Why Japan Is Not a Migration State: A Case of Postcolonial Migration Management and Increased Side-Door Policies

Jaisang Sun ()
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Jaisang Sun: Syracuse University

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2022, vol. 23, issue 3, No 20, 1357-1376

Abstract: Abstract In their article, James Hollifield and Michael Sharpe argue that Japan is an “emerging migration state” due to its increased efforts to liberalize the rights accorded to migrants. However, this paper argues that Japan’s exercise of “side-door immigration policies” like the Economic Partnership Agreements does not warrant such assessment of Japan. The notion of “migration state,” from Hollifield (1998, Hollifield, International Migration Review 38:885–912, 2004), requires a state to be constrained by “embedded liberalism” and “rights-based politics.” These necessary conditions of a “migration state,” however, must be understood in the context of a free-market flow of migration, which contemporary Japan does not exhibit.

Keywords: Japan; Immigration; Migration state; Liberal paradox; Economic Partnership Agreement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s12134-021-00865-7

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