Abstract
With an uncertain welcome and dubious future, immigrant youth in Japan struggle to make sense out of an educational system and social structure never intended to attend to their needs. Having never provided an equitable and adequate education to its long-standing minority populations, whether they be the historically “under caste” Burakumin, the Zainichi of Korean descent, or the indigenous Ainu, Japanese schools have continued to fail to acknowledge differences and to treat all children as if they were born and raised in Japan, speaking Japanese (Ikeda, 1987; Okano & Tsuchiya, 1999).
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Gordon, J.A. (2015). Stand by Me. In: Bastien, S., Holmarsdottir, H.B. (eds) Youth ‘At the Margins’. New Research – New Voices. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-052-9_14
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