Bibliograph

Immigrant Japan, mobility and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society, Gracia Liu-Farrer

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Immigrant Japan, mobility and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society, Gracia Liu-Farrer

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Immigrant Japan

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Gracia Liu-Farrer

Sub title

mobility and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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