Transnational migrants and the socio-spatial superdiversification of the global city Tokyo

Sakura Yamamura

Urban Studies, 2022, vol. 59, issue 16, 3382-3403

Abstract: Tokyo illustrates a particularly interesting case of differential inclusions of transnational migrants in urban spaces, as the novel turn in migration policy in coordination with urban economic development has induced the arrival and diversification of migrant populations into the city. With the recent historic opening of the country to lower-skilled labour migration as well as measures to (re-) attract the global economy, thus incentivising transnational corporate professionals to relocate to specific national economic zones within the city, Tokyo is in a new socio-spatial diversification process. With a non-ethno-focal lens on transnational migration and focusing on upper-class transnational corporate migrants, this article discusses diversification regarding the newer arrivals of migrants who are differently included in the urban spaces as compared to older generations of migrants. It delivers novel accounts of a diversifying transnational migrant groups’ socio-spatial patterns within Tokyo, which illustrate the dynamics of differential inclusions resulting from the superdiversification of urban societies. The article gives new insights into the socio-spatial diversification dynamics of transnational urban spaces in a long-neglected but highly topical Asian arrival city, and conceptually reflects such localised superdiversification of urban spaces on a global scale.

Keywords: global city; socio-spatial diversification; superdiversity; transnational migration; transnational space; å…¨ç ƒåŸŽå¸‚; 社会空间多元化; 超级多元化; 跨国移民; 跨国空间 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980221114213

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