Foreign Workers Recruiting Policies in Japan
In: Asian and Pacific migration journal: APMJ, Band 5, Heft 2-3, S. 241-264
This article presents the basic characteristics of the foreign workers recruiting policy in Japan, which consists on barring entry to unskilled workers, and confronts it with the actual tolerance for a large number of illegal unskilled workers. After a historical overview of the reasons for the current policy, the article examines elements which reveal that a seclusionist policy is based on mistaken assumptions and reviews policy options to deal with the issue of illegal migration.