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Although many East Asian countries have been the source countries of many international migrant workers, the history of introducing foreign workers is relatively recent and short. For example, in Japan, it has been only in the last 25–30 years that remarks have been made about the supposed and various social problems stemming from foreign workers. On the other hand, as international migration has a comparatively longer history in the United States and Europe, it is necessary to review the historical facts that pertain to Western human mobility, as possible precedents. Especially, as the subjects of future research, the economic effects of international immigration are quite important and worthy of study in the context of East Asian countries (including Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan). In this chapter, we briefly review the historical development of international migration in the United States and Europe, as well as worldwide.
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2013 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics n.d.
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Briks and Sinclair (1980)
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Ogawa (2011) discussed the development of immigration policies in postwar Japan by taking into consideration the long-term transformations of Japanese society including population aging.
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Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan (2015)
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Status of Foreigners, Statistics Korea
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Kondoh, K. (2017). Introduction and Summary. In: The Economics of International Immigration. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 27. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0092-8_1
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