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Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Table; Chapter 1: Introduction; Views onßMigration andßIts Limits; The 'Privileged' Migrants; Super-Diversification andßDeconstructing theßImage ofß'Privileged' Migrants; Persisting Dyads andßLimitations ofßDeconstructing Attempts; Privileged Migrations andßtheßWest; The Case: Contemporary European Migration toßJapan; Migration toßJapan andßEuropeans inßJapan; Europe, Japan, andßWhite Migrations; Outline ofßtheßBook; Data andßMethod; Notes; Bibliography; Part I: Migration.
Chapter 2: European Migration toßJapan: Historical Roots andßRecent Development Globalization, Migration, andßJapan; European Presence inßJapan: AßHistorical Perspective; The Meiji Period andßtheßEarly Twentieth Century-Oyatoi Gaikokujin andßOthers; Newcomers: Growth Since theß1980s andßtheßSituation Today; From theßOyatoi toßtheß1980s; Growth since theß1990s; Changes inßtheßMajor Visa Categories andßNational Composition; Regional Differences; Typology ofßMigration Patterns fromßEurope toßJapan; Summary; Notes; Bibliography.
Chapter 3: Between Entertainers andßHigh-Skilled Elites: Skills, Study, andßMarriage Prologue: FromßtheßIron Curtain toßaßMobility Culture; 'Unsearchable Ways ofßtheßGod'4; Intermezzo: FromßanßExile toßJapan; Choosing aßLifestyle, Choosing theßDestination; Different Migrations andßMotivations; Complexity ofßMigration Flows: TheßCase ofßInternational Marriages; Globalization ofßEducation andßStudent Mobility; Professionals andß'Professionals': Japan asßnot theßBest Opportunity?; From 'Japonism' toß'Cool Japan': Interest inßJapan andßMigration; Making Sense ofßMigration andßMotivations.
Propensities, Individualization andßDifferentiation Eventuality ofßMigration: Individualized Migration, Class, andßContingencies; Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: Integration and Privilege; Chapter 4: Race andßPrivilege inßIntegration: Occupations, White Privilege, andßGender; Integration andßWhite Privilege; White Privilege andßGlobal Migration; The Positive Side ofßWhiteness: Theß'Small Benefits' ofßEveryday Life; More than 'Small Benefits': White Europeans inßtheßLabor Market; English Language asßaß(Re)invented Skill; English andßHigher Education.
Other 'Skills ofßWhiteness' inßtheßLabor Market Gender andßWhiteness; White Masculinities: Hegemony andßanßObject ofßFetish; White Women inßJapan; Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: White Privilege Revised: White Man's 'Burden' inßJapan; Europeans asß'Others': Whiteness, Temporality, andß'Skills'; Stranger: AßWelcomed Guest; Everyday Differentiation andßDiscrimination; Race, Culture, andßtheßLabor Market; Struggling High-Skilled Workers: Undesired Knowledge?; Occupational Niches: Culture Service Workers; Working Conditions andßJob Instability.
Chapter 2: European Migration toßJapan: Historical Roots andßRecent Development Globalization, Migration, andßJapan; European Presence inßJapan: AßHistorical Perspective; The Meiji Period andßtheßEarly Twentieth Century-Oyatoi Gaikokujin andßOthers; Newcomers: Growth Since theß1980s andßtheßSituation Today; From theßOyatoi toßtheß1980s; Growth since theß1990s; Changes inßtheßMajor Visa Categories andßNational Composition; Regional Differences; Typology ofßMigration Patterns fromßEurope toßJapan; Summary; Notes; Bibliography.
Chapter 3: Between Entertainers andßHigh-Skilled Elites: Skills, Study, andßMarriage Prologue: FromßtheßIron Curtain toßaßMobility Culture; 'Unsearchable Ways ofßtheßGod'4; Intermezzo: FromßanßExile toßJapan; Choosing aßLifestyle, Choosing theßDestination; Different Migrations andßMotivations; Complexity ofßMigration Flows: TheßCase ofßInternational Marriages; Globalization ofßEducation andßStudent Mobility; Professionals andß'Professionals': Japan asßnot theßBest Opportunity?; From 'Japonism' toß'Cool Japan': Interest inßJapan andßMigration; Making Sense ofßMigration andßMotivations.
Propensities, Individualization andßDifferentiation Eventuality ofßMigration: Individualized Migration, Class, andßContingencies; Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: Integration and Privilege; Chapter 4: Race andßPrivilege inßIntegration: Occupations, White Privilege, andßGender; Integration andßWhite Privilege; White Privilege andßGlobal Migration; The Positive Side ofßWhiteness: Theß'Small Benefits' ofßEveryday Life; More than 'Small Benefits': White Europeans inßtheßLabor Market; English Language asßaß(Re)invented Skill; English andßHigher Education.
Other 'Skills ofßWhiteness' inßtheßLabor Market Gender andßWhiteness; White Masculinities: Hegemony andßanßObject ofßFetish; White Women inßJapan; Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: White Privilege Revised: White Man's 'Burden' inßJapan; Europeans asß'Others': Whiteness, Temporality, andß'Skills'; Stranger: AßWelcomed Guest; Everyday Differentiation andßDiscrimination; Race, Culture, andßtheßLabor Market; Struggling High-Skilled Workers: Undesired Knowledge?; Occupational Niches: Culture Service Workers; Working Conditions andßJob Instability.