The ‘new’ foreigners and the social reconstruction of difference: the cultural diversification of Japanese educationFootnote1

An earlier version of this paper, ‘The newcomers in the Japanese classrooms: the “internal internationalization” of Japan’, was presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, session on ‘Diversity and the experience of minorities and foreigners in Japanese schools: towards a multicultural framework’, Chicago, IL, March 2001.

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