Foreign-born children who grew up in Japan but lack residency status are being denied access to higher education, despite speaking fluent Japanese and completing compulsory schooling in the country.
These children, who arrived in Japan with their parents, are now on “provisional release” from immigration detention after losing their legal status.
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16269759
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Children should be given fair chance for their future.
If they are really concerned with the integration of ‘new foreigners’, they should make visa for those who were bred in Japan. They went to school in Japan, and they speak fluent Japanese. Couldn’t be better immigrants
Lucky mine are born in Japan.
I even forced them to change their surname to kanji (as I’m Chinese). And start their own koseki
Every day a new low for this xenophobic administration
Not being admitted to university without a valid visa = reasonable
Allowing people to to grow up in a country and pass through its entire school system without automatically acquiring a visa = moronic, narrow-minded, short-sighted, and xenophobic
Their parents should be in jail for negligent parenting for not having gotten their children correct visas when they were supposed to
Sorry, it might be a stupid question, but my kids got residency directly through me when they were born here. How can the kids not have any residency status? The parents lost theirs and left Japan?
So the article really means is: to get FREE government subsidies for high school, you will need Japanese residency status. It’s not about where the kid is born. It’s about if they intend to stay in Japan.
Yeah bc these schools are overcrowded already
/s
At least out here where I live
With Japan needing workers, you’d think kids like this growing-up enculturated and fluent in Japanese would be top choice to include in the workforce.
My kids are dual citizens.
It took me 2 weeks to do this.
Figure it out.
What a terribly written article. I can see why it is confusing some people.
The Japanese article is a lot clearer and less sensationalist:
[「進学先が決まらない」仮放免の高校生が直面した壁 [外国人]：朝日新聞](https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASTDD3DVWTDDUTIL011M.html)
Deport him!
Revere the Emperor, expel the barbarians
The title is misleading as so often is the case in this sub.
The children do not have a valid visa due to their prolonged refugee status because they can indefinitely keep applying for a refugee visa despite being denied so they are in legal limbo as they are in a transient state which should be temporary yet due to the flaws in the system is a way for people to keep remaining in the country.
I am all for letting these children stay in the country by creating something like DACA under Obama but something needs to be done to stop people from abusing the refugee visa applications.