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Immigrant Japan: mobility and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society

Immigrant Japan: mobility and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society CONTEMPORARY JAPAN BOOK REVIEW Immigrant Japan: mobility and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society, by Gracia Liu-Farrer, Ithaca, NY and London, Cornell University Press, 2020, 259 pp., US $39.95 (hardcover), ISBN 9781501748622 Under the somewhat provocative title of Immigrant Japan, Gracia Liu-Farrer has penned an extraordinarily insightful study that draws on some 200 in-depth interviews with immigrants in Japan. The sample covers immigrants of different ages, nationalities and ethnic backgrounds, different professions, and migration paths. What they have in common is that they all have spent several years living and studying or working in Japan. In this book, Liu-Farrer puts their life stories center-stage, and neatly contextualizes them with theories from the fields of sociology, geography, and psychology. Liu-Farrer argues that Japan has in fact become an immigration country. This is a remarkable hypothesis to put forward since policymakers in Japan continue to deny that the government pursues an immigration policy, and the number of Japan’s foreign population is low compared to that of other OECD countries (p. 3). The various labor migration schemes that are in place are predominantly designed for a short- to medium-term residence, but not for settlement, and they are being promoted to the con- cerned http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

Immigrant Japan: mobility and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society

Vogt, Gabriele
Contemporary Japan , Volume OnlineFirst: 3 – Oct 13, 2021
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Immigrant Japan: mobility and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society

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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN BOOK REVIEW Immigrant Japan: mobility and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society, by Gracia Liu-Farrer, Ithaca, NY and London, Cornell University Press, 2020, 259 pp., US $39.95 (hardcover), ISBN 9781501748622 Under the somewhat provocative title of Immigrant Japan, Gracia Liu-Farrer has penned an extraordinarily insightful study that draws on some 200 in-depth interviews with immigrants in Japan. The sample covers immigrants of different ages, nationalities and ethnic...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2021 Gabriele Vogt
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1869-2737
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1869-2729
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10.1080/18692729.2021.1988195
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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN BOOK REVIEW Immigrant Japan: mobility and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society, by Gracia Liu-Farrer, Ithaca, NY and London, Cornell University Press, 2020, 259 pp., US $39.95 (hardcover), ISBN 9781501748622 Under the somewhat provocative title of Immigrant Japan, Gracia Liu-Farrer has penned an extraordinarily insightful study that draws on some 200 in-depth interviews with immigrants in Japan. The sample covers immigrants of different ages, nationalities and ethnic backgrounds, different professions, and migration paths. What they have in common is that they all have spent several years living and studying or working in Japan. In this book, Liu-Farrer puts their life stories center-stage, and neatly contextualizes them with theories from the fields of sociology, geography, and psychology. Liu-Farrer argues that Japan has in fact become an immigration country. This is a remarkable hypothesis to put forward since policymakers in Japan continue to deny that the government pursues an immigration policy, and the number of Japan’s foreign population is low compared to that of other OECD countries (p. 3). The various labor migration schemes that are in place are predominantly designed for a short- to medium-term residence, but not for settlement, and they are being promoted to the con- cerned

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Contemporary Japan – Taylor & Francis

Published: Oct 13, 2021

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  • Jūmin kihon daichō ni motozuku jinkō, jinkō dōtai oyobi setaisū no pointo [Key points about the state of the population and the households based on the citizen account book]