerata, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume2021
Issue54
Publication date2021-07-12
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTwo Homelands (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0353-6777 • E-ISSN: 1581-1212
PublisherThe Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3986/dd.2021.2.06
OpenAlexW3185633435
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

With the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting COVID-19 pandemic, Japan adopted controversial policies to contain the virus. Unlike many highly developed countries, it enacted strict policies banning entry through its borders to all non-Japanese citizens regardless of their residency status. The further peculiarity is that these measures equalized low-skill and high-skill foreign workers, affecting them identically. Along with describing how the emergency has been handled in relation to foreign nationals, this article highlights how pre-existing socio-cultural dynamics of differentiation between “insiders” and “outsiders” have evolved in response to the pandemic

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Development economics · Economics · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Outbreak · Pandemic · Political science · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Virology

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