![]() Through interviews with both care facilities and migrants, this presentation argues that this counterintuitive outcome results from the interaction between policy framework and constant dialogue within the space of care where migrants are transforming the rigid Japanese organizational rules. The care facilities were initially worried and reluctant to employ migrants, but the acceptance turned out to be relatively smooth without any major conflicts or incidents. The presentation looks into the structural transformation of the care sector and the negotiation by the migrant care workers. The first wave of migrants came under the bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement between Southeast Asian Countries and Japan, followed by consecutive waves of deregulation of migration regimes. The care market has expanded rapidly, resulting in a chronic shortage of care workers and migrant workers started to work in the old age care sector in the past ten years. Japan’s care sector went through significant structural change in 2000 due to the Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI). Research has revealed that migrants are incorporated differently in the care sector according to the intersection of migration-care regime nexus. Monday, 13 December 2021, 11am-noon CET / 7pm-8pm JST via Zoom ![]() “When Local Meets Gobal: The Changing Face of Old-Age Care in Japan” You are cordially invited to join us for the upcoming event in the migration lecture series at LMU Japan Center: ![]()
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