Perceived discrimination in ancestral homeland: Filipino nikkeijins and the dynamics of migrant resistance

• Main Author: Vilog, Ron Bridget
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: Foreign workers, Filipino-Japanese—Japan; Immigrants—Japan; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social Psychology and Interaction; Sociology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/13308
• Institution: De La Salle University

The Immigration Control Act of 1990 formally allowed the nikkeijins or descendants of Japanese nationals who were born in foreign countries to enter Japan and work without restriction. Following the rapid migration of Latin American nikkeis, thousands of Filipino nikkeijins had taken advantage of th...