Title Local citizenship in recent countries of immigration : Japan in comparative perspective / edited by Takeyuki Tsuda

Published Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; PART I INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Localities and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights:The Significance of Local Citizenship in Recent Countries of Immigration TAKEYUKI TSUDA; CHAPTER 2 Japan's Demographic Future and the Challenge of Foreign Workers CHIKAKO USUI; PART II MAKING IMMIGRANTS INTO LOCAL CITIZENS: SOCIAL INTEGRATION PROGRAMS IN JAPANESE CITIES; CHAPTER 3 Cities and Local Citizenship in Japan: Overcoming Nationality?KATHERINE TEGTMEYER PAK CHAPTER 4 Immigrant Incorporation and Women's Community Activities in Japan: Local NGOs and Public Educationfor Immigrant Children KEIKO YAMANAKAPART III ACTIVISM FOR IMMIGRANTS IN JAPAN: LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS; CHAPTER 5 Policy Advocacy for Foreign Residents in Japan DEBORAH J. MILLY; CHAPTER 6 Looking Outward: International Legal Norms and Foreigner Rights in Japan AMY GUROWITZ; PART IV COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES: IMMIGRANT RIGHTSANDINTEGRATION POLICIES IN ITALY, SPAIN, AND SOUTHKOREA CHAPTER 7 Does Hospitality Translate into Integration? Subnational Variations of Italian Responses to Immigration HARLAN KOFFCHAPTER 8 Nongovernmental versus Governmental Actors? Multilevel Governance and Immigrant Integration Policy in Spain BELEN AGRELA AND GUNTHER DIETZ; CHAPTER 9 NGOs, Transnational Migrants, and the Promotion of Rights in South Korea TIMOTHY C. LIM; PART V CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 10 The Limits of Local Citizenship and Activism in Japan and Other Recent Countries of Immigration TAKEYUKI TSUDA; Index; About the Authors Summary Since the late 1980s, Japan has been experiencing significant levels of immigration primarily from Asian and Latin American countries due to severe domestic labor shortages. Local Citizenship in Recent Countries of Immigration, examines the various dimensions of local citizenship in Japan, with comparative studies from South Korea, Italy, and Spain Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Immigrants -- Japan Immigrants -- Government policy -- Japan Citizenship -- Japan Social integration -- Japan Immigrants -- Cross-cultural studies Citizenship -- Cross-cultural studies Social integration -- Cross-cultural studies Emigration and immigration -- Cross-cultural studies SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. Citizenship Emigration and immigration Immigrants Immigrants -- Government policy Social integration Immigratie. Burgerschap. Sociale integratie. SUBJECT Japan -- Emigration and immigration Subject Japan Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies Form Electronic book Author Tsuda, Takeyuki ISBN 9780739157251 0739157256

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