Migrant Labour in Japan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780333804322
Subjects: Immigration & emigration; Labour economics; Political structure & processes; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; History : Asia - Japan; Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations; Social Science / Emigration & Immigration; Social Science : Emigration & Immigration; Asia - Japan; Emigration & Immigration; Alien labor; Japan; Social integration
Description: "Since the mid-1980s, Japan has become one of the major destinations for foreign migrant workers. Despite the recession, the number of overstayers has remained constant. This book explores the emergence of the social, economic, and political influences exerted by foreign migrants on Japanese society in the 1990s and explains how some of the components of sovereign power over immigration control have been reshaped under the influence of economic globalization."--BOOK JACKET.