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Re-mobilizing immobilized labor: Pandemic concessions and migrant farmworkers in Japan

Yuya Iida & Itaru Nagasaka

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal2025https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968251348033article
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Drawing on fieldwork in a central Japan village in 2021 and 2022, this study examines how the Japanese government’s stringent border controls from 2020 disrupted the rotational international migration system in the agricultural sector and how the government, farmers and migrant agricultural workers responded to such disruption. Introducing the concept of “pandemic concessions” as exceptional bordering practices, it examines the government’s concessionary measures to the sector. While they helped farmers secure a workforce, they seldom mitigated the immobilities of migrant agricultural workers that had been prevalent before the pandemic, and the migrants’ contribution as essential workers for food production remains invisible.

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@article{yuya2025,
  title        = {{Re-mobilizing immobilized labor: Pandemic concessions and migrant farmworkers in Japan}},
  author       = {Yuya Iida & Itaru Nagasaka},
  journal      = {Asian and Pacific Migration Journal},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968251348033},
}

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0.37

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.16 × 0.4 = 0.06
M · momentum0.53 × 0.15 = 0.08
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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