Multiculturalism in East Asia: A Transnational Exploration of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan (Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches) - Softcover

Koichi, Iwabuchi

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ISBN 10: 1783484985 ISBN 13: 9781783484980

Verlag: Rli, 2016

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An examination of multiculturalism in East Asia using a transnational approach. The collection focuses in on Japan, Korea and Taiwan to examine key issues including policy, racial discourse, subjectivity and the implications for established ethic minority communities.

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Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Director of Monash Asia Institute, Monash University in Melbourne.

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Multiculturalism in East Asia

A Transnational Exploration of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

By Koichi Iwabuchi, Hyun Mee Kim, Hsiao-Chuan Hsia

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Copyright © 2016 Koichi Iwabuchi, Hyun Mee Kim and Hsiao-Chuan Hsia
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Contents

1 Rethinking Multiculturalism from a Trans-East-Asian Perspective Koichi Iwabuchi, Hyun Mee Kim and Hsiao-Chuan Hsia, 1, 
SECTION 1: MULTICULTURALISM POLICY DISCOURSE: CRITICAL INTERROGATION, 19, 
2 Korean Multiculturalism and Its Discontents Ji-Hyun Ahn, 21, 
3 Multicultural Taiwan: Policy Developments and Challenges Li-Jung Wang, 37, 
4 Multicultural Co-living (tabunka kyosei) in Japan: Localized Engagement without Multiculturalism Koichi Iwabuchi, 55, 
SECTION 2: RACIALIZATION OF MULTICULTURAL SITUATIONS, 69, 
5 The Racialization of Multicultural Families by Media in a Multicultural Nation Hyesil Jung, 71, 
6 Enacting Race and the Nation in Taiwan: How Immigration Laws Embody the Dark Side of the Nation-building Process in Taiwan Bruce Yuan-Hao Liao, 85, 
7 Intersecting Japanese Nationalism and Racism as Everyday Practices: Toward Constructing a Multiculturalist Japanese Society Yuko Kawai, 103, 
SECTION 3: CULTURAL POLITICS OF MULTICULTURAL SUBJECT MAKINGS, 125, 
8 Can "Multicultural Soldiers" Serve the Nation? The Social Debate about the Military Service Management of Mixed-Race Draftees in South Korea Hyun Mee Kim, 127, 
9 The Making of Multiculturalistic Subjectivity: The Case of Marriage Migrants' Empowerment in Taiwan Hsiao-Chuan Hsia, 141, 
10 Historicizing Mixed-Race Representations in Japan: From Politicization to Identity Formation Sachiko Horiguchi and Yuki Imoto, 163, 
SECTION 4: MULTICULTURALISM AND LONG-EXISTING ETHNIC MINORITIES, 183, 
11 Hwagyo under the Multiculturalism in South Korea: Residual Chinese or Emerging Transcultural Subject? Hyunjoon Shin, 185, 
12 Multiculturalism and Indigenous Peoples: A Critical Review of the Experience in Taiwan Daya Dakasi Da-Wei Kuan, 203, 
13 Living in Love and Hate: Transforming Representations and Identities of Zainichi Koreans in Contemporary Japan Kohei Kawabata, 221, 
Index, 235, 
About the Contributors, 239, 

CHAPTER 1

Rethinking Multiculturalism from a Trans-East-Asian Perspective

Koichi Iwabuchi, Hyun Mee Kim and Hsiao-Chuan Hsia

The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed the profusion of multicultural policies and discourses in East Asian countries, including in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, which have been historically identified as more "ethnically homogenous" than most other countries in the world (Castles and Davision 2000). While these three countries have not yet developed a comprehensive, consistent policy on migration and multiculturalism, the increasing number of migrants they have accepted and the intensifying cultural diversity that accompanies have already posed vital social issues they are faced with in this new century. This edited volume examines the growing multicultural encounters, the accompanying policy discussions and racialized discourses on cultural diversity, as well as the processes of political and cultural negotiation that the marginalized newcomers and old-comers are drawn into. In addition to a problematic legacy of the Japanese imperial project, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan share an experience of inter-Asian migration in the process of ethno-cultural globalization since the late 1980s. In these three countries — in addition to their own indigenous or long-term racial and ethnic minorities — the number of foreign-national residents, migrants, and people of mixed heritage has risen notably in the last two to three decades. Although none of the governments welcomed migrants with open arms, the influx of laborers and international marriage migrants has been observed, primarily from China and Southeast Asia. More recently, due to the sharply declining birth rate and the rapidly aging population, with a strong push from domestic industrial sectors, governments in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have begun to discuss under what conditions migrants should be accepted and what policies should be implemented. In this context, there has been a growing focus on increased multicultural interactions within their borders and the impacts of cultural diversity on the fabric of their nations in the three countries.

This book adds to the emerging scholarly literature on multiculturalism in East Asia (e.g., Kymlicka and He 2005; Parreñas and Kim 2011; Eng, Collins & Yeoh 2013; Nagy 2014; Kim 2014) and takes a unique trans-East-Asian comparative and collaborative approach to examining emergent multicultural situations in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. In addition to contextualizing the situation in each of the countries represented, the contributors to this volume have been asked to consciously reference and compare domestic situations with other East Asian cases as well as to situate their cases in a wider, transnational context. Our intention was to add relevant voices from East Asia to our understanding of multiculturalism as a set of policies, discourses and practices that manage, negotiate with, and embrace growing human mobility and accompanied cultural diversity — a field that has developed primarily in Euro-American and Australian contexts. Our book also aims to denationalize the discussion of multiculturalism as a policy for managing cultural diversity within the nation-state. A trans-East-Asian perspective is significant as it elucidates the shared-ness and the "similarity-in-difference" when examining multicultural issues in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, as it endows us with fresh insights into the multicultural issues in a more transnationally informed sense. A full understanding of both the possibilities and limitations of multicultural policies, discourses, and practices as they have been addressed by national policy makers, local communities, NGOs, NPOs, civic organizations, and the migrant subjects themselves in the three societies will contribute to a renewed discussion of how one might advance a more multicultural future in domestic contexts as well as through transnational cooperation, dialogue, and mutual empowerment. In the following, we will offer our rationale for the consideration of trans-East-Asian multiculturalism by discussing in more detail the socio-historical backgrounds and the key issues that the three countries share.

CRISIS OF SOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND THE MIGRATION "BOOM"

We have been observing the growing impact of globalization and neoliberalism resulting in domestic and interregional migrations, which in turn has generated a wide range of changes that have deepened interdependency among and mobilities across nation-states in this new "age of migration" (Castles and Davidson 2000). East Asian countries are not exceptions to this trend, though they were latecomers in accepting migrants. Unlike the United States and European countries that encouraged family migration when faced with labor shortages after the 1960s, the three nations of East Asia — Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan — managed to achieve rapid economic development relying on their own ample domestic labor and, thus, did not actively accept migrants. However, these nation-states have been facing a demographic crisis of considerable proportion since the 1980s due to low fertility rates, a rapidly aging population, and a decline in able-bodied workers. In 2013, the birth...

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• Verlag: Rli
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1783484985
• ISBN 13: 9781783484980
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
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