Southeast Asian refugee resettlements in Japan and the USA
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9974748 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kasumi K Hirayama (corresponding author), Hisashi Hirayama, Yasuhiro Kuroki |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 165-176 |
| Publication date | 1995-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002087289503800206 |
| OpenAlex | W2162595919 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Over the past 17 years we have conducted a number of research studies on a variety of resettlement issues facing Southeast Asian refugees in the United States; we have also served as consultants to several local refugee resettlement programs. In the summer of 1991 1 we had the opportunity to conduct a field study in Japan. We visited the International Refugee Assistance Center (IRAC) in Tokyo, meeting and discussing problems with government officials and social workers who were engaged in resettlement work with South-east Asian refugees. Despite the fact that Japan and the US have the same objective for resettling refugees in their societies, namely, assimilation with self-sufficiency, we learned in this visit that Japan and the US have developed essentially different approaches to the resettlement: Japan uses an ’institutionalized approach ’ while the US uses an ’individualized ’ one. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the approaches used in Japan and the US in order to identify common as well as different issues involved in each approach and to identify the knowledge and skills needed to assist refugees. Although this paper focuses on Japan and the US, we assume that such knowledge would be equally or partially applicable to other countries which offer permanent resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees. Background The resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees has two unique charac-teristics: (1) resettling from developing countries into industrialized
Archaeology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Refugee · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Southeast asia · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Migration and Labor Dynamics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 1996 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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