Thread: Foreign Workers Paid To Go Home

Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home

by Hiroko Tabuchi
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Franck Robichon for The New York Times

Officials in Hamamatsu, an industrial town in central Japan, describe the plan to encourage Latin American guest workers, who are descendants of Japanese emigrants, to return home.

Rita Yamaoka, a mother of three who immigrated from Brazil, recently lost her factory job here. Now, Japan has made her an offer she might not be able to refuse.

The government will pay thousands of dollars to fly Mrs. Yamaoka; her husband, who is a Brazilian citizen of Japanese descent; and their family back to Brazil. But in exchange, Mrs. Yamaoka and her husband must agree never to seek to work in Japan again.

“I feel immense stress. I’ve been crying very often,â€

We may have to settle for a shorter exclusionary period in order to get repatriation enforcement passed. In our case we may see the ten year exclusion before an illegal alien is allowed to apply again for legal reentry reduced to three.

Spain, with a unemployment rate of 15.5 percent, has adopted a similar program, but immigrants are allowed to reclaim their residency and work visas after three years.

Get the news out to all the Japanese, Latin Countries are you ready to pay your people to return?