Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies write by Erin Aeran Chung. This book was released on 2020-10-08. Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite labour shortages and rapidly shrinking working-age populations, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan shared restrictive immigration policies and exclusionary practices toward immigrants until the early 2000s. While Taiwan maintained this trajectory, Japan took incremental steps to expand immigrant services at the grassroots level, and South Korea enacted sweeping immigration reforms. How did convergent policies generate these divergent patterns of immigrant incorporation? Departing from the dominant scholarship that focuses on culture, domestic political elites, and international norms, this book shows the important role of civil society actors - including immigrants themselves - in giving voice to immigrant interests, mobilizing immigrant actors, and shaping public debate and policy on immigration. Based on more than 150 in-depth interviews and focus groups with over twenty immigrant communities, Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies examines how the civic legacies of past struggles for democracy shape current movements for immigrant rights and recognition.
Immigration and Citizenship in Japan
Immigration and Citizenship in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Immigration and Citizenship in Japan write by Erin Aeran Chung. This book was released on 2014-05-01. Immigration and Citizenship in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japan is currently the only advanced industrial democracy with a fourth-generation immigrant problem. As other industrialized countries face the challenges of incorporating postwar immigrants, Japan continues to struggle with the incorporation of prewar immigrants and their descendants. Whereas others have focused on international norms, domestic institutions, and recent immigration, this book argues that contemporary immigration and citizenship politics in Japan reflect the strategic interaction between state efforts to control immigration and grassroots movements by multi-generational Korean resident activists to gain rights and recognition specifically as permanently settled foreign residents of Japan. Based on in-depth interviews and fieldwork conducted in Tokyo, Kawasaki, and Osaka, this book aims to further our understanding of democratic inclusion in Japan by analyzing how those who are formally excluded from the political process voice their interests and what factors contribute to the effective representation of those interests in public debate and policy.
Immigrant Nations
Immigrant Nations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Immigrant Nations write by Paul Scheffer. This book was released on 2011-06-20. Immigrant Nations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A defence of the meaning and function of borders and their necessity in the face of authoritarian attitudes to multiculturalism
Black Identities
Black Identities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Identities write by Mary C. WATERS. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Black Identities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different story. She finds that the values that gain first-generation immigrants initial success--a willingness to work hard, a lack of attention to racism, a desire for education, an incentive to save--are undermined by the realities of life and race relations in the United States. Contrary to long-held beliefs, Waters finds, those who resist Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation.
Changing Societies, Changing Party Systems
Changing Societies, Changing Party Systems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changing Societies, Changing Party Systems write by Heather Stoll. This book was released on 2013-11-25. Changing Societies, Changing Party Systems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do changes in society that increase the heterogeneity of the citizenry shape democratic party systems? This book seeks to answer this question. It focuses on the key mechanism by which social heterogeneity shapes the number of political parties: new social groups successfully forming new, sectarian parties. Why are some groups successful at this while others fail? Drawing on cross-national statistical analyses and case studies of Sephardi and Russian immigration to Israel and African American enfranchisement in the United States, this book demonstrates that social heterogeneity does matter. However, it makes the case that to understand when and how social heterogeneity matters, factors besides the electoral system – most importantly, the regime type, the strategies played by existing parties, and the size and politicization of new social groups – must be taken into account. It also demonstrates that sectarian parties play an important role in securing descriptive representation for new groups.
