TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liu-Farrer,Gracia
TI  - Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society 
SN  - 9781501748639
AV  - JV8722 .L58 2020
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - Japan
KW  - Group identity
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Social integration
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - Sociology & Social Science
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / Japan
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Immigration, Japan, Belonging, Ethno-nationalist society, immigrant country
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Japan as an Ethno-nationalist Immigrant Society --; 1. Immigrating to Japan --; 2. Migration Channels and the Shaping of Immigrant Ethno-scapes --; 3. Working in Japan --; 4. Weaving the Web of a Life in Japan --; 5. To Leave, to Return --; 6. Home and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society --; 7. Children of Immigrants: Educational Mobilities --; 8. Growing Up in Japan: Identity Journeys --; Conclusion: Realities, Challenges, and Promises of Immigrant Japan --; Appendix A: Methodological Notes --; Appendix B: Profiles of Informants Whose Names Appear in the Book --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Immigrant Japan?  Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants make their varied lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ethno-nationalist country. Why do people want to come to Japan? Where do immigrants with various resources and demographic profiles fit in the economic landscape? How do immigrants narrate belonging in an environment where they are "other" at a time when mobility is increasingly easy and belonging increasingly complex?Gracia Liu-Farrer illuminates the lives of these immigrants by bringing in sociological, geographical, and psychological theories—guiding the reader through life trajectories of migrants of various backgrounds, while also going so far as to suggest that Japan is already an immigrant country
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501748646?locatt=mode:legacy
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