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The Myth Of Homogeneity And The 'Others': Foreign Labour Migration And Globalization In The Case Of Japan, Hironori Onuki
The Myth Of Homogeneity And The 'Others': Foreign Labour Migration And Globalization In The Case Of Japan, Hironori Onuki
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This essay will examine the multi-dimensional dynamics of global labor migrations participating in and facilitated by globalization, by analyzing Japan's contemporary experience of rapidly intensified foreign labor immigration. Japan has not considered itself as a country of immigration until recently. Since Japan's prewar self-modernization period, conservative political discourse has conceptualized the modern nation-state as a racially homogeneous entity. This discourse established the cultural and political foundation for Japanese identity, and Japan's relationship with the outside world. Consequently, the incorporation of culturally and ethnically different Others has been deemed a threat to the harmony of Japan's homogeneous society. Yet, beginning in …
Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture And Japanese Transnationalism, Matthew Allen
Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture And Japanese Transnationalism, Matthew Allen
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Book review of: Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. By Iwabuchi Koichi. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. 288 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).