Comparing Japan’s Immigration Policy under Koizumi and Abe: From Standstill to Dam Break
Tue 09 Apr
|Room 712, Building 19, Waseda University
This talk compares the immigration policy during the Koizumi and Abe administrations and discusses this shift from prolonged stalemate to comprehensive reform by analyzing the framing and institutional setting in immigration policy around 2005 and in the late 2010s.
Date and Venue
09 Apr 2024, 17:00 GMT+9
Room 712, Building 19, Waseda University, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディング
About the Event
Speaker:
David Chiavacci (University of Zurich)
David Chiavacci is Professor in Social Science of Japan at the University of Zurich. His specialization is political and economic sociology of contemporary Japan in a comparative perspective. The focus of his current research is on social movements, social inequality and Japan's new immigration and immigration policy. Recent publications include Re-emerging from Invisibility: Social Movements and Political Activism in Contemporary Japan (London: Routledge 2018), Japanese Political Economy Revisited: Abenomics and Institutional Change (London: Routledge 2019), Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2020), “Japan’s Melting Core: Social Frames and Political Crisis Narratives of Rising Inequalities” in Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change and Transformation of the Japanese State (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021, pp. 25-50), “Social Inequality in Japan” in Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics (Oxford: Oxford…