Full Description
This book analyzes the relationship between migration and social sustainability in Japan and examines the transformation of its foreign-national and ethnic minority population over the past thirty years while critically assessing Japan's immigration and integration policies and their domestic and inter-regional social effects.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
PART I Patterns of Migration and Settlement in Japan and Creating a Sustainable Society
Chapter 1. The diversification of Japan's foreign-born and ethnic minority population and its relationship to social sustainability
Chapter 2. Japan's Chinese migrant community in transformation and its symbolic representations
Chapter 3. From a Vietnamese village to a Japanese factory: transforming migration patterns of Vietnamese technical interns
Chapter 4. Is nurse migration under Economic Partnership Agreements sustainable? Challenges and prospects of the EPA program
Chapter 5. Indians in Japan: becoming visible in a 'closed' society
PART II Discrimination and social vulnerabilities
Chapter 6. Understanding online racism in Japan in global and local context
Chapter 7 Aging as a Korean resident in Japan: Minority care-giving and the construction of collective memory
Chapter 8 Aging and care for Returnees from China: Facets of intercultural care in a postcolonial world
Conclusion: Japan's multi-ethnic future
