Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Borderline Japan

Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era

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Produktbeschreibung

Shows how the Cold War played a decisive role in shaping Japan's migration controls, examining the origins of migration policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780521864602
• ISBN-10: 0521864607
• Artikelnr.: 28533357

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Border politics: rethinking Japan's migration controls
2. Drawing the line: from empire to Cold War
3. Crossing the line: 'unauthorized arrivals' in occupied Japan
4. Guarding the line: the Cold War and the immigration bureau
5. A place apart I: the armed archipelago
6. A place apart II: the liminal world of ¿mura
7. Special permission to stay: 'hidden lives' in postwar Japan
8. A point of no return: repatriation to China and North Korea
9. Beyond the postwar system: what changed
what stayed the same?