From criminality to inclusion? Law and media framing of migrants in 1987–1990 and 2016–2019 Japan.
Immigration law and policies shape public understanding of immigrants by categorizing the population into dichotomies of 'illegal' or 'legal,' and 'skilled' or 'unskilled.' Within such processes, scholars emphasize the importance of media which diffuses policy rhetoric, and thus set the tone of publ...
| Published in: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 51; no. 7; pp. 1746 - 1770 |
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Apr2025
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