Global Japan : the experience of Japan's new immigrant and overseas communities / edited by Roger Goodman [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The experience of Japan's new migrants and overseas communities in anthropological, geographical, historical and sociological perspective / Roger Goodman, Ceri Peach, Ayumi Takenaka and Paul White -- 2. Contrasts in economic growth and immigration policy in Japan, the European Union and the United States / Ceri Peach -- 3. The Pacific-Asian context of international migration to Japan / Huw Jones -- 4. Policy problems relating to labour migration control in Japan / Hiroaki Miyoshi -- 5. The Japanese in London: from transience to settlement? / Paul White -- 6. Segregation and the ethnoscape: the Japanese business community in Dusseldorf / Gunther Glebe -- 7. The Japanese in Singapore: the dynamics of an expatriate community / Eyal Ben-Ari -- 8. The Japanese community in Hong Kong in the 1990s: the diversity of strategies and intentions / Chie Sakai -- 9. Living in a transnational community within a multi-ethnic city: making a localised 'Japan' in Los Angeles / Takashi Machimura -- 10. Iranian immigrant workers in Japan and their networks / Toyoko Morita -- 11. The lifestyles and ethnic identity of Vietnamese youth residing in Japan / Masami Shingaki and Shinichi Asano -- 12. The changing perception and status of Japan's returnee children (kikokushijo) / Roger Goodman -- 13. Nikkei communities in Japan / Daniela De Carvalho -- 14. Transnational strategies by Japanese-Brazilian migrants in the age of IT / Angelo Ishi -- 15. Paradoxes of ethnicity-based immigration: Peruvian and Japanese-Peruvian migrants in Japan / Ayumi Takenaka.

"The Japanese have long regarded themselves as a homogenous nation, clearly separate from other nations. However, the present international reality of increased global population movement, which has resulted in the establishment both of significant Japanese communities outside Japan, and of large non-Japanese minorities within Japan, is undermining this long-standing view, and forcing the Japanese to re-conceptualise their nationality in new and more flexible ways. This book provides a comprehensive overview of these issues, examining the context of immigration to and emigration from Japan, considering the development of important Japanese overseas communities in six major cities worldwide, and the experience of six important immigrant communities in Japan, and assessing the consequences of all this for Japanese people's view of themselves as a nation."--Publisher description.

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