Gracia Liu-Farrer’s Immigrant Japan draws upon nearly two decades of ethnographic research in Japan and incorporates insights from the author’s own lived experiences as an immigrant and eventually naturalized citizen in Japan to refute the all-too-common tendency to overlook the country as a migration destination worthy of particular attention and interest. She, instead, forcefully demonstrates that Japan is a site of substantial immigration that, while not a complete outlier, features several institutional and societal distinctions that meaningfully impact immigrants’ experiences and trajectories. Immigrant Japan’s analytical focus is anchored by two deeply inter-connected themes: mobility, the push-pull factors which first drew Liu-Farrer’s informants to the country and subsequently lead them to either stay or leave, and belonging, the process of relationship building between informants and members of their host society, which has the potential to create strong affective ties that help anchor migrants in their adopted setting.

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书评：日本移民：种族民族主义社会中的流动性和归属感

格拉西亚·刘·法拉（Gracia Liu-Farrer）的《日本移民》借鉴了日本近二十年的人种志研究，并结合了笔者作为日本移民并最终归化为日本公民的实际经验得出的见解，从而驳斥了将日本视为移民的普遍现象。值得特别注意和关注的目的地。相反，她有力地证明了日本是一个大量移民的地方，虽然不是一个完全孤立的地方，但它具有几个制度和社会上的区别，这些区别对移民的经历和轨迹产生了有意义的影响。日本移民的分析重点以两个相互关联的主题为基础：流动性，推拉因素，首先吸引了刘法耶的举报人，给国家和随后带领他们或者留下或者离开，和属于，举报人和所在国社会成员之间建立关系的过程，其中有创建强的潜力情感纽带，帮助将移民锚定在所采用的环境中。