Projects
Books
Immigrant Japan:
Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society
About the Author
Gracia Liu-Farrer is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Japan.
Description
Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ethno-nationalist country. Why do people want to come to Japan? Where do immigrants with various resources and demographic profiles fit in the economic landscape? How do immigrants narrate belonging in an environment where they are "other" at a time when mobility is increasingly easy and belonging increasingly complex?
Gracia Liu-Farrer illuminates the lives of these immigrants by bringing in sociological, geographical, and psychological theories—guiding the reader through life trajectories of migrants of diverse backgrounds while also going so far as to suggest that Japan is already an immigrant country.
Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations
About the Editors
Gracia Liu-Farrer is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Japan.
Brenda S.A. Yeoh is Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore, and Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at NUS’s Asia Research Institute.
Description
Housing more than half of the global population, Asia is a region characterised by increasingly diverse forms of migration and mobility. Offering a wide-ranging overview of the field of Asian migrations, this new handbook therefore seeks to examine and evaluate the flows of movement within Asia, as well as into and out of the continent. Through in-depth analysis of both empirical and theoretical developments in the field, it includes key examples and trends such as British colonialism, Chinese diaspora, labour migration, the movement of women, and recent student migration.
Organised into thematic parts, the topics cover:
The historical context to migration in Asia
Modern Asian migration pathways and characteristics
The reconceptualising of migration through Asian experiences
Contemporary challenges and controversies in Asian migration practice and policy
Contributing to the retheorising of the subject area of international migration from non-western experience, the Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations will be useful to students and scholars of migration, Asian development and Asian Studies in general.
Gracia Liu-Farrer illuminates the lives of these immigrants by bringing in sociological, geographical, and psychological theories—guiding the reader through life trajectories of migrants of diverse backgrounds while also going so far as to suggest that Japan is already an immigrant country.
Surviving the Sanctuary City
Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York
About the Author
Tina Shrestha is assistant professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University.
Description
Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating the challenging bureaucratic process of asylum legalization. Surviving the Sanctuary City follows them through the institutional spaces of asylum offices, law firms, and human rights agencies to document the labor of seeking asylum. As an interpreter and a volunteer at a grassroots community center, anthropologist Tina Shrestha has witnessed how migrants must perform a particular kind of suffering that is legible to immigration judges and asylum officers. She demonstrates the lived contradictions asylum seekers face while producing their "suffering testimonials" and traces their attempts to overcome these contradictions through the Nepali notions of kaagaz banaune (making paper) and dukkha (suffering).
Surviving the Sanctuary City asks what everyday survival among migrants and asylum seekers can tell us about the cultural logic of suffering within the confines of US borders. Through rich ethnographic detail and careful nuanced narratives, it puts the lives and perspectives of the Nepali migrant community at the center of the story. In so doing, Shrestha offers a fundamental rethinking of asylum seeking as a form of precarious labor and immigration enforcement in a rapidly changing US society.
Tangled Mobilities:
Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration
About the Editors
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot is tenured research associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) and senior lecturer (maîtresse d’enseignement) at the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume International Marriages and Marital Citizenship: Southeast Asian Women on the Move (Routledge, 2017).
Gracia Liu-Farrer is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, and Director of Institute of Asian Migrations, Waseda University, Japan. She is the co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Asian Migration (2018, with Brenda Yeoh) and the author of Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethnonationalist Society (Cornell University Press, 2020).
Description
Housing more than half of the global population, Asia is a region characterised by increasingly diverse forms of migration and mobility. Offering a wide-ranging overview of the field of Asian migrations, this new handbook therefore seeks to examine and evaluate the flows of movement within Asia, as well as into and out of the continent. Through in-depth analysis of both empirical and theoretical developments in the field, it includes key examples and trends such as British colonialism, Chinese diaspora, labour migration, the movement of women, and recent student migration.
Organised into thematic parts, the topics cover:
The historical context to migration in Asia
Modern Asian migration pathways and characteristics
The reconceptualising of migration through Asian experiences
Contemporary challenges and controversies in Asian migration practice and policy
Contributing to the retheorising of the subject area of international migration from non-western experience, the Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations will be useful to students and scholars of migration, Asian development and Asian Studies in general.
Gracia Liu-Farrer illuminates the lives of these immigrants by bringing in sociological, geographical, and psychological theories—guiding the reader through life trajectories of migrants of diverse backgrounds while also going so far as to suggest that Japan is already an immigrant country.
The EU Migrant Generation in Asia:
Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities
About the Author
Helena Hof is Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich, and Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
Description
Drawing on an extensive study with young individuals who migrated to Singapore and Tokyo in the 2010s, this book sheds light on the friendships, emotions, hopes and fears involved in establishing life as Europeans in Asia.
It demonstrates how migration to Asian business centres has become a way of distinction and an alternative route of middle-class reproduction for young Europeans during that period. The perceived insecurities of life in the crisis-ridden EU result in these migrants’ onward migration or prolonged stays in Asia.
Capturing the changing roles of Singapore and Japan as migration destinations, this pioneering work makes the case for EU citizens’ aspired lifestyles and professional employment that is no longer only attainable in Europe or the West.
入管の解体と移民庁の創設
著者について
駒井 洋 監修
筑波大学名誉教授。移民政策学会元会長。東京大学大学院社会研究科博士課程修了。博士（社会学）。
主な著書『国際社会学研究』（日本評論社、1989年）、『移民社会学研究――実態分析と政策提言1987－2016』（明石書店、2016年）。監修書に「移民・ディアスポラ研究1～9」（明石書店、2011～2020年）など。
加藤 丈太郎 (かとう じょうたろう) 編著
1981年、東京都生まれ。早稲田大学国際学術院アジア太平洋研究センター助教。2022年4月より武庫川女子大学文学部英語文化学科専任講師。博士(学術)。
専門は移民研究、国際労働移動、国際社会学、多文化共生論。2017年3月までNGO において非正規移民に在留資格を求める活動に従事。2017年4月に研究の道に転じ、現在は主にベトナムから日本への国際労働移動による日本・ベトナム社会への影響を研究している。また、大学生と共に多文化共生のあり方を考えている。
主な著作に、『多文化共生 人が変わる、社会を変える』(共著、2018年、凡人社)、『多文化共創への33 の提言―気づき愛、Global Awareness―』(共編著、2021年、都政新報社)、『ロヒンギャ問題とは何か―難民になれない難民―』(日下部尚徳・石川和雅編著、第6章分担執筆、2019年、明石書店)がある。
内容紹介
収容者の相次ぐ死亡事件や長期収容など、外国人を治安の対象として管理することを目的に作られた入管のひずみが各地で起きている。事実上の移民が多数来日しているなかで、限界を迎えている入管体制をどう変えていくか。歴史にさかのぼって転換の道筋を考える。
収容者の相次ぐ死亡事件や長期収容など、外国人を治安の対象として管理することを目的に作られた入管のひずみが各地で起きている。事実上の移民が多数来日しているなかで、限界を迎えている入管体制をどう変えていくか。歴史にさかのぼって転換の道筋を考える。
日本の「非正規移民」——「不法性」はいかにつくられ、維持されるか
著者について
加藤 丈太郎(かとう じょうたろう)
1981年、東京都生まれ。早稲田大学国際学術院アジア太平洋研究センター助教。2022年4月より武庫川女子大学文学部英語文化学科専任講師。博士(学術)。
専門は移民研究、国際労働移動、国際社会学、多文化共生論。2017年3月までNGO において非正規移民に在留資格を求める活動に従事。2017年4月に研究の道に転じ、現在は主にベトナムから日本への国際労働移動による日本・ベトナム社会への影響を研究している。また、大学生と共に多文化共生のあり方を考えている。
主な著作に、『多文化共生 人が変わる、社会を変える』(共著、2018年、凡人社)、『多文化共創への33 の提言―気づき愛、Global Awareness―』(共編著、2021年、都政新報社)、『ロヒンギャ問題とは何か―難民になれない難民―』(日下部尚徳・石川和雅編著、第6章分担執筆、2019年、明石書店)がある。
内容紹介
貧困、格差、ヘイトスピーチ、摘発の恐怖……日本に暮らす非正規移民は、「不法」な存在として過酷な現実を強いられている。彼／彼女らとともに新たな共生社会を育むために何が必要か、フィールドワークと理論を駆使した研究を政策提言につなげる渾身の一冊。