2019 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 131-164
This special issue aims to examine the transnational dynamics accompanying international migration into/from non-Western countries. The concept of civil society has been applied to diverse regional contexts. However, past discussion has not paid enough attention to the transnationality generated in and among these non-Western civil societies as an effect of migration. This special issue takes up the following three missions: 1) clarifying the associational lives of non-Western migrants; 2) examining migration’s impact on the civil society in non-Western societies; and 3) elucidating the relationships between migrants' civil society and the state. To address each of these urgent questions, four papers are presented, focusing upon civil society among Japanese natives vis-à-vis immigrants (Visočnic), a Tanzanian traders' association (Ogawa), and Nepali associations for emigrants (Tanaka and Uesugi), respectively.
