Longer-Term Consequences of ‘Youth’ Migration: Japanese Temporary Migrants in China and the Life Course

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • High-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

  • Outsourcing to private actors

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history

Geographies

• Scope

  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • China
  • Japan