From Foreign Child to Illegal Immigrant

(英文版)ある外国人の日本での20年ー「外国人児童生徒」から「不法滞在者」へ T is a Brazilian of Japanese descent who came to Japan in 1998 at the age of 10 years. He stopped attending school shortly after entering junior high school, and thereafter, he was involved in a repeated pattern of delinquency and crime. While in prison, he lost his status of residence as a long-term resident and became an illegal overstayer. Appealing against the deportation order, he sued the authorities but lost the case. After spending about three years in an MOJ Immigration Control Bureau detention center, he was deported to his home country of Brazil in November 2019. He was aged 31 years at the time. This book follows T through his twenty years in Japan, as a translation of A Foreigner's Twenty Years in Japan: From Foreign Child to Illegal Overstayer, published in October 2019 by Shimotsuke Shimbunsha. T says that he enjoyed life as an elementary school student; what, then, drove him away from school and into delinquency and crime once he began junior high school? What kept him from reform? To what extent should the fact of his delinquency and crime constrain his life? This book focuses on T as an individual to closely examine his twenty years in Japan.