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Regulatory approaches to managing skilled migration: Indonesian nurses in Japan

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  • Michele Ford

    (The University of Sydney, Australia)

  • Kumiko Kawashima

    (Macquarie University, Australia)

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This article examines the Japan–Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement, an agreement that has allowed Japan to supplement its local healthcare workforce while continuing to sidestep the thorny issue of labour and immigration policy reform and Indonesia to increase its skilled workers’ access to the Japanese labour market at a time when it was making a concerted effort to reorient migrant labour flows away from informal sector occupations. Despite the programme’s many problems, it has contributed to the use of trade agreements as a mechanism for regulating labour migration, and so to the normalisation of migrant labour as a tradable commodity rather than a discrete area of policy-making, with all the attendant risks that normalisation brings.

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  • Michele Ford & Kumiko Kawashima, 2016. "Regulatory approaches to managing skilled migration: Indonesian nurses in Japan," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 27(2), pages 231-247, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecolab:v:27:y:2016:i:2:p:231-247
    DOI: 10.1177/1035304616629580
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    Keywords

    Care work; Indonesia; Japan; labour migration; trade agreements;
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    JEL classification:

    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • M55 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Contracting Devices

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