‘The Politics of Exclusion: Japan’s Pilot Refugee Resettlement Programme’

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dc.contributor.authorHatcher, Pascale
dc.contributor.authorMurakami A
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-18T00:07:00Z
dc.date.available2020-06-18T00:07:00Z
dc.date.issued2020en
dc.date.updated2020-05-08T21:16:18Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses the socio-political significance of Japan’s Pilot Refugee Resettlement Program (RRP). It asks three questions: why Japan adopted this program, why the program has failed to meet its targets, and whether this program signals a significant shift in Japan’s restrictive policies towards refugees and immigration more broadly. Insights from critical race theory suggest that the context of race remains a key determinant for understanding Japan’s historical and contemporary refugee policies and discourse. The paper concludes that embedded racism was prevalent in decisions surrounding the Pilot RRP and as such, despite the appearance of change, race continues to be solidly rooted in Japan’s policies and discourses. In such light, any serious strategy to revamp immigration and refugee policies in Japan needs to bring the country’s history of racism to the forefront of the discussion.en
dc.identifier.citationHatcher P, Murakami A (2020). ‘The Politics of Exclusion: Japan’s Pilot Refugee Resettlement Programme’. Race and Class: a journal of racism, empire and globalisation. April 20, 2020en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0306396820917068
dc.identifier.issn0306-3968
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/100646
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stateden
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectcritical race theoryen
dc.subjectJapanen
dc.subjectracismen
dc.subjectrefugeesen
dc.subjectUNHCRen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::44 - Human society::4408 - Political science::440807 - Government and politics of Asia and the Pacificen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::16 - Studies in Human Society::1603 - Demography::160303 - Migrationen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::44 - Human society::4403 - Demography::440305 - Population trends and policiesen
dc.title‘The Politics of Exclusion: Japan’s Pilot Refugee Resettlement Programme’en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
uc.collegeFaculty of Arts
uc.departmentLanguage, Social and Political Sciences
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