Everyday Mobility: the Normalization of China-Japan Migratory Flows and their ‘Everyday Practice’

• Authors: Jamie Coates
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Chinese migrants now constitute the largest group of registered ‘foreigners’ in Japan, with over 600,000 documented in 2006. This is the result of an intersection between the Chinese government’s drive for educational and economic success, and Japan’s flexible student visa labour system. It is the product of a ‘normalization’ of mobility amongst young mobile Chinese. Based on 20 months fieldwork in Tokyo, Japan, I explore the ways in which the decision to move is experienced as mundane, and how it is negotiated as a form of ‘everyday practice.’ Through this lens, this article posits multiple relationships between mobility, its limits and how this relates to mobile people’s sense of place in the world.

Keywords

EN

Japan; China; young mobility; everyday practice

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 7-26

Dates

published

2013-02-01

online

2015-05-06

Contributors

author

Jamie Coates

• Department of Anthropology School of Culture, History and Language Australian National University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2013-0002