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Japan in Immigration Research
Japan in Immigration Research
本授業は、New Japanese Studiesの一環で、スイス・チューリヒ大学教授のDavid Ciavacci（ダヴィッデ・キアヴァッチ）先生による集中講義として開講します。
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In this course, we will analyze Japan immigration to Japan since the later 1980s and its political and social consequences. The goal is not only to develop an overview of immigration and immigration policy, but also to be able to situate Japan in current theoretical debates in migration research. In each session, we will look at a theoretical puzzle of migration research and discuss it using the Japanese case study. In the first session, we will address the question of how the timing of Japan’s transformation from a non-immigration country to an immigration country in the late 1980s can be explained. The second session will focus on the relationship between narratives of national identity and their interaction in the frames of immigration in public and political discourses in Japan. Subsequently, in the third session, we will discuss how a gap between official and real immigration policy has also emerged in Japan. The fourth session will be devoted to the integration patterns of new immigrants, comparing the most important theoretical approaches in integration research and their explanatory power for Japan. The liberal paradox between a democratic political order, including the preservation of the international human rights regime on the one hand, and the prioritization of national sovereignty and maintaining the nation as an imagined community on the other, will be addressed in the fifth session. The sixth session will discuss and try to explain the contradiction between Japan as the worldwide forerunner of demographic aging and its restrictive immigration policy until a few years ago. In the seventh and final session, we will take a closer look at the development and changes in Japanese immigration policy, which is characterized by an increasing salience on the national political agenda and acceleration.
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In this course, we will analyze Japan immigration to Japan since the later 1980s and its political and social consequences. The goal is not only to develop an overview of immigration and immigration policy, but also to be able to situate Japan in current theoretical debates in migration research. In each session, we will look at a theoretical puzzle of migration research and discuss it using the Japanese case study. In the first session, we will address the question of how the timing of Japan’s transformation from a non-immigration country to an immigration country in the late 1980s can be explained. The second session will focus on the relationship between narratives of national identity and their interaction in the frames of immigration in public and political discourses in Japan. Subsequently, in the third session, we will discuss how a gap between official and real immigration policy has also emerged in Japan. The fourth session will be devoted to the integration patterns of new immigrants, comparing the most important theoretical approaches in integration research and their explanatory power for Japan. The liberal paradox between a democratic political order, including the preservation of the international human rights regime on the one hand, and the prioritization of national sovereignty and maintaining the nation as an imagined community on the other, will be addressed in the fifth session. The sixth session will discuss and try to explain the contradiction between Japan as the worldwide forerunner of demographic aging and its restrictive immigration policy until a few years ago. In the seventh and final session, we will take a closer look at the development and changes in Japanese immigration policy, which is characterized by an increasing salience on the national political agenda and acceleration.
時間割／共通科目コード
コース名
教員
学期
時限
21260043
GHS-XX6A01L3
Japan in Immigration Research
出口 剛司
集中
マイリストに追加
マイリストから削除
講義使用言語
英語
単位
1
実務経験のある教員による授業科目
NO
他学部履修
可
開講所属
人文社会系研究科
授業計画
1 Lewis Turning Point and Immigration: East Asian Context and Japan’s Transformation into a New Immigration Country
2 Narratives of National Identity and Immigration: Reinventions of Japan through Developmentalism, Ethnonationalism and Internationalization
3 Gap Thesis in Immigration Policy: Official Dual vs. Real Immigration Policy in Japan
4 Assimilation vs. Transnationalism: Diversity in Integration Patterns of New Immigrants’ Groups in Japan
5 Liberal Paradox of Immigration: International Human Rights vs. National Sovereignty in Democratic Japan
6 Productivist Welfare Regime and Demographic Change: Japan as Late Late-comer of Immigration
7 Compressed Immigration Policy: From Standstill to Dam Break to Right-wing Backlash in Japan
The following readings are required for each of the seven sessions:
1. Bartram, David. 2000. “Japan and Labor Migration: Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Negative Cases.” International Migration Review, 34 (1): 5-32.
2. Gurowitz, Amy. 1999. “Mobilizing International Norms: Domestic Actors, Immigrants, and the Japanese State”. World Politics, 51 (3): 413-445.
3. Wakisaka, Daisuke. 2024. “Unravelling Migration Policymaking in the Land of ‘No Immigrants’: Japanese Bureaucracy and the Discursive Gap”. International Migration Review, 58 (3): 1507-1531.
4. Takenoshita, Hirohisa, Yoshimi Chitose, Shigehiro Ikegami & Eunice Akemi Ishikawa. 2014. “Segmented Assimilation, Transnationalism, and Educational Attainment of Brazilian Migrant Children in Japan”. International Migration, 52 (2): 84-99.
5. Strausz, Michael. 2012. “International Pressure and Domestic Precedent: Japan’s Resettlement of Indochinese Refugees”. Asian Journal of Political Science, 20 (3): 244-266.
6. Chiavacci, David. 2025. “Political Economy of Labour Immigration in East Asia: Commonalities and Varieties”. Contemporary Japan, https://doi.org/*****
7. Lind, Jennifer. 2018. “Nationalist in a Liberal Order: Why Populism Missed Japan”. Asia-Pacific Review, 25 (1): 52-74.
授業の方法
Each session consists of a lecture giving an overview and discussions of central topics.
成績評価方法
Term paper in English or Japanese.
履修上の注意
Please prepare the required readings before class.
