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This chapter offers a critical perspective on ‘human security’ in Japan by contrasting the meaning of the term as written in the country’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) reports with that applied in discourses on, and practices towards, migrant workers. The aim is to show how the ‘human being’ as a referent of security – promoted under concern for ‘distant others’ reachable through ODA policy – has been displaced when ‘distant Others’ arrive on Japan’s soil as migrant workers. The human dimension of security is indeed overwritten by ‘public security’ concerns.
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Harada, T., Kimura, K. (2011). Human or Public: The Referents of Security in Discourses on Migrants in Japan. In: Truong, TD., Gasper, D. (eds) Transnational Migration and Human Security. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12757-1_17
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