Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific

This book is open access under a CC BY license. This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen due to immigration and policies related to education, politics, language, work, citizenship and identity.

Autorentext
Takumi Honda, Ryukoku University, Japan Lee Gunderson, University of British Columbia, Canada Toshinobu Nagamine, Kumamoto University, Japan Mitsunori Takakuwa, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan Rieko Karatani, Kansai University, Japan Maria Reinaruth D. Carlos, Ryukoku UniversityJapan Shincha Park Binghamton University-SUNY, USA Julian Chapple, Ryukoku University, Japan

Inhalt
This book is open access under a CC BY license. 1. Introduction; Kosuke Shimizu and William S. Bradley PART I 2. Multicultural Coexistence in Japan: Follower, Innovator, or Reluctant Late Adopter?; William S. Bradley 3. A Critical Analysis of Multiculturalism and Deviant Identities: Untold Stories of Japanese Americans without Nations; Takumi Honda 4. Theorizing Multiculturalism: Modeling the Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in School-Based Multicultural Settings; Lee Gunderson PART II 5. Who Owns Our Tongue? English, Academic Life and Subjectivity; Kosuke Shimizu 6. Preservice and Inservice English as a Foreign Language Teachers' Perceptions of the New Language Education Policy Regarding the Teaching of Classes in English at Japanese Senior High Schools; Toshinobu Nagamine 7. An Alternative Approach to Foreign Language Education in Japan with a View Toward Becoming a Multicultural Society; Mitsunori Takakuwa PART III 8. Female Domestic Workers on the Move: Examining GlobalHouseholding and Global De-Householding in Today's World; Rieko Karatani 9. Multiculturalism as a Determinant of the Transit and Final Destinations in the Stepwise Migration of Filipino Nurses; Maria Reinaruth D. Carlos 10. Who Benefits from Dual Citizenship? The New Nationality Law and Multicultural Future of South Korea; Shincha Park 11. 'Global Jinzai,' Japanese Higher Education and the Path to Multiculturalism: Imperative, Imposter or Immature?; Julian Chapple