Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women's religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transformed their cultures - old and new - in modern Canada. Each essay explores the ways in which the religiosities of women serve as locations for both the assertion and the refashioning of individual and communal identity in transcultural contexts. Three shared assumptions guide these essays: religion plays a dynamic role in the shaping and reshaping of social cultures; women are active participants in their transmission and their transformation; and a focus on women's activities within their religious traditions - often informal and unofficial - provides new perspectives on the intersection of religion, gender, and transnationalism. Since the first European migrations, Canada has been shaped by immigrant communities as they negotiated the tension between preserving their religious and cultural traditions and embracing the new opportunities in their adopted homeland. Viewing those interactions through the lens of women's religiosity, the essays in this collection model an innovative approach and provide new perspectives for students and researchers of Canadian Studies, Religious Studies, and Women's Studies.Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities, edited by Becky R. Lee and Terry Tak-ling WooSection I: Christianity and Judaism in Newfoundland, Ontario, and Alberta1. ""He's My Best Friend"": Relationality, Materiality, and the Manipulation of Motherhood in Devotion to St Gerard Majella in Newfoundland Marion Bowman2. ""She Couldn't Come to the Table 'til She Was Churched"": Anglican Women, Childbirth, and Embodied Christian Practice in Conception Bay, Newfoundland Bonnie Morgan3. On the Margins of Church and Society: Roman Catholic Feminisms in English-Speaking Canada Becky R. Lee4. Unveiling Leah: Examining Women's Voices in Two Canadian Jewish Worship Services Aviva GoldbergSection II: New Religions in Canada5. Charity Chicks: A Discourse-Analysis of Religious Self-Identification by Rural Canadian Mormon Women Katherine Power6. ""The Whole World Opened Up"": Women in Canadian Theosophy Gillian McCann7. Belief, Identity, and Social Action in the Lives of Bahá'í Women Lynn EchevarriaSection III: South Asian Religions in Southwest Ontario8. Being Hindu in Canada: Experiences of Women Anne Pearson and Preeti Nayak9. Women in Hinduism: Ritual Leadership in the Adhi Parasakthi Temple Society of Canada Nanette Spina

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Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the yellow brick road, ruby slippers and Oz. But this book begins with Dorothy and her legacy as an archetypal touchstone in cinema for the child journeying far from home. In There's No Place Like Home, distinguished film scholar Stephanie Hemelryk Donald offers a fresh interpretation of the migrant child as a recurring figure in world cinema. Displaced or placeless children, and the idea of childhood itself, are vehicles to examine migration and cosmopolitanism in films such as Le Ballon Rouge, Little Moth and Le Havre. Surveying fictional and documentary film from the post-war years until today, the author shows how the child is a guide to themes of place, self and being in world cinema.Trade ReviewA deeply felt, compassionate, necessary book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * W.W. Dixon, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter One: The Dorothy Complex Chapter Two: The Red Balloon and Squirt’s Journey: story-telling with child migrants Chapter Three: Once My Mother, Welcome and Le Havre: breath and the child cosmopolitan Chapter Four: Little Moth and The Road: precarity, immobility and inertia Chapter Five: Landscape in the Mist Chapter Six: The Leaving of Liverpool: Empire and religion, poetry and the archive Chapter Seven: Diamonds of the Night Afterword: Where have all the children gone? Endnotes

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Book SynopsisEffective treatment for HIV and AIDS came in 1996. For sufferers in the developed world, this marked a true watershed moment: the end of the death sentence. But for many in the developing world, including in Southeast Asia, these new treatments remained far out of reach. In his early thirties, following the loss of his partner to an AIDS-related illness, Chris Beyrer wrote the first edition of War in the Blood. Three decades later, having served as president of the International AIDS Society, he believes we have arrived at an extraordinary milestone. For the first time, a patient has been demonstrably cured of HIV, new vaccine trials in Thailand have shown great promise, and the PrEP programme genuinely works. So why are over half of the estimated 38.8 million people living with HIV still not on treatment? War in the Blood is a labour of love, both a celebratory account of Southeast Asia and the story of our failure to protect those most vulnerable the world over – gay men, adolescent girls, sex workers, drug users, and transgender women. Beyrer offers an impassioned plea for our communities and governments – and our own hearts and minds – to stop denying the realities of sex, sexuality, and gender, and to take affirmative action.Trade ReviewPart travelogue, part ethnography, with an eye for the details of daily life, Beyrer takes the reader on a journey through the cultural and political contours of contemporary Southeast Asia... skilfully weaves diverse voices into a broad tapestry which includes the political economy of HIV... This informal, engaging book will appeal to a wide audience. * Praise for the First Edition, China Information *Excellent... hard-hitting and clear-sighted... A first-rate book, both scientifically based and written in terms the lay reader can understand. * Praise for the First Edition, South China Morning Post *Beyrer has an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of the global HIV epidemic that this book so richly describes. More than any other Western researcher, he understands the cultural and political factors that impact local epidemics. * Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Dean of the University of Malaya Faculty of Medicine *A Powerful testimony to the capacity to unite care with practical action... there is no other equally comprehensive account to match it of the travels of HIV infection through the peoples and landscapes of Asia. * Praise for the First Edition, Jeremy Seabrook *As timely and relevant today as it was when it was first published, telling a deeply personal account of the AIDS epidemic and the people still being left behind. * Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS *Offers honest insights on sex between men, drug use, sex work, and transgender people in Southeast Asia. Chris Beyrer offers pragmatic solutions to inspire a new generation of leaders. * Midnight Poonkasetwattana, Asia-Pacific Community of MSM Organizations (APCOM) *Beyrer writes with the rigour of an outstanding scientist, and the compassion and energy of a tireless advocate. * Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine *Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Introduction Part I: Countries 1. Coming into the Region 2. Thailand: The Descending Buddha 3. Burma: Going to Myanmar, Being in Burma 4. Cambodia: AIDs and the Torn Society 5. Laos: Travels in the Cold War 6. Malaysia: Ethnicity, Activism and AIDS 7. Vietnam: Harm Reduction in the Balance 8. Yunnan: China's Southeast Asia Part II: People, Risks 9. Women: Wives, Mothers, Daughters 10. The Flesh Trade: Prostitution and Trafficking in ASEAN 11. Military Studies 12. Chasing the Dragon: Heroin and AIDS 13. Tribes: The Virus that Kills the Gods 14. The Displaced: Migrants, Refugees, IDPs and HIV 15. Other Genders: Katoeys, Waria, Hinjras, Toms and Dees 16. Chaai Chuay Chaai: Men Helping Men 17. Prisons and Prisoners 18. Activists Part III: Relativity and Culture 19. Drugs Wars and the War on Drugs 20. Brethren: HIV, Gay Men, and Prevention Equity 21. Medical Ethics, Human Rights, Asian Values 22. The Proper Study of Mankind 23. Conclusion: Condoms or Landmines

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Book SynopsisThis special issue is the second of a two-part edited collection on the privatisation of migration. The central thrust of the special issue is a critical analysis of modern day manifestations of private participation in immigration control such as through companies which run detention and deportation programmes and individual landlords, medical professionals and employers who become part of immigration enforcement. In the chapters the authors examine the role of private stakeholders and the political economy in migration control.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Devyani Prabhat SECTION 1: PRIVATE STAKEHOLDERS IN MIGRATION CONTROL Chapter 1. How are Migrants, Especially Male Asylum Seekers, Deterred from Safe Journeys and Lawful Entry into the UK through Carrier Sanctions?; Aleksandra Wegera Chapter 2. By What Means are Medical Professionals Able to Reject Hostile Environment Policy Within the NHS?; Isabella Bertolini Chapter 3. Twenty-two years of Employer Sanctions: To What Extent has Deputising Employers Woven Ethnocentrism into the United Kingdom’s Approach to Controlling Irregular Migration?; Emily Rigler Gillingham Chapter 4. In the Context of the Agricultural Industry, To What Extent does the UK Government’s ‘Hostile Environment’ Agenda Outweigh the Impact of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 on Irregular Workers?; Harriet Parfitt SECTION 2 : THE POLITICAL ECONOMY AND COMMODIFICATION OF MIGRATION Chapter 5. To What Extent did the Private Hybridity of The East India Company Result in Lack of Accountability?; Akosua-Rose Oppon Chapter 6. Migration as a Commodity: Do You Possess the ‘Golden Ticket...?’ An Assessment of the Tier 1 (Investor) Visa’s Social and Economic Effect on the UK’s Migration System; Isobel Kamber

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Book Synopsis'A thoughtful, funny memoir on the realities of immigration' Guardian'Ebullient and sharply humorous about the conflicts and confusions of growing up and adapting to a country (and family) in a constant state of political flux and, often, social fantasy' The TimesMr Hai arrived in London in 1964. But, while becoming British via a passport had been relatively easy, becoming English was something to be studied - and then passed on, first to his wife, newly arrived from Pakistan, and then to his children. No more speaking Urdu, no more long plaits, no shalwar kameezes, and - even though they were Muslim - no more religion. Mr Hai put his family firmly on the road to assimilation, and his first-born daughter Yasmin was his star pupil. However, being second-generation British Asian was not quite so simple... especially as their Muslim community was about to go through some very profound changes and challenges.Brilliantly told, with intelligence and humour and passion, this is a fascinating story about immigration and identity, about religion and roots, and about a daughter's understanding of her father.Trade Review[Yasmin Hai] is ebullient and sharply humorous about the conflicts and confusions of growing up and adapting to a country (and a family) in a constant state of political flux and, often, social fantasy. Her personality is as engaging as her insights are illuminating * The Times *A very personal story filled with family tales, social history and politics, and making an important contribution to the debate about life in modern multicultural Britain * Waterstones Books Quarterly *Had Mr Hai succeeded in turning his daughter into an Englishwoman? I'm not sure it really matters anymore, but his kindly influence obviously enabled his little Yasmin to write this unbelievably funny, passionate autobiography * Spectator *[Yasmin Hai] is ebullient and sharply humorous about the conflicts and confusions of growing up and adapting to a country (and a family) in a constant state of political flux and, often, social fantasy. Her personality is as engaging as her insights are illuminating. * The Times *Had Mr Hai succeeded in turning his daughter into an Englishwoman? I'm not sure it really matters any more, but his kindly influence obviously enabled his little Yasmin to write this unbelievably funny, passionate autobiography. * Spectator *A thoughtful, funny memoir on the realities of immigration * Guardian (Guide - for the Radio 4 Book of the Week) *A very personal story filled with family tales, social history and politics, and making an important contribution to the debate about life in modern multicultural Britain. * Waterstones Books Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisThe Greek and Jewish diasporas are the most significant diasporas of Western civilisation. "Homelands and Diasporas" is the first book to explore the similarities and differences between these two experiences. In the process it sheds fascinating light on their fundamental importance for both Greek and Jewish societies. The authors examine Greek and Jewish diasporas throughout history, from classical and Biblical times to the present, and all over the world - in Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, Russia, the Near and Middle East, Spain and the US. They analyse the very nature of diaspora, examining both the Greek concept of noble expansion and the Jewish idea of enforced exile, and analyse community structures as well as social and religious networks, combining Scriptural analysis with cultural and political history. Diaspora is a difficult and emotive concept but "Homelands and Diasporas" offers a balanced and perceptive guide to the connected histories of these two peoples away from their homelands.Table of ContentsList of Contributors – 11-15 Remarks on the Method of Transliteration – 17-18 Acknowledgements – 19-20 Preface – 21-32 Introduction: People of the Book, People of the Sea: Mirror Images of the Soul (Minna Rozen) – 35-81 Part 1: The Genesis of Diasporas Chapter One: Exile – The Biblical Perspectives (Bustenay Oded) – 85-92 Chapter Two: Between Greek Colony and Mother-City: Some Reflections (Panagiotis N. Doukellis) – 93-106 Part II: Pre-Modern Diaspora: Patterns of Behavior Chapter One: The Jewish Politeuma in Alexandria: A Pattern of Jewish Communal Life in the Greco-Roman Diaspora (Aryeh Kasher) – 109-125 Chapter Two: Collective Expatriations of Greeks in the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries (Anastassia Papadia-Lala) – 127-133 Part III: The Diaspora In Its Various Guises A. The Greek Diaspora: Practical Solutions Chapter One: Reconstituting Community: Cultural Differentiation and Identity Politics in Christian Orthodox Communities during the Late Ottoman Era (Haris Exertzoglou) – 137-154 Chapter Two: The ‘Old’ Diaspora, the ‘New’ Diaspora, and the Greek Diaspora in the Eighteenth through Nineteenth Centuries Vienna (Vasiliki Seirinidou) – 155-159 Chapter Three: Greek Diaspora in Southern Russia in the Eighteenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Vassilis Kardasis) – 161-167 Chapter Four: Central and Peripheral Communities in the Greek Diaspora: Interlocal and Local Economic, Political, and Cultural Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Olga Katsiardi-Hering) – 169-180 B. The Jewish Diaspora: Spiritual Solutions Chapter Five: A Land Adored Yet Feared: The Land of Israel in Jewish Tradition (Aviezer Ravitsky) – 183-210 Chapter Six: Spain, Greece or Jerusalem? The Yearning for the Motherland in the Poetry of Greek Jews (Shmuel Refael) – 211-223 Part IV: The Modern World and Its Demise Chapter One: Breaks ad Continuities in German-Jewish Identity (Yfaat Weiss) – 227-234 Chapter Two: The Metamorphosis of Pre-Dubnovian Autonomism into Diaspora Jewish Nationalism (Marcos Silber) – 235-255 Chapter Three: Does Money Talk? The Struggle between American Zionists and the Yishuv in the Early 1940s (Zohar Segev) – 257-278 Chapter Four: Greek Orthodox Church Networks in the Near East and the Emergence of Arab Nationalism (1899-1947) (Sotirios Roussos) – 279-292 Chapter Five: Center and Diaspora in the Struggle for Human Rights: The State of Israel and the Jewish ‘Desaparecidos’ in Argentina during the Military Regime (1976-1983) (Efraim Zadoff) – 293-303 Chapter Six: Jewish Diaspora and the Privatization of Israeli Society (Daniel Gutwein) – 305-322 Conclusion: Diaspora, Identity, and Nation-Building (Paschalis M. Kitromilides) – 323-331 Notes – 333-417 Index – 419-444

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Book SynopsisThe New Maids is a pioneering book, grounded on rich, empirical evidence, which examines the relationship between globalization, transnationalism, gender and the care economy. Expertly addressing the thorny questions that surround the increasing number of migrant domestic workers and cleaners, child-carers and caregivers who maintain modern Western households, the author argues that domestic work plays the defining role in global ethnic and gender hierarchies. Using a central ethnographic study of immigrant domestic workers and their German employees as its starting point, The New Maids uses the voices of such women themselves to provide unique conceptual and evidential support for this vital new approach argument. This exciting book will not only enhance the reader's understanding of the new care-economy, it also sets standards for feminist global methodology.Trade ReviewIn this nuanced, important, big-picture book, Lutz tells us that "old maids" --serving tea, say, in a bourgeois Berlin in 1900 home -- might be an 18 year old from a nearby rural town. In the frightening l930's, she might have been one of 100,000 women the Nazis forcibly moved from the nations it conquered placed in German homes as maids. By contrast, the "new maid" is a willing volunteer of global capitalism. Compared to maids of the past, she is often older, a mother, and a migrant from the educated middle classes of the flagging economies of the Ukraine, Poland, Belorussia. As their harrowing stories reveal, however, the new maid often balances long-distance mothering with fears of being deported as an "illegal," uncertain living circumstances, and the unpredictable hearts of marginal men. A must read. * Arlie Hochschild, author of 'The Second Shift', 'The Time Bind', and co-editor of 'Global Woman' *Through compelling ethnographic portraits and astute theory, 'The New Maids' takes us beyond narratives of exploitation or empowerment to capture mutual dependences, transnational motherhood, and intimate labor under shifting gender, migration, and welfare regimes. It moves the scholarship on paid domestic work under globalization to new heights! * Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and Chair, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, co-editor of Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care *This is an absorbing analysis of migrant domestic and care work in Germany. Based on intensive interviews with both household employers and employees, Lutz sensitively unfolds the complex, interlocking but deeply asymmetrical employment relationship. This is a major case study of intersectionality in action. The poignant and moving biographies of transnational mother-workers are interspersed with constant analytical insights which make this book essential reading for anyone researching or working in the field of migration and care. * Fiona Williams, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Leeds *With insight and conviction, Helma Lutz takes us inside the world of the foreign domestic work. She shares poignant narratives that reveal the paradoxical lives of today's maids as one of simultaneous professionalism and personalism at work, distance and proximity in the family, and the unrecognized dependency on their labor by the state. This is an important book that should be read by policy makers and scholars alike. * Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California, author of 'Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo' *The insights from Helma Lutz's rich ethnographic research bring a new dimension to the growing literature on women, migration and care work. In this brilliant synthesis, Lutz shows how the household becomes a 'global market for women's labour,' one in which active players 'do ethnicity' as they negotiate care and domestic work. While the focus is on Europe, The New Maids adds to our understanding of transnational women across the globe. As she did with Migration and Domestic Work, Lutz once again raises scholarship on women, migration and work to a new level. * Sonya Michel, Director of United States Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC USA *Table of Contents1: The New Division of Domestic Labour 2: The Household as a Global Market for Women's Labour 3: Domestic Work and Lifestyles: Methods and First Results 4: Domestic Work - A Perfectly Normal Job? 5: Exploitation or Alliance of Trust? Relationship Work in the Household 6: Transnational Motherhood 7: Being Illegal 8: Migrant Women in the Globalization Trap?

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Book SynopsisProvocative and intellectually challenging, Gender and Migration critically analyses how gender has been taken up in studies of migration and its theories, practices and effects. Each essay uses feminist frameworks to highlight how more traditional tropes of gender eschew the complexities of gender and migration. In tackling this problem, this collection offers students and researchers of migration a more nuanced understanding of the topic.Trade Review'This original collection brings a feminist, intersectional and interdisciplinary lens to question the seemingly innocuous ‘and’ in discussions of gender and migration. Highly recommended.' Rosalind Gill, King’s College 'Reading this book, which is highly recommended, you are swept into postcolonial countries as well as into the old heart of Europe and you will necessarily loose the sense of innocence and neutrality in relation to your own thinking and conceptualizing.' Frigga Haug, The Berlin Institute of Critical Theory 'This book makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on the gendered character of migrations as well as that of states and societies' responses to them.' Nira Yuval-Davis 'This is a theoretically rich exploration of gender and migration. Each chapter covers crucial issues, but the collection as a whole makes key interventions in understandings of policy and humanitarian issues. It is provocative and imaginative in its careful, scholarly and accessible treatment of issues frequently taken for granted by governments, international agencies and human rights activists. It deserves to become essential reading, not only in a variety of academic disciplines, but by those working in, and legislating about, migration as well as the wider public.' Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education 'This is a must-read for anyone in the ever-widening fields of international relations and migration studies.' M. Brinton Lykes, Boston College 'This book is a critical resource for 21st century feminist scholars, practitioners, activists, students and policymakers.' Jude Clark, University of KwaZulu-NatalTable of Contents Gender and migration: feminist interventions Part I: Visibility and Vulnerability 2. Gender, migration and anti-racist politics in the continued project of the nation - Alexandra Zavos 3. The Problem of Trafficking - Chandré Gould 4. Sex, choice and exploitation: reflections on anti-trafficking discourse - Ingrid Palmary Part II: Asylum 5. Barriers to Protection: Gender-Related Persecution and Asylum in South Africa - Julie Middleton 6. Safe to Return? A Case Study of Domestic Violence, Pakistani Women, and the UK Asylum System - Sajida Ismail 7. Women Seeking Asylum in the UK: Contesting Conventions - Khatidja Chantler 8. Explicating the tactics of banal exclusion: a British example - Erica Burman Part III: Depoliticizing migration 9. Now you see me now you don't: methodologies and methods of the interstices - Caroline Wanjiku Kihato 10. For Love or Survival: Migrant Women's Narratives of Survival and Intimate Partner Violence in Johannesburg - Monica Kiwanuka 11. Re-housing trouble: Post-disaster reconstruction and exclusionary strategies in Venezuela - Isabel Rodríguez Mora 12. An arm hanging in mid-air: a discussion on immigrant men and impossible relationships in Greece - Stavros Psaroudakis

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Book SynopsisThe tragic tale of the sinking of the famine ship, the St. John in Massachusetts Bay in 1849. The Great Irish Famine drove huge numbers of Irish men and women to leave the island and pursue their survival in foreign lands. In 1847, some 200,000 people sailed for Boston alone. Of this massive group, 2,000 never made it to their destination, killed by disease and hunger during the voyages, their remains consigned to a watery grave. The sinking of the brig St. John off the coast of Massachusetts in October 1849, was only one of many tragic events to occur during this mass exodus. The ship had sailed from Galway, loaded with passengers so desperate to escape the effects of famine that some had walked from as far afield as Clare to reach the ship. The passengers on the St. John made it to within sight of the New World before their ship went down and they were abandoned by their captain, who denied that there had been any survivors when he and some of his crew made it ashore. For those who died in the seas off Massachusetts, there was nothing to mark their last resting place; no name, no memory of them ever having existed, just another statistic in a terrible tragedy.

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Book SynopsisA compilation of Adrian Favell's innovative and agenda-setting essays which, since the late 1990s, have charted the emergence of new migration patterns and politics in Europe.

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Book SynopsisIn 1968, Conservative MP Enoch Powell gave a shocking speech in Birmingham opposing immigration throughout the UK. The 'Rivers of Blood' speech was described as 'evil'. It resulted in Powell's dismissal from the Shadow Cabinet and made thousands of immigrants feel unsafe in the country they had adopted as their own. Powell himself became a symbol of both loathing and fervent admiration. Sarinder Joshua Duroch, a British man whose grandparents came to this country from India, provides a new perspective on this divisive figure. Despite disagreeing with Powell's methods, and despite the trouble that Powell caused for his family, Duroch finds that it's not impossible to establish some common ground. Enoch, I Am a British Indian is a bold and unusual examination of immigration, the failure of multiculturalism and the legacy of an extraordinary and controversial MP, whose impact is perhaps felt more strongly than ever today.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to My Early Socialisation Process. Chapter 2: A Visit to India - Introduction to Social Apartheid. Chapter 3: Personal Identity and Nationality. Chapter 4: Hindrances to Social Interaction. Chapter 5: Multiculturalism, Identity, Immigration and the EU. Chapter 6: The Immigration Debate. Chapter 7: Patriotism. Chapter 8: Margaret Thatcher's Swamp. Chapter 9: Enoch's Legacy and My Place in British Society.

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Book SynopsisAs the plight of refugees around the world looms large as one of the central problems facing the international political community at the beginning of the 21st century, the situations facing displaced persons in Africa are both acute manifestations of this global trend, and unique in their particularities.As the powerful nations of the world are mobilised to tackle domestic conflicts and their ensuing refugee problems in the Balkans, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and elsewhere, African societies have typically been abandoned by the international community to resolving their own conflicts through their own means. The authors of this volume examine both causes and effects of displacement in terms of both local and global politics, environmental risks, socio-economic costs, and policy and identity issues. Combined, these papers provide a powerful if not comprehensive overview of the variety and complexity of circumstances concerning displaced persons.

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Book SynopsisWith a focus on Brazilian migrant workers in Japan, this study produces a comprehensive picture of the forces driving transnational labour migration, both in the countries of origin of foreign workers and within Japan. How are Japan's labour institutions changing under globalisation? What are the implications of these changes for the lives of people in Japan?Asking these and other questions, the book demonstrates how Japan's labour shortage has established a 'trans-national employment system' and shows that globalisation is 'the very cause of the breaking up of Japan as a middle class society'. It also discusses the impact of concepts of nationality and family registration on the lives of foreign-born workers of Japanese descent within Japan.

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Book SynopsisJapan's national identity associates the 'Japanese people' with the Japanese land, making the farmer the backbone of the nation. Others in Japanese Agriculture challenges this mythology, revealing the changing faces of Japanese farmers during the colonial and post-war eras. First, it traces the tangled trail of Koreans brought into farming villages as a result of war mobilization and capitalist development. Second, it discusses the plight of those who evacuated from cities as they attempted to eke out a living on marginal land. Third, it points out that settlers repatriated from the colonies were met with hostility from villagers and indifference from authorities. Finally, it explores how those who were encouraged to emigrate for 'the good of the nation' in post-war Japan, found themselves victims of agrarian reforms, which severed their ties. In sum, despite being lauded as the 'backbone of the nation' Japanese farmers have been repeatedly marginalized and othered.Table of Contents Figures Tables Photos Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The ethnic problem in Japan's farming villages 2 Evacuation, return to farming and postwar settlement 3 Farmers' lived experience of borders from Manchuria to postwar settlement 4 Japanese expatriate 'others': Postwar land reform and migration 5 Putting down roots: Postwar administration of overseas agricultural emigration and farmers Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

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