Considering the situation in Japan and Germany, this book analyses the needs of host countries from a demographic standpoint, the desires of migrants in terms of education, training, and labour market participation, and policies and actions on the part of the state and civil society.
This edited book argues that a new perspective on immigration is needed. As many advanced economies are ageing, and their populations stagnate or decline, immigrants are increasingly required to fill in the gaps left behind by shrinking workforces. Against this backdrop, the outdated view that it is – and can only be – a privilege for immigrants to move temporarily from less to more developed economies needs a rethink. In particular, questions about how attractive a host destination can be for immigrants; not just in economic, but also in social, political, linguistic, and cultural terms should be raised.
Considering in detail the situation in Japan and Germany – Japan where there are hardly any convenience stores without foreign employees, Germany where retirement homes would no longer function without foreign nursing staff – the book analyses migration to these two countries in different aspects such as education, training, and labour market participation, and policies and actions on the part of the state and policymakers in rendering moving to and living in these countries worthwhile.
Bringing together leading scholars active in diverse aspects of migration in Japan and Germany, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars with an interest in immigration issues in these two countries specifically, and Europe and Asia more broadly.
1. Attractive immigrants or attractive for immigrants? Two ageing
societies and migration, Aeneas Zi Wang
2. Immigration-related language
policy in Germany, Christoph Schroeder
3. Multi-language service as
omotenashi and tatemae: Japanese local governments challenges and
limitations, Yoshiyuki Asahi
4. Does easy language promote integration?
Japanese and German perspectives, Goro Christoph Kimura
5. The gravitation of
authentic arts: Field-specific logics of visual art and music students
mobility, Takuma Fujii
6. The myth of Vietnamese IT and engineering
professionals being shin-nichi? Their short-term participation in the
Japanese labour market, Aimi Muranaka
7. Spurwechsel in German migration
policy, Christian Joppke
8. Promised (Deutsch)land? West Germanys
attractiveness as a migration destination for the Greeks in the 1960s, Maria
Adamopoulou
9. Changes and continuity in Japans deportation regime, Toake
Endoh
10. Japans Technical Intern Training Programme as transnational total
institution: Between exploitation and functionality, David Chiavacci
11.
Coming to terms with a changing reality, Florian Coulmas
Aeneas Zi Wang is an Associate Professor at the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Nanjing University, China.
Aimi Muranaka is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Florian Coulmas is a Senior Professor at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
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