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The study aims to explore Japan's contradictory stance on immigration and its impact on national identity.

Fashioning homogeneity: ambivalent nationalisms and decoupling strategies in Japan’s discourse of (no) immigration

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Examines Japan's dichotomy between expanding migration frameworks and a no-immigration narrative, indicating potential exclusionary practices.

The study aims to explore Japan's contradictory stance on immigration and its impact on national identity.
Thematic content analysis of National Diet minutes from 2015 to 2024.
Identification of four discursive strategies related to migration and nationhood.
Japan's migration policies are increasingly expansive yet conflict with a narrative denying immigration.
Four discursive strategies were identified: obfuscation, externalisation, compartmentalisation, and provisionality.
The decoupling serves to delegitimize migrants' claims to belonging.

Ryoko Yamamoto (2026) studied this question.

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Examines Japan's dichotomy between expanding migration frameworks and a no-immigration narrative, indicating potential exclusionary practices.