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Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan
Milos Debnar
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Description for Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan
Hardback. Num Pages: 246 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPJ; JFC; JFFN; JFSL; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
This book analyzes the increase in contemporary European migration to Japan, its causes and the lives of Europeans in Japan. Desconstructing the picture of highly skilled, privileged, cosmopolitan elites that has been frequently associated with white or Western migrants, it focuses on the case of Europeans rather than Westerners migrating to a highly developed, non-Western country as Japan, this book offers new insights on increasing diversity in migration and its outcomes for integration of migrants. The book is based on interviews with 57 subjects from various parts of Europe occupying various positions within Japanese society. What are the motivations for ... Read more
This book analyzes the increase in contemporary European migration to Japan, its causes and the lives of Europeans in Japan. Desconstructing the picture of highly skilled, privileged, cosmopolitan elites that has been frequently associated with white or Western migrants, it focuses on the case of Europeans rather than Westerners migrating to a highly developed, non-Western country as Japan, this book offers new insights on increasing diversity in migration and its outcomes for integration of migrants. The book is based on interviews with 57 subjects from various parts of Europe occupying various positions within Japanese society. What are the motivations for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
432g
Number of Pages
235
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137565266
SKU
V9781137565266
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Ref
99-15
About Milos Debnar
Milos Debnar is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Doshisha University, in Kyoto, Japan. He lectures on sociology and migration-related issues. Besides his interest in migration and whiteness, he has also published articles on global cities and on the contemporary family.
Reviews for Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan
Debnar presents to us a fine and well-thought-out qualitative study on European immigrants in contemporary Japan, and successfully questions many superfluous images of white migration to Japan and other countries outside the West. ... Debnar's book is surely the best-available study on current Western migration to Japan. It raises many important issues in migration research about Japan and beyond. ... Read more