Population Aging And International Health Caregiver Migration To Japan

Author : Gabriele Vogt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319680129
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Population Aging and International Health-Caregiver Migration to Japan written by Gabriele Vogt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces Japan’s current policy initiatives directed at eldercare and international labor migration, and, wherever appropriate,it adds a comparative perspective from Germany. The book shows how eldercare is currently being organized and discusses integration policies for foreigners. It studies the policy-making process behind the system, and contextualizes the migration avenue within the strong roots of Japan’s eldercare in local communities and the non-preparedness of the nation to grant local citizenship to international newcomers. Through applying an approach of multi-level policy making, putting a strong focus on the local level and introducing new approaches, this book is of interest to policy makers and scholars in aging, migration, health care, and contemporary Japan.

Author : Gabriele Vogt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Invisible Policy Shift written by Gabriele Vogt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitherto Japan's migration policy in a nutshell read “exclusively highly skilled migration” and “exclusively temporary migration.” Faced with the enormous speed of Japan's demographic change, however, the government has started to open up the national labor market to foreign workers. Under bilateral Economic Partnership Agreements that Japan tied with the Philippines in 2006 and with Indonesia in 2007, up to 1,000 health-care workers per nation per year are invited to relocate to Japan and work in their professions there. Labor market liberalization at this point precedes sector-specific and nation-specific. The pioneering sector is the health-care sector, a traditional center of feminized work, and with its low prestige and low income despite the long working hours, a highly marginalized profession in Japan and elsewhere. The health care sector is also the one business sector most directly confronted with Japan's population aging: The number of beneficiaries of long-term care insurance is expected to almost double by 2025 (from 4.5 to 8.4 million), while even today there is a severe shortage of qualified workers in the field. In this paper I will argue that Japan's demographic change triggered a migration policy shift, which despite its fundamental character did not become an issue neither in the nation's public nor its political discourse. The invisible nature of this policy shift will once again support the notion of health-care work as a marginalized profession - by many governmental officials - deemed to be best conducted by groups with limited access to political decision making, such as lower educated female workers or labor migrants. The policy process, which led to this invisible policy reform, is studied through a qualitative content analysis of government documents and expert interviews. Special focus shall be placed on the activities of national-level political actors, such as the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Ministry of Justice, the Japan Nursing Association, and the Japan Business Federation.

Author : Rosow, Stephen J.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788977696
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconfigurations of Authority, Power and Territoriality written by Rosow, Stephen J. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expansive and engaging, this book investigates the fluidity of sites of power and authority in global politics. Examining the key shifts and turns of politics in globally oriented spaces since the end of the Cold War, contributions from leading scholars explore the continually shifting parameters of global governance.

Author : Akihiro Ogawa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000054209
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Frontiers in Japanese Studies written by Akihiro Ogawa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from ‘demystifying the Japanese’, to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future directions for research into the 2020s and beyond. Shifting the geographical emphasis of Japanese Studies away from the West to the Asia-Pacific region, this book identifies topic areas in which research focusing on Japan will play an important role in global debates in the coming years. This includes the evolution of area studies, coping with aging populations, the various patterns of migration and environmental breakdown. With chapters from an international team of contributors, including significant representation from the Asia-Pacific region, this book enacts Yoshio Sugimoto’s notion of ‘cosmopolitan methodology’ to discuss Japan in an interdisciplinary and transnational context and provides overviews of how Japanese Studies is evolving in other Asian countries such as China and Indonesia. New Frontiers in Japanese Studies is a thought-provoking volume and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese and Asian Studies. The Introduction and Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Masakazu Washio
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811317623
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health Issues and Care System for the Elderly written by Masakazu Washio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on health issues that concern both aging patients and their caregivers, and provides practical and in-depth insights. The respective chapters address various topics including locomotive organ disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease and more. Japan is currently experiencing a massive growth in its elderly population, and at a speed unmatched elsewhere in the world. As such, this edited volume offers a valuable guide for countries that are likely to experience an increase in their elderly population, especially with regard to the epidemiological findings and cohort studies in Japan that it presents. Health Issues and Care System for the Elderly offers a valuable resource for both new and established researchers, doctors, healthcare workers, and students who are seeking information on health problems involving the elderly in the field of public health and gerontology.

Author : John W. Traphagan
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791456491
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society written by John W. Traphagan and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A demographic and ethnographic exploration of how the aging Japanese society is affecting the family.

Author : Ruriko Otomo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031332342
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linking Language, Trade and Migration written by Ruriko Otomo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effect of trade policy on language which represents an underrecognized area in the field of language policy and planning. It argues that trade policies like Japan’s Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) have important consequences for national language (education) policies and for discourses about language and nation. Since 2008, Japan has signed the EPAs with Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam to recruit migrant nurses and eldercare workers and manage their mobility by means of pre-employment language training and the Japanese-medium licensure examinations. Through the analysis of these language management devices, this book demonstrates that the EPAs are a manifestation and representation of contemporary language issues intertwined particularly with pressing issues of Japan’s social aging and demographic change. As the EPAs are intertwined with welfare, economy, social cohesion, and international political and economic relations and competitiveness, the book presents a far more complex picture of and a richer potential of language policy.

Author : Jens Arnholtz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429632258
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Posted Work in the European Union written by Jens Arnholtz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on posting of workers, where workers employed in one country are send to work in another country, this edited volume is at the nexus of industrial relations and European Union studies. The central aim is to understand how the regulatory regime of worker "posting" is driving institutional changes to national industrial relations systems. In the introduction, the editors develop a framework for understanding the relationship of supra-national EU regulation, transnational actors and national industrial relations systems, which we then apply in the empirical chapters. This unique volume brings together scholars from diverse academic fields, all of whom are experts on the topic of "worker posting." The book examines different aspects of the posting debate, including the interactions of actors such as labour inspectorates, trade unions, European legal/political regulators, manpower firms, transnational subcontractors and posted workers. The main objective of this book is to explore the dynamics of institutional change, by showing how trans- and supra-national dynamics affect European industrial relations systems. This volume will represent the "state of the art" in research on worker posting. It will also contribute to debates on European integration, social dumping, labour market dualization and precariousness and will be of value to those with an interest employment relations, law and regulation.

Author : Patrick Heinrich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351818392
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics written by Patrick Heinrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics provides an insight into the language and society of contemporary Japan from a fresh perspective. While it was once believed that Japan was a linguistically homogenous country, research over the past two decades has shown Japan to be a multilingual and sociolinguistically diversifying country. Building on this approach, the contributors to this handbook take this further, combining Japanese and western approaches alike and producing research which is relevant to twenty-first century societies. Organised into five parts, the sections covered include: The languages and language varieties of Japan. The multilingual ecology. Variation, style and interaction. Language problems and language planning. Research overviews. With contributions from across the field of Japanese sociolinguistics, this handbook will prove very useful for students and scholars of Japanese Studies, as well as sociolinguists more generally.

Author : Iris Chi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134735510
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long-Term Care in the 21st Century written by Iris Chi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who pays for long-term care? Discover the unique approaches of seven countries around the Pacific Rim! Long-Term Care in the Twenty-First Century discusses policies and programs for long-term care in seven countries around the Asia-Pacific Rim: the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Each country is covered in two chapters, one to examine the philosophy and values that underlie its approaches to long-term care, the second to discuss its systems of service delivery. These thoughtful analyses, backed up with facts and figures, explain program successes and failures in the context of demographic and social trends and with reference to the differing political systems across the region. Its breadth of perspective and insightful examination of cultural differences make Long-Term Care in the Twenty-First Century an important contribution to the international comparative study of aging. The programs in the United States, Australia, and Canada offer a fascinating contrast with the longer-established and very different programs in the Asian countries, including Japan, the world’s oldest country. Long-Term Care in the Twenty-First Century provides practical information on essential gerontological issues for each country, including: financing arrangements development of client classification systems case management in both residential and community-based systems key source documents, references, and Web sites political and cultural influences home-based and family caregiving This valuable book provides a critical record of developments in the current transition period. This multicultural perspective contributes a chance for all countries to learn from the experience of others in dealing with a problem that is increasingly important as the world population ages. Long-Term Care in the Twenty-First Century is an essential resource for scholars, service providers, policymakers, and anyone concerned with care of the aged, not only in Pacific Rim countries but around the world.