Exploring the trajectories of highly skilled migration law and policy in Japan and the UK

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 5 long-term migration inflows by type (thousand)

	year	work^a	family	Humanitarian	others	free movement	International students^b	trainees^c
Japan	2018	66	31.9	0.1	17	NA	124.2	157.8
	2014	29.3	21.4	0.2	12.8	NA	82.5	98.7
	2010	19.3	21.9	0.4	14.1	NA	63.5	51.7
UK	2018	36.6	88.7	25.2	32.7	159.5	330.9	NA
	2014	79.2	64.4	17.2	22.4	128.2	missing	NA
	2010	84	64.7	21.3	22.3	98.3	234	NA

Source: OECD, (2012–2020)
^a‘Work’ includes HSM schemes in both countries but encompasses other categories as well (e.g. Tier 5 in the UK); therefore, the numerical data is different from Tables 3 and 4
^b International students and trainees are temporary migrants in OECD figures
^c Trainees are mostly technical interns in Japan