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SUMMARY:Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Gabriele Vogt: "Reform Initiatives in Health-Care Migration to Japan: A Discussion of Their Political Dimensions"
DESCRIPTION:For several decades now\, the health care sector in Japan has been experiencing a severe labor shortage. The gap between a growing demand for health care services and a shrinking pool of domestic workers continues to widen. The introduction of a migration avenue for international health workers to Japan in the mid-2000s is generally understood to be the result of the ever-mounting strains\, which the rapid population aging put on the labor market. As this was the first explicit opening of the domestic labor market to a workforce that so far has not been categorized as “skilled workers”\, it is fair to conclude that this reform constitutes a paradigm shift in Japan’s migration policy. \nIn this presentation\, I will sketch out Japan’s demographic development\, and its implications on the health care sector in more depth. I will focus on health workers in elderly care\, as they are a group that is particularly high in demand on the Japanese labor market. Subsequently\, I will introduce the original migration avenue for health workers\, which opened in 2008\, and\, despite the several revisions it has seen ever since\, fails to draw a sufficient number of international health workers to Japan. Consequently\, over the past years\, migration flows of health workers to Japan have diversified. These more recent migration avenues include initiatives by business actors\, such as utilizing the system of intracompany transfer and also educational institutions recruiting international students. In addition\, policy reforms\, such as opening the international trainee system to health workers\, and the introduction of a specified skilled workers program contributed to the diversification of migration avenues to Japan. I will conclude with a contextualization and evaluation of the various migration avenues that are currently available to international health workers aiming for Japan as their destination. \nGabriele Vogt holds the Chair in Japanese Studies and serves as Director to the Department of Asian Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. Her research covers the areas of political economy in the context of demographic transition and international labor migration\, as well as local politics and social movements. She has published widely on Japan’s demographic change ever since serving as a co-editor (with Florian Coulmas\, Harald Conrad and Annette Schad-Seifert) to the volume The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan (Brill\, 2008). She is the author of Population Aging and International Health-Caregiver Migration to Japan (Springer\, 2018). Some recent journal publications include: “The Aging Democracy: Demographic Effects\, Political Legitimacy\, and the Quest for Generational Pluralism.” In: Perspectives on Politics (2023\, with Yosuke Buchmeier)\, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592723000981 (open access); “Sanitizing the national body: COVID-19 and the revival of Japan’s ‘Closed Country’ strategy.” In: Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (2022\, with Sian Qin)\, https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968221125482 (open access); “Robotic devices and ICT in long-term care in Japan: Their potential and limitations from a workplace perspective.” In: Contemporary Japan (2021\, with Anne-Sophie L. König)\, https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2021.2015846 (open access). \nThis presentation is based on: Vogt\, Gabriele and Sian Qin (forthcoming): International health workers. In: Takahashi\, Shin and Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi (eds.): The Handbook of Global Migration and Japan. London: Sage. \nLocation: LMU Japan-Center\, Oettingenstraße 67\, Room L155
URL:https://www.blog.japan.uni-muenchen.de/event/vortrag-von-prof-dr-gabriele-vogt-reform-initiatives-in-health-care-migration-to-japan-a-discussion-of-their-political-dimensions/
LOCATION:https://www.lmu.de/raumfinder/#/building/bw7070/map?room=707801155_
CATEGORIES:Allgemein,Vortrag
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SUMMARY:Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Helene Tenzer: "From Professional Aspirations to Identity Confirmation and Transformation: The Case of Japanese Career Women Working for Foreign Subsidiaries in Japan"
DESCRIPTION:This study investigates what attracts career-oriented women to foreign subsidiaries and how they experience this work context. Based on 125 interviews with career-oriented women in Japan\, we find that their frequent choice of foreign employers is not only motivated by professional aspirations but also by identity-related aspirations. Japanese women who embraced an internationalist orientation experience a confirmation of their identity by working for foreign subsidiaries; by contrast\, those who still felt bound by traditional role expectations\, undergo a liberating identity transformation. \nBased on the perceptions of these particular employees\, we develop recommendations for gender diversity management in foreign subsidiaries. We further argue that women\, who are disadvantaged in the local employment context\, often desire that foreign subsidiaries implement standardized home country human resource management practices\, instead of adopting local practices. By focusing on the recruitment of highly qualified women\, foreign subsidiaries may turn their liability of foreignness into a competitive advantage. \nSince April 2022\, Helene Tenzer has been a Professor of International Management at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 2014 to 2022\, she served as an Academic Councillor at the Chair of International Business at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. In 2016\, she earned her Habilitation in Business Administration\, specializing in International Management. Between 2009 and 2014\, she worked as a research associate at the Chair of International Business at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. She completed her Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) in Intercultural Communication at the University of Passau in 2009. Helene Tenzer holds a Diplom in Languages\, Economics\, and Cultural Studies from the University of Passau\, which she obtained in 2006. \nThe event will take place in hybrid form \nLocation: LMU Japan-Center\, Oettingenstraße 67\, Room L155 \nParticipation in the lecture on the Zoom meeting (no registration required): \nhttps://lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/j/65637273260?pwd=RlQJ6Ltfz76RVIOVVUGb3yqlmY4w3Q.1 \nMeeting-ID: 656 3727 3260 \nKenncode: 914891
URL:https://www.blog.japan.uni-muenchen.de/event/vortrag-von-prof-dr-helene-tenzer-from-professional-aspirations-to-identity-confirmation-and-transformation-the-case-of-japanese-career-women-working-for-foreign-subsidiaries-in-japan/
LOCATION:https://www.lmu.de/raumfinder/#/building/bw7070/map?room=707801155_
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