00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685675941131398200 Buklod 20230927144055.0 m |o d | cr ||||||||||| 230927s2019||||nyu agr bs001 0|eng 9781438475516 (hardcover : alk. paper) 20755882 LBSOR/DLC eng rda LBSOR DLC eng JV 8723 S87 2019 Strausz, Michael author. Help (not) wanted immigration politics in Japan Michael Strausz. Albany State University of New York Press [2019] ©2019 xv, 197 pages illustrations 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Foreign Laborers, Not Immigrants -- Help Wanted: Immigration Restriction in a World of Labor Shortages, Aging Populations, and Refugee Crises -- Minority Rights and Minority Invisibility: Oldcomer Koreans in Japan -- The Crow is White: Foreign Labor and the Japanese State -- Asylum as Exception -- Is Another Japan Possible? Public Opinion and Immigration Reformists -- Japanese Immigration in the Age of Trump. "In Help (Not) Wanted, Michael Strausz offers an original and provocative answer to a question that has long perplexed observers of Japan: Why has Japan's immigration policy remained so restrictive, especially in light of economic, demographic, and international political forces that are pushing Japan to admit more immigrants? Drawing upon insights that he developed during twenty-two months of intensive field research in Japan, Strausz ultimately argues that Japan's immigration policy has remained restrictive for two reasons: first, Japan's labor-intensive businesses have failed to defeat anti-immigration forces within the Japanese state, particularly those in the Ministry of Justice and the Japanese Diet; and second, no influential strain of elite thought in postwar Japan exists to support the idea that significant numbers of foreign nationals have a legitimate claim to residency and membership. This book is particularly timely at a moment shaped by Brexit, the election of Trump, and the rise of anti-immigrant political parties and nativist rhetoric across the globe"-- Provided by publisher. Foreign workers Japan. Japan Emigration and immigration Government policy. Japan Emigration and immigration Social aspects. FO UPD DAC JV 8723 S87 2019 Book