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Accepted Paper:

"Localized" multiculturalism and nationalism in East Asia  
Hiroki Okada (Kobe University)

Paper short abstract:

A purpose of this paper is to discuss the relation between “localized “multiculturalism and Nationalism in the East Asia society (Japan and Korea) where is facing a problem of the rapid increase of the recent migrant labor.

Paper long abstract:

In this paper, I would like to compare the citizenship in Japan with Korea and take a consideration on a problem of "localized" multiculturalism and the nationalism in both society and after discuss the relation citizenship and nationalism in East Asia society.The phenomenon of an emigrant, the emigrating labor with the globalization have been aroused to an argument about the multiculturalism in the non-West society. Until 1990's, in the East Asia (Japan and Korea) have accepted the theories about emigrant society such as Australia, Canada and United States of America, and theories on the multiculturalism in Europe. However, it is hard to say that these society did not recognize immigrant and immigrant labor's problem that they were confronting, because Japan and Korea had a national concept of "one people, one-country and one-nation" and comprised of overwhelming majority and very few minority. This situation was shown in an emigrant policy having been absent until the 1990's. After 1990' these society have no choice alternative but to accept (sometimes reluctantly) emigrating labor from China, Southeast Asia and the Southern Asia. There was the problem of aging population with a declining birthrate and the strange situation called "the coexistence" of multiculturalism and the nationalism.I would like to take notice a contradiction; a supporter of "multi-cultural symbiosis (localized multiculturalism in Japan") are tend to be conservative nationalist at the same time in Japan and Korea.

Panel RM-MRB04
Migration and transnational dynamics of non-western civil societies
  Session 1