Erin Aeran Chung

Immigration and Citizenship in Japan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates democratic inclusion in Japan, the only advanced industrial democracy with a fourth-generation immigrant problem.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780521514040
• ISBN-10: 0521514045
• Artikelnr.: 28112800

Autorenporträt

Erin Aeran Chung is the Charles D. Miller Assistant Professor of East Asian Politics and Co-Director of the Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) Program in the Department of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University. Previously, she was an Advanced Research Fellow at Harvard University's Program on US-Japan Relations and a Japan Foundation Fellow at Saitama University in Urawa, Japan. Her articles on citizenship, noncitizen political engagement, and comparative racial politics have been published in the Du Bois Review and Asian Perspective. In 2009, she was awarded an Abe Fellowship by the Social Science Research Council to conduct research in Japan and Korea for her second book project on immigrant incorporation in ethnic democracies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Is Japan an outlier? Cross-national patterns of immigrant incorporation and noncitizen political engagement
2. Constructing citizenship and non-citizenship in postwar Japan
3. Negotiating Korean identity in Japan
4. Citizenship as political strategy
5. Destination Japan: global shifts, local transformations
Conclusion.