Abstract
This study asks how the governmental promotion of urban-to-rural internal migration in Japan and South Korea has impacted on agricultural labor shortage and rural communities in the two countries. For decades, the Western developed countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom have introduced international immigrants to secure their workforces in agricultural sector and it has promoted bipolarization of farmers to farmland operators and their employees. Japan and South Korea, on the other hand, have promoted internal migration from urban areas to rural ones while accepting foreign workers with limited terms. The analysis based on literature review and interview by the author points out that, though Japan and South Korea have chosen different policy approach from the West in terms of securing workforces in agriculture, agricultural labor shortage occurs and the differentiation among farmers have also been proceeded in the two Asian countries.
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Akio Nawakura, National Federation of Depopulated Municipalities in Japan, Japan
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Conference: ACSS2024
Stream: Politics
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Nawakura A. (2024) The Impact of Internal Urban-to-Rural Migration and Its Limits: A Case Study on Japan and South Korea ISSN: 2186-2303 – The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 49-61) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-2303.2024.5
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-2303.2024.5
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