Tokyo Olympic Games and Removal of Migrants
Tokyo Olympic Games and Removal of Migrants
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东京奥运会与移民驱逐
DOI:
10.1080/18692729.2023.2168838
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发表时间:
2023
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通讯作者:
Toake Endoh
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Okamura;Lila;上野達弘;林嶺那・深谷健・箕輪允智・中嶋茂雄・梶原静香;毎熊浩一;小野 一;上野達弘;松尾隆佑;嶋田暁文;上野達弘;嶋田暁文;小野 一;上野達弘;小野 一;金井利之;上野達弘;岡村 りら;Takayuki Sakamoto;金井利之;小野 一;礒崎敦仁;Reona Hayashi;Takayuki Sakamoto;礒崎敦仁;上野 達弘;溝口修平;Toake Endoh
By law, migrants, including asylum seekers, whose stay or activity in Japan is unauthorized, are subject to deportation. Refusal to leave may result in indefinite detention under an unforgiving rule of mandatory detention. Since the 1990s, the immigration authority (within the Ministry of Justice) has deported more than a million it found “unfavorable to the nation” and detains over a thousand per year in its 17 facilities.(To prevent the spread of COVID-19, a significant number have been released temporarily.) The immigration authority has been flexing its restrictive muscles as the nation opens its borders and the number of “law breakers” increases. Tokyo’s winning bid in 2013 to host the 2020 Olympic/Paralympic Games only encouraged the nation’s gatekeeper toward more restriction.In 2016, the head of the Immigration Control Bureau (IB, today’s Immigration Services Agency) of the Ministry of Justice issued an internal order to “actively and effectively remove foreigners, like ‘illegal stayers,’who give anxiety to Japan.” The bureaucracy hardened its policy on detention without temporary release in 2018. The number of deportees rose, from 10,676 in 2014 to 13,361 in 2016, and to 19,389 in 2019, as did the number of detainees and the proportion of longer-term ones (six months or more) over the same period. Toughened enforcement may have compounded strains already present in the system since the 1990s, including the refoulement of refugees, family separations, tensions between detainees and detention staff, detainee protests, detainee deaths, and lawsuits against the immigration authority.