Foreign Workers and Law Enforcement in Japan

<p>This is a detailed study of the extent to which an increased influx of foreign workers is a threat to law and order in the context of the data-generating process of police statistics and the media coverage of crimes committed by foreigners. It shows that a general mood in which foreign workers are viewed as potential danger to Japanese society protects the criminalization of foreign illegal migrant workers. </p><p>The work begins by tracing the upsurge of illegal foreign workers in Japan. It builds a social profile of these illegals showing that because of fear of expulsion lack of knowledge of the law and over-dependence on employer and workplace their ability to avail themselves off the protection of the law is neglible and they are always at risk of becoming victims to multiple exploitation. </p>