TY - JOUR
AU - Shipper, Apichai
AB -  and opinion leaders' (sic; p. 174). Note, then, that these are labels applied to returnees by non-returnees. Some returnees might accept them, especially `shinjapa' since it is laudatory, but it is hardly likely that they would willingly accept `nonjapa' or `hanjapa' as their own identity label. While useful as labels for returnees by others, they should not be mistaken as returnees' own identity labels. Since Goodman's work is a major contribution to the English-language study of returnees, it is quite understandable that Pang seriously examines Goodman's conclusions, especially his argument that the high status of returnees' parents is considered the decisive factor in negotiating special educational provisions for the returnees. While recognizing `the high status of the parents as the reason for the acceptance of a specific returnee identity and special treatment' (p. 176), Pang asks: `why did the issue arise at all and fought out (sic) in public arena? As members of a privileged group, why do they continue to justify the shifting notion of the (sic) own specific identity?' (ibid). Pang finds answers to these questions in the concept of marginality. In the Japanese triptych of `insider/marginal/outsider', those who consider returnees to be socially and culturally 
TI - Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan, by Hiroshi Komai. Trans. Jens Wilkinson. Melbourne: Pacific Press, 2001, xiv + 230 pp., $29.95 (paperback ISBN 1‐876843‐06‐3)
JF - Social Science Japan Journal
DO - 10.1093/ssjj/6.1.132
DA - 2003-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/foreign-migrants-in-contemporary-japan-by-hiroshi-komai-trans-jens-7nq27thufH
SP - 132
EP - 135
VL - 6
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -