Immigration has become a polarizing topic in many countries, and the discourse surrounding its public policy solutions often invoke compelling narratives that poke a sensitivity in many people. However, as an increasingly connected and globalised world and economy, the movement of people will continue just as the movement of goods and services continue. Immigration will likely perpetually continue to diversify and layer on populations with multiple identities. These may include identities from their original culture, identities from the country that they immigrated to, or identities that become a hybrid or duality of identities that arise from the immigration experience. Current immigration policy-making holds the problem that it is still unknown what kind of role, if any, does the changing population with multiple identities take on in the immigration policy-making process. Pursuing clarity on this problem through comparing notable immigration policies in Germany, Japan and the US can enlighten policymakers to be evermore effective. This research project aims to utilize the Narrative Policy Framework to map out the character roles of the immigration policy narrative surrounding notable post-World War II immigration policies of Germany, Japan, and the United States of America in order to analyse the impact of what the populations with a multiplicity of identity have on immigration policy-making in the modern world.
