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Illegibility and Immobility in the Social Lives of Muslim Migrants in Japan

Anthropology News

Since the 1970s, Japanese society has increasingly relied on migrants to fill a variety of jobs, although the government has been slow to acknowledge or support them. Although the Japanese government does not record the religion of migrants living in Japan, scholars estimate that 230,000 Muslims are living there as of 2020.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

But Dee said, between fall 2019 and fall 2021, enrollment declined by 2.5 percent between 2019 and 2022, to 48,785 students. A recent Census estimate found 89,000 K-12 students in San Francisco, down from about 93,000 in 2019. At the leading edge of this national trend is San Francisco. Public school enrollment there fell by 7.6