Resumen

MENDEZ VAZQUEZ, Marcela. Coexistencia multicultural a nivel local: oenegés migrantes e integración de los nikkeijin en el este de Japón. Méx.cuenca pac [online]. 2013, vol.2, n.5, pp.71-104. ISSN 2007-5308.

Since the 1990s, Japan has received immigrant workers of Japanese ancestry (nikkeijin) that now reside together with nationals and other ethnics groups. To cope with the impact of their demands, local governments have been implementing measures called “multicultural coexistence”. Based upon long term fieldwork (2007-2008), this paper addresses two tasks: firstly, compares how nikkeijin living in Kanto and Tokai redefined themselves as agents interacting with the local autonomies and organizations, seeking integration and finding citizenship al the local level within the multicultural coexistence guidelines.

Secondly, it holds that the analysis of policies towards foreigners in Japan must account for the local and the regional, besides taking into account gender and history, risking misconstructions of not doing so.

Palabras llave : nikkeijin; tabunka kyôsei; multicultural coexistence; citizenship; gender.