Coates, J. orcid.org/0000-0001-7905-9504 (2015) “Unseeing” Chinese Students in Japan: Understanding Educationally Channelled Migrant Experiences. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 44 (3). pp. 125-154. ISSN 1868-1026
Abstract
Chinese migrants are currently the largest group of non- Japanese nationals living in Japan. This growth is largely the result of educational migration, positioning many Chinese in Japan as studentmigrants. Based on 20 months’ ethnographic fieldwork in Ikebukuro, Tokyo’s unofficial Chinatown, this paper explores the ways in which the phenomenology of the city informs the desire for integration amongst young Chinese living in Japan. Discussions of migrant integration and representation often argue for greater recognition of marginalised groups. However, recognition can also intensify vulnerability for the marginalised. Chinese student-migrants’ relationship to Ikebukuro’s streets shows how young mobile Chinese in Tokyo come to learn to want to be “unseen.” Largely a response to the visual dynamics of the city, constituted by economic inequality, spectacle, and surveillance, the experiences of young Chinese students complicate the ways we understand migrants’ desires for recognition and integration.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies. All rights reserved. The Journal of Current Chinese Affairs is an Open Access publication. It may be read, copied and distributed free of charge according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ |
Keywords: | China; Japan; migration; recognition |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of East Asian Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2019 14:00 |
Last Modified: | 29 Apr 2019 14:03 |
Published Version: | https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/arti... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien (GIGA) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:145213 |