Immigration and Citizenship in Japan

AvErin Aeran Chung

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-05-01
Mått:153 x 230 x 18 mm
Vikt:350 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:222
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107637627

Utforska kategorier

Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Erin Aeran Chung is the Charles D. Miller Assistant Professor of East Asian Politics and Co-Director of the Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) Program in the Department of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University. Previously, she was an Advanced Research Fellow at Harvard University's Program on US-Japan Relations and a Japan Foundation Fellow at Saitama University in Urawa, Japan. Her articles on citizenship, noncitizen political engagement, and comparative racial politics have been published in the Du Bois Review and Asian Perspective. In 2009, she was awarded an Abe Fellowship by the Social Science Research Council to conduct research in Japan and Korea for her second book project on immigrant incorporation in ethnic democracies.

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'Through her detailed study, Chung shows that immigration, nationality, and citizenship are political issues which involve not only the legal position of Japan's former colonial subjects but also the social context in which all people live their lives.' Ronni Alexander, Japanese Journal of Political Science

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Is Japan an outlier? Cross-national patterns of immigrant incorporation and noncitizen political engagement; 2. Constructing citizenship and non-citizenship in postwar Japan; 3. Negotiating Korean identity in Japan; 4. Citizenship as political strategy; 5. Destination Japan: global shifts, local transformations; Conclusion.