Why Japan isn’t more attractive to highly-skilled migrants

Morita, Liang

doi:10.1080/23311886.2017.1306952

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“…Also, although the tabunka kyōsei (multicultural living together) campaign to incorporate the growing number of post-2000 foreigners has been promoted by the government, schools and companies, tabunka kyōsei is not multiculturalism. Rather, it promotes assimilation, where only foreigners are expected to change (Oishi, 2012b) and it encourages foreigners to adapt to Japan without challenging long-established Japanese codes of conduct (Morita, 2017). Vogt (2017) argues that the difficulty in accepting multiculturalism is rooted in exceptionally high Japanese distrust toward foreigners—the highest among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries—which is especially striking if compared to the exceptionally high trust Japanese people have in their fellow nationals.…”

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“…Foreign employees in Japanese companies encounter even greater difficulties combining localization and assimilation. First, Japanese companies insist on doing things the Japanese way, allowing little room for foreigners to do otherwise (Maki et al., 2015; Morita, 2017). Second, the Japanese workplace expects employees to possess “soft skills” indispensable for communication and forging networks (Conrad and Meyer-Ohle, 2019b).…”

Section: Combining the “Global” And The “Local”: The Ideal Foreign Skmentioning

confidence: 99%

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When “global talents” struggle to become local workers: The new face of skilled migration to corporate Japan

Hof

Tseng

2020

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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Although more Japanese companies are recruiting foreign employees, few studies have paid attention to foreign workers’ struggles in the workplace and their perceptions of their career over the long term. This study qualitatively explores the experiences of Asian and European locally hired white-collar employees in Japanese firms. It finds that although their numbers are rising, foreigners struggle with Japanese firms’ expectations for foreigners to assimilate regardless of nationality or ethnicity. Overall, firms focus on the assimilation of foreign employees. Thus, while the migrants are hired as “global talents,” Japanese firms expect them to act like local workers.

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Section: Combining the “Global” And The “Local”: The Ideal Foreign Skmentioning

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When “global talents” struggle to become local workers: The new face of skilled migration to corporate Japan

Hof

Tseng

2020

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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“…This meant that non-attunement or non-participation were sometimes survival strategies. Professor Ross commented on how migrant academics were excluded from institutional decision-making: Migrants were sometimes seen as temporary visitors in contrast to the long-service career tendencies of many Japanese employees (Morita 2017b). As such, their engagement was seen as fragile and easily ruptured.…”

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The affective economy of internationalisation: migrant academics in and out of Japanese higher education

Morley

Leyton

Hada³

2019

Policy Reviews in Higher Education

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Internationalisation is a polyvalent policy discourse, saturated in conceptual and ideological ambiguity. It is an assemblage of commodification, exploitation and opportunity and is a container for multiple aspirations, anxieties, and affordances. It combines modernisation, detraditionalisation, and expansiveness, with knowledge capitalism, linguistic imperialism, and market dominance. There are notable policy shadows and silences, especially relating to the emerging subjectivities, motivations and narratives of internationalised subjects, and experiences that expose the gendered, racialised, epistemic and affective inequalities constituting academic mobility. This paper explores the affective economy and policyscape of internationalisation drawing upon interview data gathered in one private and one national university in Japan with 13 migrant academics. What emerged from our study is that internationalisation policies, processes and practices generate multiple affective engagements. Internationalising oneself can be repressive and generative, with migrant academics finding themselves both vulnerable and animated by their diverse and frequently embodied experiences.

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“…Another cause is that foreign firms do not usually build deep relationships with Japanese people as the local firms do. Therefore, foreign firms often feel pressured to engage in corporate sustainable activities (Morita, ).…”

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Sustainable development and the rating effects: A strategic categorization approach

Zeng

Xu²

2019

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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With the increasing call for sustainable development, rating agencies of corporate sustainability performance (CSP) have got a good momentum of development all over the world. Different from past studies that utilize stakeholder theory or information economics in explaining rating effects, this study takes a strategic categorization approach to investigate firm responses to CSP ratings of a newly emerging rating agency. Using a sample of listed firms in Japan, our study finds that compared with firms with moderate CSP rating scores, firms with high or low rating scores are more likely to increase their corporate philanthropic contributions, and such an effect is strengthened when the firms have higher levels of foreign ownership. This study contributes to the literature by enriching our understanding of how the rating of a newly emerging rating agency shapes firms' sustainable activities.

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Why Japan isn’t more attractive to highly-skilled migrants

Cited by 14 publications

References 16 publications

When “global talents” struggle to become local workers: The new face of skilled migration to corporate Japan

When “global talents” struggle to become local workers: The new face of skilled migration to corporate Japan

The affective economy of internationalisation: migrant academics in and out of Japanese higher education

Sustainable development and the rating effects: A strategic categorization approach

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