Labor migration from China to Japan : international students, transnational migrants / / Gracia Liu-Farrer

• Autore: Liu-Farrer Gracia
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.6/251052
• Soggetto topico: Labor supply - China; Foreign workers, Chinese - Japan; Chinese students - Japan - Social conditions; International business enterprises - Japan; Transnationalism
• Soggetto geografico: China Emigration and immigration
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Fuji Dongying : a century of Chinese student migration to Japan -- Parting at the starting point : visa overstaying as social process -- Labouring to learn : student migrant life in Japan -- Careers in Japan's transnational economy -- Producing global economies from below : migrants' transnational entrepreneurship -- Lives spanned across borders.
• Sommario/riassunto: Chinese students are the largest international student population in the world, and Japan attracts more of them than any other country. Since the mid-1980s when China opened the door to let private citizens out and Japan began to let more foreigners in, over 300 thousand Chinese have arrived in Japan as students. Student migrants are the most visible, controversial and active Chinese immigrants in Japan. The majority of them enter Japan's labour market and many have stayed on indefinitely. Based on the author's original fieldwork data and government statistics, this book gives
• Titolo autorizzato: Labor migration from China to Japan
• ISBN: 1-136-76615-4; 1-283-15131-6; 9786613151315; 1-136-76616-2; 0-203-82264-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822934903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series ; ; 77.