It developed its domestic labor shortages late relative to West European states such as France and Germany. Japanese governing elites see Western European labor migrant policy as failure.
In this chapter, Strausz showed us the situation that foreign workers (or we should say interns or students) is facing, and the analyze to the policy history. To sum up, although Japan has been facing aging-population and low birth rate for decades, it seems still no way for them to admit the fact they need immigrant workers or to make a real, official migrant policy. Rather, they are used to disguising their needs for immigrant workers by making some terms or certifications such as trainee, international cooperation program(kokusai-kyoryoku).
At the following paragraph, Strausz pointed out the fact that those from non-Western nations usually get more seriously mistreatment, assumed they want to overstay intentionally. This reminds me Wallerstein's World-System Theory that Japanese located themselves beneath Western nations while above the others.
My suggestion is that, referring "failed policies" in West Europe, Japan has strategically, gradually changed its main source of migrant workers since 1990s. It started with the undocumented labors which reached its peak at 1995, and was replaced by Nikkei Brazilian and Peruvian who was replaced by Chinese trainee or students. (I didn't count the Zainichi Korean due to their ambiguity of nation.) This kind of notion reflect the Japanese reluctance to open their border for migrants to fulfill domestic demands of labors, and they attempted to control every "introduced species which have potential causing damaged to Japanese holy circumstance".
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As I mentioned at the previous paper, the newest tokutei ginou 1&2 may show some humanity and tolerence to foreigner workers. But I argue that maybe it is merely resulted from reality; the reality Japanese government realized they have to make Japan be more attractive to ask migrants to come. When I was making application to Japanese graduate schools, I bought several journals published by Japan Association for Migration Policy Studies. Thankfully, the articles in these journals argued about how Japan should treat migrants nicely. However, in these articles, I can still read dimension of efficiency and sufficiency of Japanese migrant policies. I am not judging this kind of purpose, but I still argue that Japanese remains a strong tendency to introduce migrants slowly and steadily with everything is under their control and expection.
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