There were estimated to be 60,000 Peruvians in Japan as of 2003[update]. Roughly half are themselves descendants of earlier Japanese immigrants to Peru, while the rest are of other ethnicities.[2]
[edit] Migration history
In 1990, Japan introduced a new ethnicity-based immigration policy which aimed to encourage Japanese descendants overseas to come to Japan and fill the country's need for foreign workers.[3] From 1992 to 1997, data from Peru's Ministry of the Interior showed Japan as the fourteenth-most popular destination for Peruvian emigrants, behind the Netherlands and ahead of Costa Rica.[4]
- International Press (newspaper)
- IPC (television station)
[edit] References
- Aquino Rodríguez, Carlos (1999), "Migración internacional del trabajo: el caso de los peruanos en Japón", in Girado, Gustavo, 8va reunión del Grupo de Trabajo de Desarrollo de Discursos Humanos, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, http://www.asiayargentina.com/pdf/241-migracion.PDF
- Takenaka, Ayumi (2003), "Paradoxes of ethnicity-based migration: Peruvian and Japanese-Peruvian migrants in Japan", in Goodman, Roger, Global Japan: the experience of Japan's new immigrant and overseas communities, Routledge, ISBN 9780415297417
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