A Sociological Study on the Entry and Settlement of Foreign Workers in the Japanese Labour Market

通过对日本劳动力市场中外国本地工人进入和定居的特定行业的长期历史分析，我们可以阐明他们通过何种社会学机制将自己组织成种族聚集的地位群体，并集体占据适合他们的劳动力市场某些部分的特殊职位。另一方面，通过对输出国的实地调查，我们发现输出国与日本之间建立的移民中介制度对移民的入境和定居过程产生了很大的影响。非常矛盾的是，全球劳动力市场的移徙模式是由区域管理的。在理论研究方面，可以肯定结构化理论与新韦伯地位群体理论的结合在国际劳动力迁移研究中将具有广阔的应用前景。

Through the industry specific long-run historical analysis of the entry and settlement of foreign native workers in Japanese labour market, we could elucidate the sociological mechanism through which they organize themselves as ethnically clustered status groups and collectively occupy special positions in certain segments of the labour market suitable for them. By our field survey in the sending countries, on the other hand, we could find that the migration broker system established between sending countries and Japan has a strong impact on the process of entry and settlement. It is very paradoxical that the pattern of the migration in the global labour market is regionally managed. Regarding to the theoretical studies, we could make sure that the collaboration of structuration theory and neo-weberian status group theory would be quite promising in the study of international labour migration.