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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Apichai W. ShipperPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781501704413ISBN 10: 1501704419 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 21 March 2016 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Associative Activism 2. Controlling Foreigners: Japan's Foreign Worker Policy 3. Long-Distance Nationalism: Political Activities of Immigrant Ethnic Associations 4. Democracy of Illegals: Organizing Support for Illegal Foreigners 5. Local Partners: Local Governments and Immigrant Rights NGOs 6. Foreigners in the Public Sphere: Contesting Prevalent Social Meanings 7. Conclusion: Foreigners and Democracy Appendix IndexReviewsShipper's work offers a good summary of Japanese immigration policy with its racial characteristics and explores how NGOs challenge the abuse of foreigner crime statistics by self-interested politicians and police. An important thread in the book illuminates the relationship between international norms such as UN treaties and the openness of the Japanese government to NGOs lobbying for the rights of foreigners. Summing Up: Essential. -Choice Shipper argues that by working from the bottom up, immigrant rights organizations have pursued policies of pragmatic and creative activism. They are problem solvers in an environment in which their potential clients are without political resources. In the process of dealing with specific problems, they have helped to create new processes, informal institutions, and protections. -Perspectives on Politics Fighting for Foreigners is an interesting and thoughtful intervention on the subject of immigration in Japan. It is crisply written and based on very impressive research. Apichai W. Shipper's exposure of crucial (and disheartening) tensions between ethnic organizations and illegal immigrants in Japan is particularly incisive and valuable. It will be as welcome a contribution to debates about Asian diasporas as it will be to those on Japanese social politics. -David Leheny, Henry Wendt III '55 Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University Many scholars have of late concerned themselves with demonstrating the multicultural nature of the Japanese society against the conventional view of a homogeneous Japan. In Fighting for Foreigners, Apichai W. Shipper goes beyond simple demonstration and paves the way toward an understanding of Japan as developing a multiethnic democracy through 'associative activism,' whereby numerous grassroots Japanese NGOs support illegal foreigners residing in Japan. This is a pathbreaking work in conceptualizing a Japan in which increasing numbers of foreigners, legal and illegal, will be working and staying in the foreseeable future. -Harumi Befu, Stanford University ""Shipper's work offers a good summary of Japanese immigration policy with its racial characteristics and explores how NGOs challenge the abuse of foreigner crime statistics by self-interested politicians and police. An important thread in the book illuminates the relationship between international norms such as UN treaties and the openness of the Japanese government to NGOs lobbying for the rights of foreigners. Summing Up: Essential.""-Choice ""Shipper argues that by working from the bottom up, immigrant rights organizations have pursued policies of pragmatic and creative activism. They are problem solvers in an environment in which their potential clients are without political resources. In the process of dealing with specific problems, they have helped to create new processes, informal institutions, and protections.""-Perspectives on Politics ""Fighting for Foreigners is an interesting and thoughtful intervention on the subject of immigration in Japan. It is crisply written and based on very impressive research. Apichai W. Shipper's exposure of crucial (and disheartening) tensions between ethnic organizations and illegal immigrants in Japan is particularly incisive and valuable. It will be as welcome a contribution to debates about Asian diasporas as it will be to those on Japanese social politics.""-David Leheny, Henry Wendt III '55 Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University ""Many scholars have of late concerned themselves with demonstrating the multicultural nature of the Japanese society against the conventional view of a homogeneous Japan. In Fighting for Foreigners, Apichai W. Shipper goes beyond simple demonstration and paves the way toward an understanding of Japan as developing a multiethnic democracy through 'associative activism,' whereby numerous grassroots Japanese NGOs support illegal foreigners residing in Japan. This is a pathbreaking work in conceptualizing a Japan in which increasing numbers of foreigners, legal and illegal, will be working and staying in the foreseeable future.""-Harumi Befu, Stanford University Author InformationApichai W. Shipper holds the Asia Regional Chair at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State and is Adjunct Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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