Migration, Aging and Japan's Sustainable Society

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.

Autorentext

Igor Saveliev is Professor of History and Cultural Anthropology at the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan.

Natalie-Anne Hall is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.

Inhalt

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