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Immigration Policy and Foreign Workers in Japan

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Hiromi Mori

    1. Department of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Foreign Nationals in Japan

    • Hiromi Mori
    Pages 1-31

  3. Economic Growth, the Labour Market and Attraction of Foreign Workers

    • Hiromi Mori
    Pages 32-68

  4. Arrival of Newcomers and Future Prospects of Japan’s Labour Market

    • Hiromi Mori
    Pages 69-94

  5. Immigration Policy and Legal Introduction of Foreign Labour

    • Hiromi Mori
    Pages 95-133

  6. Geographical Distribution of Foreigners in Japan

    • Hiromi Mori
    Pages 134-150

  7. Characteristics of Foreign Employment

    • Hiromi Mori
    Pages 151-169

  8. Segmentation of the Labour Market among Foreign Workers

    • Hiromi Mori
    Pages 170-188

  9. Administrative Services for Foreign Residents

    • Hiromi Mori
    Pages 189-206

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 207-227
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In the second half of the 1980s Japan has emerged as one of the new major destination countries for migrants from Asia. The migrant labour pool was then joined by Japanese descendants from South American countries in the 1990s. Japan's policy of keeping the labour market closed to foreign unskilled workers has remained unchanged despite the 1990 immigration policy reform, which met the growing need for unskilled labour not by opening the 'front-door' to unskilled workers but by letting them in through intentionally-provided 'side-doors'. This book throws light on various aspects of migration flows to Japan and the present status of migrant workers as conditioned by Japan's immigration control system. The analysis aims to explore how the massive arrival of migrants affected Japan's immigration policy and how the policy segmented the foreign labour market in Japan.

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  • Department of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiromi Mori

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