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Destination Choice of the 1995–2000 Immigrants to Japan: Salient Features and Multivariate Explanation

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  • Kao-Lee Liaw

    (School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada)

  • Yoshitaka Ishikawa

    (Department of Geography, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Yoshida-honmachi, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify the salient features of the destination choices made by new immigrants who entered Japan in the 1995–2000 period, and to provide a multivariate explanation for their choice behaviors. The salient features can be summarized as follows; first, destination-choice patterns differed markedly by ethnicity; second, the higher the educational qualification of the immigrants, the greater the attraction of the Tokyo prefecture and the less dispersed the destination-choice pattern; and third, among female immigrants, those with the household status of daughter in law were more prone to go to the Tohoku region, where the maintenance of the traditional stem-family system was a serious concern. Our multivariate analysis has revealed that the destination choices made by the new immigrants were indeed subject to the selective effects of labor-market conditions, the distributions of coethnics, and the spatial patterns of marital opportunities in theoretically meaningful ways, and that labor-market conditions were most important, whereas marital opportunities were least important.

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  • Kao-Lee Liaw & Yoshitaka Ishikawa, 2008. "Destination Choice of the 1995–2000 Immigrants to Japan: Salient Features and Multivariate Explanation," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 40(4), pages 806-830, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:40:y:2008:i:4:p:806-830
    DOI: 10.1068/a39187
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    1. Hiromi Mori, 1997. "Immigration Policy and Foreign Workers in Japan," Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-0-230-37452-2, December.
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