{"title":"Seasonal Workers at White Asparagus Farms in Limburg, the Netherlands: Focusing on Recent Trends of Migrating Workers in Agriculture in the EU Context","authors":"IKESHOJI Norie","doi":"10.4157/geogrevjapanb.96.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4157/geogrevjapanb.96.25","url":null,"abstract":"Labour movement from East to West in the EU has been conspicuous since the enlargement of the EU in 2004, as one of the destinations in rural regions that have labour shortage problems. Research on migrating workers in the agricultural sector has accumulated over recent decades. However, there is not enough research about temporary workers in this sector in the region. Thus, this paper focuses on regional integration and issues related to the regional disparity from a case study of an agricultural sector that fulfils labour shortage by employing seasonal workers. Northern Limburg is the most prolific asparagus cultivating area due to the well-drained soil and warmer temperature. However, only a small number of farms engage solely in white asparagus production because it is challenging a temporary and intensive workforce for the short period needed for asparagus harvesting. All farmers that cooperated with interviews in this study employ seasonal workers with a supervisor system. The supervisor system works well for farm owners and seasonal workers with supervisor positions. However, the system has almost no advantage for seasonal workers without a supervisor position. Unless the wage gap between the West and the East disappears, hard work with low wages will probably persistently remain under capitalism. Therefore, researchers have to pay attention to the movement of temporary laborers who suffer the most uncertain working conditions.","PeriodicalId":35713,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Review of Japan","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136278271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"KLIEN, Susanne: <i>Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society</i>","authors":"YAMAGISHI Daijiro","doi":"10.4157/geogrevjapanb.96.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4157/geogrevjapanb.96.38","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35713,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Review of Japan","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136278270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Key Role of Producer Organizations and Intermediate Distributors in Thailand’s Mango Distribution System","authors":"ENDO Gen","doi":"10.4157/geogrevjapanb.96.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4157/geogrevjapanb.96.1","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to revisit the claim of the “supermarket revolution theory” that modern retail formats leverage commercial standards, such as Good Agricultural Practice (GAP), to govern the production and distribution of fresh produce in developing countries. Using mangoes for export in Thailand as a case study, an empirical analysis was conducted focusing on the actual situation of GAP certification in Thailand and the role of producer organizations in mango distribution. The results revealed that the GAP certification system has not been thoroughly implemented. Even small-scale farmers who are not GAP-certified avoid this problem by organizing, and producer organizations play an important role in intermediate distribution. Conversely, large retailers and exporters also rely on the intermediate distribution function of producer organizations to source mangoes. In other words, Thailand’s mango production and distribution system, rather than being a “preferred-supplier system” led by large retailers, has a complementary relationship between the suppliers and retailers.","PeriodicalId":35713,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Review of Japan","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136278269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selective effects of marriage migrations on the population redistribution in a hierarchical regional system of Japan.","authors":"H Kawabe, Liaw K-l","doi":"10.4157/grj1984b.67.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4157/grj1984b.67.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Based on the data on 11,470 household heads and spouses in a national survey [in Japan], this paper studies the selective effects of marriage migrations on five types of prefectures: (1) metropolitan core, (2) suburban, (3) regional growth pole, (4) peripheral non-kaso, and (5) peripheral kaso prefectures. The selective effects are examined in terms of five personal factors: sex, nativity, education, period of marriage, and sibling status.... Primary and onward migrations were much more important than return migrations so that marriage migrations increased the non-native's share of the population of every type of [prefecture]. Marriage migrations resulted in further deterioration of the quality of human capital in peripheral prefectures. The transition from high to moderate economic growth in the early 1970s was accompanied by sharp reversals in the net transfers of marriage migrants in metropolitan cores and regional growth poles in opposite directions.\" (SUMMARY IN JPN)</p>","PeriodicalId":35713,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Review of Japan","volume":"67 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22028735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The spatio-temporal dynamics of Japanese birth rates: empirical analyses using the expansion method.","authors":"K Tanaka, E Casetti","doi":"10.4157/grj1984b.65.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4157/grj1984b.65.15","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This paper investigates the spatio-temporal dynamics of Japan's birth rates in the post-World War II period. The results of our analyses suggest that the spatial manifestations of the tail end of the demographic transition in Japan have been influenced by cyclical fluctuations, with a boom which produced a reversal of the traditional rural-urban birth rate differentials. Our analyses implement the research philosophy and the techniques of... Expansion Methodology.\" (SUMMARY IN JPN)</p>","PeriodicalId":35713,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Review of Japan","volume":"65 1","pages":"15-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial patterns of exogenous mortality in Kuwait.","authors":"M M Aziz","doi":"10.4157/grj1984b.63.188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4157/grj1984b.63.188","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Exogenous causes [of death]...represent a serious threat to health in Kuwait, where they accounted for over 40 percent of the total mortality in 1985. This paper is concerned with the spatial distribution of these diseases. It will also help to reflect the influence of various social, economic, and demographic factors on the patterns of distribution. Mortality rates are calculated for 100,000 persons of the country's two communities: Kuwaitis and non-Kuwaitis.... In some parts of the country, and the Capital governorate in particular, nearly half of the deaths were caused by parasitic diseases. Other major causes are tuberculosis and intestinal infections.... Death tolls among Kuwaiti nationals are more than twice those of non-Kuwaitis.\" (SUMMARY IN JPN)</p>","PeriodicalId":35713,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Review of Japan","volume":"63 2","pages":"188-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22027512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}