The Grass is Always Greener?

This edited book unpacks the nature of Central Asian migration to East Asia. This book uses the case of Uzbekistan, the most populous country of Central Asia, and demonstrates the migration channels and adaptation strategies of migrants to the realities of Japan. What are the foreign policy engagements of Japan in Central Asia? How do they relate to the intensifying educational mobility and labour migration from Central Asia (in particular, Uzbekistan) to Japan? By answering these two questions, this book aims to detail the social factors that play important roles in localizing foreign policy engagements and narrating them in terms easily understood by the public.

Unpacks the nature of Central Asian migration to East Asia Demonstrates the migration channels and adaptation strategies of migrants to the realities of Japan and South Korea Aims to detail the social factors that play important roles in localizing foreign policy engagements

Autorentext

Timur Dadabaev is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tsukuba, Japan.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Craving for Jobs: Revisiting Semi-skilled Labor Migration from Uzbekistan to Japan and South Korea.- Chapter 2. A guest for a day? Uzbek Newcomers in the Japanese Educational and Labor Market.- Chapter 3. A Home Away from Home: Migration, Identity and 'Sojourning' in the life of Uzbeks in Japan.- Chapter 4. Gendered face of Uzbek migration to Japan.- Chapter 5. Role of ethnicity, religion, community in settlement practices of Uzbekistani in Japan.- Chapter 6. Changing Patterns of Student Mobility from Uzbekistan to Japan in the post-Soviet Period: A Case Study of Students.