Creating Social Cohesion in an Interdependent World

1. Front Matter

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2. Part I

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Social Cohesion and the Challenge of Globalization

      • Ernest Healy, Dharma Arunachalam, Tetsuo Mizukami

      Pages 3-31

   3. Japan’s Social Cohesion in Relation to Immigration Issues

      • Tetsuo Mizukami

      Pages 33-46

   4. Australian Multiculturalism—“Natural Transition” or Social Coercion?

      • Ernest Healy

      Pages 47-80

   5. Contemporary Australian Attitudes to Immigration

      • Andrew Markus

      Pages 81-93

   6. Immigration Challenges in Japan: How Has Japanese Society Coped With Immigration?

      • Hirohisa Takenoshita

      Pages 95-112

3. Part II

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Why Half the Municipal Governments Disappear Under a National Mergers Policy? Changing Local Bases in “Globalizing” Japan

      • Takashi Machimura

      Pages 115-126

   3. “Diasporic” Muslims, “Minoritarian” Islam, and Modern Democratic Citizenship: Negotiating Accommodation and Integration

      • Clive S. Kessler

      Pages 127-144

   4. Volunteering and Civic Participation in the Vietnamese-Australian Community

      • RoseAnne Misajon, Vicki Hutton, Ana-Maria Bliuc

      Pages 145-159

   5. Intermarriage, Language Use, and Integration of Migrants

      • Dharma Arunachalam, Maria Karidakis

      Pages 161-174

   6. Intermarriage and Japanese Identity

      • Shuko Takeshita

      Pages 175-187

4. Part III

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Internationalization of Higher Education as a Response to Globalization: Japan’s Policy Challenges since the 1980s

      • Yukako Yonezawa, Akiyoshi Yonezawa

      Pages 191-204

   3. Higher Education and Social Cohesion: Universities, Citizenship, and Spaces of Orientation

      • Miriam Faine, Sue Plowright, Terri Seddon

      Pages 205-219

   4. Individual Labor-Related Dispute Mechanisms in Japan—Policy Intention and Individual Worker Aspirations

      • Nobuko Hosogaya

      Pages 221-241

   5. The Youth Labor Market in Japan

      • Nobuaki Fujioka

      Pages 243-261

   6. Globalization, Immigration Policy, and Youth Employment in Australia

      • Bob Birrell, Ernest Healy

      Pages 263-280

5. Back Matter

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Creating Social Cohesion in an Interdependent World examines the ways in which two very different societies, Australia and Japan, have dealt with challenges to their cultural and institutional fabric, as well as the social cohesion arising from the acceleration of global interdependence during recent decades. Deepening globalization has generated great social dislocation and uncertainty about collective identity and to anxiety about how to accommodate apparently unstoppable external influences. The studies in this volume explore areas which have experienced significant impact from globalization, including immigration policy, ethnic and racial intermarriage, attitudes towards ethnic and racial minorities, national and cultural identity, education policy and labor relations. The approach used is innovative in juxtaposing two societies which, although developed, are contrasting in their historical origins and contemporary cultural legacies.

• GLOBALISATION
• IDENTITY
• SOCIAL COHESION
• MULTICULTURALISM
• IMMIGRATION
• community
• education
• globalization
• identity
• immigration
• Institution
• Integration
• interdependence
• labor market
• migration
• migration policy
• Nation
• participation
• society

Ernest Healy is Research Affiliate with the School of Social Science at Monash University, Australia.
 
Dharma Arunachalam is Associate Professor of Sociology with the School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia.
 
Tetsuo Mizukami is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Rikkyo Institute for Global Urban Studies at Rikkyo University, Japan.

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