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Population Aging and International Health-Caregiver Migration to Japan

Author : Gabriele Vogt

Publisher : Springer

Page : 111 pages

File Size : 27,24 MB

Release : 2017-09-18

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3319680129

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This book introduces Japan’s current policy initiatives directed at eldercare and international labor migration, and, wherever appropriate,it adds a comparative perspective from Germany. The book shows how eldercare is currently being organized and discusses integration policies for foreigners. It studies the policy-making process behind the system, and contextualizes the migration avenue within the strong roots of Japan’s eldercare in local communities and the non-preparedness of the nation to grant local citizenship to international newcomers. Through applying an approach of multi-level policy making, putting a strong focus on the local level and introducing new approaches, this book is of interest to policy makers and scholars in aging, migration, health care, and contemporary Japan.



An Invisible Policy Shift

Author : Gabriele Vogt

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 19,86 MB

Release : 2013

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Hitherto Japan's migration policy in a nutshell read “exclusively highly skilled migration” and “exclusively temporary migration.” Faced with the enormous speed of Japan's demographic change, however, the government has started to open up the national labor market to foreign workers. Under bilateral Economic Partnership Agreements that Japan tied with the Philippines in 2006 and with Indonesia in 2007, up to 1,000 health-care workers per nation per year are invited to relocate to Japan and work in their professions there. Labor market liberalization at this point precedes sector-specific and nation-specific. The pioneering sector is the health-care sector, a traditional center of feminized work, and with its low prestige and low income despite the long working hours, a highly marginalized profession in Japan and elsewhere. The health care sector is also the one business sector most directly confronted with Japan's population aging: The number of beneficiaries of long-term care insurance is expected to almost double by 2025 (from 4.5 to 8.4 million), while even today there is a severe shortage of qualified workers in the field. In this paper I will argue that Japan's demographic change triggered a migration policy shift, which despite its fundamental character did not become an issue neither in the nation's public nor its political discourse. The invisible nature of this policy shift will once again support the notion of health-care work as a marginalized profession - by many governmental officials - deemed to be best conducted by groups with limited access to political decision making, such as lower educated female workers or labor migrants. The policy process, which led to this invisible policy reform, is studied through a qualitative content analysis of government documents and expert interviews. Special focus shall be placed on the activities of national-level political actors, such as the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Ministry of Justice, the Japan Nursing Association, and the Japan Business Federation.



Reconfigurations of Authority, Power and Territoriality

Author : Rosow, Stephen J.

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 30,26 MB

Release : 2022-07-19

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1788977696

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Expansive and engaging, this book investigates the fluidity of sites of power and authority in global politics. Examining the key shifts and turns of politics in globally oriented spaces since the end of the Cold War, contributions from leading scholars explore the continually shifting parameters of global governance.



New Frontiers in Japanese Studies

Author : Akihiro Ogawa

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 40,47 MB

Release : 2020-04-02

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1000054209

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Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from ‘demystifying the Japanese’, to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future directions for research into the 2020s and beyond. Shifting the geographical emphasis of Japanese Studies away from the West to the Asia-Pacific region, this book identifies topic areas in which research focusing on Japan will play an important role in global debates in the coming years. This includes the evolution of area studies, coping with aging populations, the various patterns of migration and environmental breakdown. With chapters from an international team of contributors, including significant representation from the Asia-Pacific region, this book enacts Yoshio Sugimoto’s notion of ‘cosmopolitan methodology’ to discuss Japan in an interdisciplinary and transnational context and provides overviews of how Japanese Studies is evolving in other Asian countries such as China and Indonesia. New Frontiers in Japanese Studies is a thought-provoking volume and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese and Asian Studies. The Introduction and Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.



Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society

Author : John W. Traphagan

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 26,65 MB

Release : 2003-01-30

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780791456491

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A demographic and ethnographic exploration of how the aging Japanese society is affecting the family.



International Migrants in Japan

Author : Yoshitaka Ishikawa

Publisher : Government Printing Office

Page : 342 pages

File Size : 32,19 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Aliens

ISBN : 9781920901912

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Japan faces multiple challenges in an era of population decline. Problems such as aging and a decreasing working-age population are expected to increase in severity, so tackling these challenges and examining the contributions that immigrants can make to society are vital for Japan's future. What contributions do foreign residents make to Japan, especially in the labor market? How do national and local government policies effect the settlement and permanent residence of foreign nationals? Are issues - such as social mobility and quality of life of foreigners, the fertility of foreign women, and long-term trends in naturalization - important? What support does Japan offer to immigrants? As a 'new' country of immigration, the need to examine such questions is growing. This book takes a geographical perspective in examining the necessity of immigration and how foreign residents are helping to alleviate the problem of population decline in contemporary Japan. *** "Over the last thirty years Japan has become a country of immigration again. While the literature on migration to Japan is growing, reliable data on the issue is still scarce.Yoshitaka Ishikawa's edited volume is a major contribution to filling this void. Overall the papers compiled in the book are a good introduction to the complex and multifaceted realities of newcomer migrants and shed light on some understudied quantitative and qualitative aspects of migration to Japan. --Pacific Affairs, Vol. 89, No. 4, December 2016 (Series: Japanese Society) [Subject: Sociology, Japanese Studies, Asian Studies, Migration Studies, Labor Studies]



Japan's Demographic Revival

Author : Stephen Robert Nagy

Publisher : World Scientific

Page : 439 pages

File Size : 40,63 MB

Release : 2015-11-30

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9814678880

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Japan's Demographic Revival shifts discussions about employing immigration as the 'best' or 'sole' solution to assuaging Japan's demographic quagmire to a more systematic approach that identifies structural, organizational and cultural impediments that contribute to Japan's (and other countries') declining demographic situations. This edited volume also sheds light on the plethora of changes required to produce a demographically sustainable Japan.Part One includes chapters explaining the endogenous, ethnocultural and structural obstacles that link ethnocultural understandings of citizenship and nationality. Part Two consists of chapters that provide insight into the societal barriers that exist in Japan to address demographic issues. Part Three shifts its focus away from identifying and analyzing the structural, organizational and cultural factors towards chapters that are policy oriented, linking existing policies as contributing factors behind Japan's demographic challenge.



Modern Japan

Author : Louis G. Perez

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 427 pages

File Size : 25,86 MB

Release : 2024-05-30

Category : Social Science

ISBN :

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Organized by theme, this comprehensive encyclopedia examines all aspects of life in Japan, from geography and government to food and etiquette and much more. Japan, or the "Land of the Rising Sun," is home to more than 126 million people, nearly 10 million of whom live in Tokyo alone. How did this tiny island nation become such a powerhouse in the 21st century, and where will it go from here? Modern Japan examines history and contemporary life through thematic entries organized into chapters covering such topics as geography; history; government and politics; economy; religion and thought; social classes and ethnicity; gender, marriage, and sexuality; education; language; etiquette; literature and drama; art and architecture; music and dance; food; leisure and sports; and media and popular culture. Each chapter contains an overview of the topic and alphabetized entries on examples of each theme. A chronology covers from prehistoric times to the present, and special appendices offer profiles of a typical day in the life of representative members of Japanese society, key facts and figures about Japan, and a holiday chart. This volume is ideal for students researching Japan, as well as general readers interested in learning more about the country.



Linking Language, Trade and Migration

Author : Ruriko Otomo

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 42,42 MB

Release : 2023-06-21

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3031332342

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This book examines the effect of trade policy on language which represents an underrecognized area in the field of language policy and planning. It argues that trade policies like Japan’s Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) have important consequences for national language (education) policies and for discourses about language and nation. Since 2008, Japan has signed the EPAs with Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam to recruit migrant nurses and eldercare workers and manage their mobility by means of pre-employment language training and the Japanese-medium licensure examinations. Through the analysis of these language management devices, this book demonstrates that the EPAs are a manifestation and representation of contemporary language issues intertwined particularly with pressing issues of Japan’s social aging and demographic change. As the EPAs are intertwined with welfare, economy, social cohesion, and international political and economic relations and competitiveness, the book presents a far more complex picture of and a richer potential of language policy.



Posted Work in the European Union

Author : Jens Arnholtz

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 27,65 MB

Release : 2019-10-08

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0429632258

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Focusing on posting of workers, where workers employed in one country are send to work in another country, this edited volume is at the nexus of industrial relations and European Union studies. The central aim is to understand how the regulatory regime of worker "posting" is driving institutional changes to national industrial relations systems. In the introduction, the editors develop a framework for understanding the relationship of supra-national EU regulation, transnational actors and national industrial relations systems, which we then apply in the empirical chapters. This unique volume brings together scholars from diverse academic fields, all of whom are experts on the topic of "worker posting." The book examines different aspects of the posting debate, including the interactions of actors such as labour inspectorates, trade unions, European legal/political regulators, manpower firms, transnational subcontractors and posted workers. The main objective of this book is to explore the dynamics of institutional change, by showing how trans- and supra-national dynamics affect European industrial relations systems. This volume will represent the "state of the art" in research on worker posting. It will also contribute to debates on European integration, social dumping, labour market dualization and precariousness and will be of value to those with an interest employment relations, law and regulation.