Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies

Aeneas Zi Wang is an Associate Professor at the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Nanjing University, China.Aimi Muranaka is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.Florian Coulmas is a Senior Professor at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

• 1. Attractive immigrants or attractive for immigrants? Two ageing societies and migration, Aeneas Zi Wang 2. Immigration-related language policy in Germany, Christoph Schroeder 3. Multi-language service as omotenashi and tatemae: Japanese local governments’ challenges and limitations, Yoshiyuki Asahi 4. Does easy language promote integration? Japanese and German perspectives, Goro Christoph Kimura 5. The gravitation of “authentic” arts: Field-specific logics of visual art and music students’ mobility, Takuma Fujii 6. The myth of Vietnamese IT and engineering professionals being “shin-nichi”? Their short-term participation in the Japanese labour market, Aimi Muranaka 7. Spurwechsel in German migration policy, Christian Joppke 8. Promised (Deutsch)land? West Germany’s attractiveness as a migration destination for the Greeks in the 1960s, Maria Adamopoulou 9. Changes and continuity in Japan’s deportation regime, Toake Endoh 10. Japan’s Technical Intern Training Programme as transnational total institution: Between exploitation and functionality, David Chiavacci 11. Coming to terms with a changing reality, Florian Coulmas