Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan.

Melbourne.: Trans Pacific Press.. 2001.. Maps, xiv + 230pp, notes, index, paperback. "Hiroshi Komai, a foremost scholar in the studies of foreign residents in Japan, draws on the latest and most comprehensive data available to provide a systematic overview of the current situation of foreign migrants in Japan and to recommend necessary policy changes. Special attention is given to workers under the economic recession, along with the condition of such non-workers as pseudo-exiles, self actualization seekers and marriage/family oriented people. The study presents an analysis of deprivation and discrimination against migrants and examines human rights violations and the important role of NGOs and local governments in countering these tendencies.

Professor Komai also demonstrates the process of migrant settlement and the formation of ethnic communities and utilizes survey data to show the rigidity of institutions and value systems in Japan. Finally, he examines the potential of migrants to transform existing Japanese structures and proposes that migrants the granted degrees of citizenship corresponding to the extent to which they have settled." Publisher's description. .