1 / 17

Yoshitaka Ishikawa (Kyoto University, Japan) and Kao-Lee Liaw (McMaster University, Canada)

The 1995-2000 interprefectural migration of foreign residents of Japan: salient features and multivariate explanation. Yoshitaka Ishikawa (Kyoto University, Japan) and Kao-Lee Liaw (McMaster University, Canada) The 4th International Conference on Population Geographies

jamuna
Download Presentation

Yoshitaka Ishikawa (Kyoto University, Japan) and Kao-Lee Liaw (McMaster University, Canada)

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The 1995-2000 interprefectural migration of foreign residents of Japan: salient features and multivariate explanation Yoshitaka Ishikawa (Kyoto University, Japan) and Kao-Lee Liaw (McMaster University, Canada) The 4th International Conference on Population Geographies at Hong Kong, China, on 12 July, 2007

  2. Existing literature focused on foreign residents in Japan ◆There has been a proliferation of research since the mid-1980s, when massive immigration started. ◆ Foreigner rate is low (1.6%）, but absolute number is large (approximately 2 million). ◆It is now an important research subject of all social sciences including geography.

  3. Difficulty in studying migration of foreign residents in Japan ◆ No comprehensive source; general migration patterns have remained unknown. ◆Published Reports of 2000 Census 1) specific origins are unknown both for immigration and internal migration 2) detailed migrants’ attributes are unknown ⇒special application to Japanese Statistics Bureau to obtain micro data samples

  4. Three perspectives to explain destination choice

  5. Comparison of interprefectural migration between foreign residents and total population

  6. Net-migration rate of Japanese interprefectural migration, 1995-2000

  7. Major foreign residents in Japan(2000) Census Alien registration ethnicity 1,310,545 1,686,444 (1.03%) (1.33%) Korean 528,904 635,269 Chinese 252,680 335,575 Brazil 188,190 254,394 Filipino 93,352 144,871 Others 247,419 316,335

  8. General features by major ethnicity

  9. General features by educational attainment

  10. Nested logit model Departure sub-model: ⇒dependent variable: choice probability of stay in, or departure from, the prefecture of usual residence in 1995 ⇒sample size: 69,308 persons Destination choice sub-model : ⇒ dependent variable: choice probability of a particular destination among 46 prefectures ⇒ sample size: 42,301 persons

  11. Explanatory variables Individual attributes <De, DC>: age,educational attainment, sex, ethnicity, family status Labour market related <De, DC>: employment opportunity, income level Co-ethnicattraction <De, DC> Marital opportunity : <De, DC> Prefectural size <De, DC> Competition with new immigrants <De, DC> Spatial separation <DC>:distance, contiguity Inclusive variable <De>

  12. Why is international marriage in Tohoku region important? ● The stem family system is dominant in such region as Tohoku. To maintain this system, marriage is essential for household head’s son as successor. ●Due to imbalanced sex ratio, the issue of marriage squeeze for male population is serious in eastern half of Japan. ⇒Tohoku has both the first and second conditions. Unless household head’s son find Japanese new bride, he tends to look for his bride with foreign nationality.

  13. New Immigration and Interprefectural Migration

  14. Application result of departure submodel

  15. Application result of destination choice submodel

  16. Conclusion • Major destinations: Nagoya metropolitan area, manufacturing stronghold (not Tokyo metropolitan area) • Highly mobile persons: Brazilian, graduates from university • Application result of nested logit model <departure sub-model> ethnicity, age, educational attainment, competition with new immigrants, co-ethnic attraction <destination choice sub-model> spatial separation, prefectural size, employment opportunity, co-ethnic attraction

  17. Implications of the findings Comparison of explanatory power of international marraige between new immigration and interprefectural migration: Role of international marriage in the former is larger than that in the latter. Comparison of migration pattern between foreigner and Japanese: Net inflow to Tokyo metropolitan area for Japanese is much larger than that for foreigner. ⇒Interprefectural migration by foreign residents has contributed to a reduction of “monopolar concentration in Tokyo”. ⇒”hollowization” of manufacturing employment opportunity may lead to an intensification of “monopolar concentration in Tokyo”.

More Related