Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific : Migration, Language and Politics.
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen due to immigration and polic...
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Foreword by Koichi Iwabuchi
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Theories and Identities
- 2 Multicultural Coexistence in Japan: Follower, Innovator, or Reluctant Late Adopter?
- 3 A Critical Analysis of Multiculturalism and Deviant Identities: Untold Stories of Japanese Americans without Nations
- 4 Theorizing Multiculturalism: Modeling the Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in School-Based Multicultural Settings
- Part II Language and Language Policies
- 5 Who Owns Our Tongue? English, Academic Life, and Subjectivity
- 6 Preservice and Inservice English as a Foreign Language Teachers' Perceptions of the New Language Education Policy Regarding the Teaching of Classes in English at Japanese Senior High Schools
- 7 An Alternative Approach to Foreign LanguageEducation in Japan with a View toward Becominga Multicultural Society
- Part III Migration and Citizenship
- 8 Female Domestic Workers on the Move: Examining Global Householding and Global De-Householding in Today's World
- 9 Multiculturalism Policies and the Stepwise International Migration of Filipino Nurses: Implications for Japan
- 10 Who Benefits from Dual Citizenship? The New Nationality Law and Multicultural Future of South Korea
- 11 "Global Jinzai," Japanese Higher Education, and the Path to Multiculturalism: Imperative, Imposter, or Immature?
- Afterword
- Index.