Main description:

This book introduces Japan's current policy initiatives directed at eldercare and international labor migration, and, wherever appropriate,it adds a comparative perspective from Germany. The book shows how eldercare is currently being organized and discusses integration policies for foreigners. It studies the policy-making process behind the system, and contextualizes the migration avenue within the strong roots of Japan's eldercare in local communities and the non-preparedness of the nation to grant local citizenship to international newcomers. Through applying an approach of multi-level policy making, putting a strong focus on the local level and introducing new approaches, this book is of interest to policy makers and scholars in aging, migration, health care, and contemporary Japan.

Contents:

Chapter. 1. Introduction: Population Aging, Health-Caregiving, and International Labor Migration to Japan.- Chapter. 2. Health-Caregiving to the Elderly in Japan: Professionalized Labor, Community Based Approaches, and International Migration.- Chapter. 3. International Health-Caregiver Migration to Japan and Germany: Policies Designed to Fail.- Chapter. 4.International Migration to Japan: Political and Societal Responses to the Challenge of Integration.- Chapter. 5. Outlook: International Health-Caregiver Migration to Japan.