INTD 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: The Japan Times, Invisibility, Unaccompanied Minors
25 Apr 2019
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Lecture 16 politics of deservingness: human rights of undocumented children: A japan-born undocumented thai chid whose parents had overstayed their visas in japan. Rightlessness = highly precarious lives of non-status migrant children in japan. Punitive immigration laws produce rightlessness of non-status children. Invisibility of non-status children (outcomes = lack of access to legal protection, high precarity) Politics of deservingness perpetuated by the state and the media (questioning cultural deservingness of non-status children = normalization of rightlessness) There appears to have been an increase in the number of people who are abusing the refugee status process, said yasuhiro hishida, an official who reviews applications at the justice ministry (the japan. Invisible presence of unregistered local-born migrant children (whose parents have overstayed their visas: recent surge of asylum-seekers including children (homogeneously categorized as illegal migrants ) *japan"s minimal acceptance of refugees. Bureau in order to seek legalization (utinan enrolled in school at the age of 13)
