Immigration policy: Framework and challenges

The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 765-779

  Roberts, Glenda S ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84917685886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004154773.i-1199.318     Document Type: Chapter

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