Social Citizenship Guarantee for Minorities in Japan: Present and Future
Social Citizenship Guarantee for Minorities in Japan: Present and Future
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日本少数民族的社会公民保障:现在和未来
DOI:
10.1111/ijjs.12111
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
Hirano Hiroya
中科院分区:
文献类型:
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作者:
Shizume Masato;Kato Masatoshi;Matsuda Ryozo;村上慎司;森田次朗;Hirano Hiroya
In recent years, the presence of minorities and their ways of life have become the subject of public interest in Japan. These minorities have experienced misrecognition and denial of their rights, and have been forced to live without benefiting from social redistribution. However, the lack of acceptance of minorities or their ways of life by majorities is being challenged. These aspects of recognition and redistribution are matters of universal human dignity. They are indispensable when considering issues of security in the lives of minorities. To achieve this security it is necessary to consider social citizenship. It described the way we are treated in society. In this article I examine the current state of social citizenship for minorities in Japan. An analysis of the contents and characteristics of social policy and social security systems in which social citizenship is embodied suggests that social citizenship in Japan is still strongly based on traditional social standards. This traditional orientation constitutes an obstacle to guaranteeing social citizenship for minorities. Moreover, the more serious inherent problem is that neither the concept of citizenship nor that of rights has been adequately accepted by the people. Given these points, it is unsurprising that the majority perceives minorities as deviant, and this situation has made guarantees of social citizenship for minorities much more difficult. A full guarantee of social citizenship for minorities requires further efforts to be made in human rights education and citizenship education.