Foreign Workers and Law Enforcement in Japan by Herbert Wolfgang;

Author:Herbert, Wolfgang;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2010-09-07T00:00:00+00:00

7.3 Attempts to Explain the Criminality of Foreigners in Japan

If one searches for theoretical reflections in the literature dealing with labour migration and the criminality of foreigners in Japan, one can hardly find a consistent and detailed theory of immigrant criminality. There are some attempts to ‘explain’ crimes by foreigners, but these ‘explanations’ are merely asides or annotations. Usually the authors point to the position of foreign workers in society, their Lebenswelt and living conditions. They often link their claims, according to their point of view, with political demands for restriction and control of immigration, expulsion of ‘illegals’, amendment of their legal status or legal redress, and so forth. I seek to bring order to the presented concepts and ‘explanations’ by grouping them according to their implicit theories of crime.

Culture conflict is mentioned very often, but is not analyzed theoretically; rather it is regarded with apprehension and alarm, for example, in the editorial of the Yomiuri shinbun 10 August 1990:

Foreign workers are not only people who produce things or give services. They live in Japanese society, are human beings who come into contact with Japanese and the Japanese culture. When people with different cultures, languages and customs live together in the same society, troubles [momegoto] will occur. Sometimes this generates crimes. How to face these social frictions [masatsu] is one of the big questions concerning the problem of foreign labour.

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