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Local Citizenship in Recent Countries of Immigration
Japan in Comparative Perspective
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2006
Summary
Because of severe domestic labor shortages, Japan has recently joined the increasing number of advanced industrialized nations that have begun importing large numbers of immigrant workers since the 1980s. Although the citizenship status of foreign workers is the most precarious in such recent countries of immigration, the national governments of these countries have become increasingly preoccupied with border enforcement, forcing local municipalities and organizations to offer basic rights and social services to the foreign residents who are settling in their local communities. This book analyzes the development of local citizenship in Japan by examining the role of local governments and NGOs as well as grass-roots political and judicial activism in the expansion of immigrant rights. In this manner, localities are emerging as important sites for the struggle for immigrant citizenship and social integration, enabling foreign workers to enjoy substantive rights even in the absence of national citizenship. The possibilities and limits of such local citizenship in Japan are then compared to three other recent countries of immigration (Italy, Spain, and South Korea).
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2006
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1193-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5725-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
307
Product type
Edited Book
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CHAPTER 1 Localities and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights:The Significance of Local Citizenship in Recent Countries of Immigration TAKEYUKI TSUDA No access
CHAPTER 2 Japan's Demographic Future and the Challenge of Foreign Workers CHIKAKO USUI No access
CHAPTER 3 Cities and Local Citizenship in Japan: Overcoming Nationality?KATHERINE TEGTMEYER PAK No access
CHAPTER 4 Immigrant Incorporation and Women's Community Activities in Japan: Local NGOs and Public Educationfor Immigrant Children KEIKO YAMANAKA No access
CHAPTER 5 Policy Advocacy for Foreign Residents in Japan DEBORAH J. MILLY No access
CHAPTER 6 Looking Outward: International Legal Norms and Foreigner Rights in Japan AMY GUROWITZ No access
CHAPTER 7 Does Hospitality Translate into Integration? Subnational Variations of Italian Responses to Immigration HARLAN KOFF No access
CHAPTER 8 Nongovernmental versus Governmental Actors? Multilevel Governance and Immigrant Integration Policy in Spain BELEN AGRELA AND GUNTHER DIETZ No access
CHAPTER 9 NGOs, Transnational Migrants, and the Promotion of Rights in South Korea TIMOTHY C. LIM No access
CHAPTER 10 The Limits of Local Citizenship and Activism in Japan and Other Recent Countries of Immigration TAKEYUKI TSUDA No access
