Mobile Japanese Migrants to the Pacific West and East

<p>This book explores “self-searching migrants” a new group of indefinitely globally mobile people whose purpose of overseas stay is the search of true self and the work they really want to do using Japanese trans-Pacific sojourners as the case study.</p><p>Utilizing testimonies collected from interviews with Japanese migrants in their twenties to forties who had entered the job market between the early 1990s and 2010 and left for the English-speaking countries of Canada Australia and Singapore the book argues that their practices are both ubiquitous and unique the products of global and local contexts of a specific time. As semiskilled migrants from an extra-Western postindustrial country their struggles show a different picture of the West-centric world power system from those experienced by migrant workers from the Global South.</p><p>Including extensive qualitative research and interview material collected over a 20-year period this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society cultural anthropology and migration.</p>