Japanese diasporas : unsung pasts, conflicting presents, and uncertain futures

Contributor(s):

Nobuko Adachi [Editor]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London: Routledge, c2006Description: xvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24cmISBN:

9780415497459

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

REF 909.04956 J27

Contents:

Introduction Japanese diaspora in New World: its Asian predecessors and origins / Roger Daniels Japanese emigration and immigrations: from the Meiji to the modern / James Stanlaw Instructions to emigrant laborers, 1885-94: "return in triumph" or "wander on the verge of starvation" / Jonathan Dresner Paradise lost: Japan's agricultural colonists in Manchukuo / Greg P. Guelcher Intermarried issei and mestizo Nisei in the Philippines: reflections on the origin of Philippine nikkeijin problems / Shun Ohno Constructing Japanese Brazilian identity: from agrarian migrants to Urban white-collar workers Stone voice: diary of a Japanese transnational migrant in Canada / Keibo Oiwa Japanese of Peru: first-century experience and beyond / Daniel M. Masterson Japanese Latin Americans during World War II: a reconsideration / Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and Akemi Kikumura-Yano Four governments and a new land: emigration to Bolivia / Kozy Amemiya Acting Japanese / Gary Y. Okihiro Crossing ethnic boundaries: challenge of Brazilian Nikkeijin return migrants in Japan / Takeyuki Tsuda Overseas Japanese and the challenges of repatriation in post-colonial East Asia / Mariko Asano Tamanoi Negotiating work and self: experiences of Japanese working women in Singapore / Leng Leng Thang, Miho Goda, and Elizabeth Maclachlan

Summary: An examination of the relationship of overseas Japanese and their descendents (Nikkei) with their home and host nations, focusing on their political, social and economic struggles. The authors suggest some of the ways in which diasporas are transforming global society today

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DONATION	LAPULAPU-CEBU INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE REFERENCE SECTION	REF 909.04956 J27 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		005353

Introduction
Japanese diaspora in New World: its Asian predecessors and origins / Roger Daniels
Japanese emigration and immigrations: from the Meiji to the modern / James Stanlaw
Instructions to emigrant laborers, 1885-94: "return in triumph" or "wander on the verge of starvation" / Jonathan Dresner
Paradise lost: Japan's agricultural colonists in Manchukuo / Greg P. Guelcher
Intermarried issei and mestizo Nisei in the Philippines: reflections on the origin of Philippine nikkeijin problems / Shun Ohno
Constructing Japanese Brazilian identity: from agrarian migrants to Urban white-collar workers
Stone voice: diary of a Japanese transnational migrant in Canada / Keibo Oiwa
Japanese of Peru: first-century experience and beyond / Daniel M. Masterson
Japanese Latin Americans during World War II: a reconsideration / Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and Akemi Kikumura-Yano
Four governments and a new land: emigration to Bolivia / Kozy Amemiya
Acting Japanese / Gary Y. Okihiro
Crossing ethnic boundaries: challenge of Brazilian Nikkeijin return migrants in Japan / Takeyuki Tsuda
Overseas Japanese and the challenges of repatriation in post-colonial East Asia / Mariko Asano Tamanoi
Negotiating work and self: experiences of Japanese working women in Singapore / Leng Leng Thang, Miho Goda, and Elizabeth Maclachlan

An examination of the relationship of overseas Japanese and their descendents (Nikkei) with their home and host nations, focusing on their political, social and economic struggles. The authors suggest some of the ways in which diasporas are transforming global society today

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