Population Aging and International Health-Caregiver Migration to Japan

Gabriele Vogt, Cham: Springer, 2018.

This book introduces Japan’s current policy initiatives directed at eldercare and international labor migration, and, wherever appropriate,it adds a comparative perspective from Germany. The book shows how eldercare is currently being organized and discusses integration policies for foreigners. It studies the policy-making process behind the system, and contextualizes the migration avenue within the strong roots of Japan’s eldercare in local communities and the non-preparedness of the nation to grant local citizenship to international newcomers. Through applying an approach of multi-level policy making, putting a strong focus on the local level and introducing new approaches, this book is of interest to policy makers and scholars in aging, migration, health care, and contemporary Japan.

http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319680118 

Table of contents:
1) Introduction: Population Aging, Health-Caregiving to the Elderly, and International Labor Migration to Japan
2) Health-Caregiving to the Elderly in Japan: Professionalized Labor, Community-Based Approaches, and International Migration
3) International Health-Caregiver Migration to Japan and Germany: Policies Designed to Fail
4) International Migration to Japan: Political and Societal Responses to the Challenge of Integration
5) Outlook: International Health-Caregiver Migration to Japan