Dear All,

I am delighted to announce the publication of my book, Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies, by Cambridge University Press. Based on interviews, focus groups, and archival research conducted in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, this book examines how the civic legacies of past struggles for democracy shape current movements for immigrant rights and recognition.

I have included the abstract and table of contents below. The book is available at Cambridge (enter code IIEAD2020 for a 20% discount) and Amazon. The associated focus group transcripts and English-language translations can be accessed at the Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies (IIEAD) Project dataverse page.

I would greatly appreciate your support in sharing this announcement with your colleagues, students, and friends. (Apologies for cross-postings.)

With warm wishes during these challenging times,

Erin

Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies
Erin Aeran Chung

Despite labour shortages and rapidly shrinking working-age populations, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan shared restrictive immigration policies and exclusionary practices toward immigrants until the early 2000s. While Taiwan maintained this trajectory, Japan took incremental steps to expand immigrant services at the grassroots level, and South Korea enacted sweeping immigration reforms. How did convergent policies generate these divergent patterns of immigrant incorporation? Departing from the dominant scholarship that focuses on culture, domestic political elites, and international norms, this book shows the important role of civil society actors--including immigrants themselves--in giving voice to immigrant interests, mobilizing immigrant actors, and shaping public debate and policy on immigration. Based on more than 150 in-depth interviews and focus groups with over 20 immigrant communities, Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies examines how the civic legacies of past struggles for democracy shape current movements for immigrant rights and recognition.

Table of Contents
Introduction: Is There an East Asian Model of Immigrant Incorporation?
1. How Civic Legacies Shape Immigration Politics
2. Constructing Developmental Citizens in East Asia
3. Civic Legacies and Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies
4. 'I Can't Be Tanaka': Understanding Immigrant Incorporation through Migrant Voices
5. Marriage and Migration
6. Multiculturalism with Adjectives
Epilogue


Erin Aeran Chung
Associate Professor
Charles D. Miller Chair in East Asian Politics
Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
http://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/erin-aeran-chung/

Co-Editor, Politics and Society in East Asia Elements Series, Cambridge University Press

New from Cambridge University Press:
Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies