Fighting for foreigners : immigration and its impact on Japanese democracy / Apichai W. Shipper.
Fighting for foreigners : immigration and its impact on Japanese democracy / Apichai W. Shipper.
Fighting for foreigners : immigration and its impact on Japanese democracy / Apichai W. Shipper.
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Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, c2008.
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N320.952/ 33
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English
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xv, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : associative activism -- Controlling foreigners : Japan's foreign worker policy -- Long-distance nationalism : political activities of immigrant ethnic associations -- Democracy of illegals : organizing support for illegal foreigners -- Local partners : local governments and immigrant...
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Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, c2008.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2008.
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"Drawing on his years of ethnographic fieldwork and a pragmatic account of political motivation he calls associative activism, Shipper asserts that institutions that support illegal foreigners make the most dramatic contributions to democratic multiculturalism. As debates about the costs and benefits of immigration rage across the developed world,...
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Fighting for foreigners : immigration and its impact on Japanese democracy / Apichai W. Shipper.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2008.
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N320.952/ 33
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74VMjx2zwMa3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMjx2zwMa3
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9780801447150
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320.952
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991001256009702626
