Embodying belonging : racializing Okinawan diaspora in Bolivia and Japan /

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Embodying Belonging is the first full-length study of a Okinawan diasporic community in South America and Japan. Under extraordinary conditions throughout the twentieth century (Imperial Japanese rule, the brutal Battle of Okinawa at the end of World War II, U.S. military occupation), Okinawans left...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Suzuki, Taku, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Honʼyaku iin shachū > Japan
Ryukyuans > Race identity > Bolivia > Colonia Okinawa.
Bolivians > Race identity > Japan > Yokohama-shi.
Immigrants > Bolivia > Colonia Okinawa > Social conditions.
Children of immigrants > Bolivia > Colonia Okinawa > Social conditions.
Return migrants > Japan > Social conditions.
Transnationalism > Case studies.
Boliviens > Identité ethnique > Japon > Yokohama.
Transnationalisme > Études de cas.
Immigrants de retour > Japon > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Children of immigrants > Social conditions
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants > Social conditions
Transnationalism
Ethnische Identität
Migration
Okinawa-ken (Japan) > Emigration and immigration.
Colonia Okinawa (Bolivia) > Emigration and immigration.
Okinawa (Japon : Ken) > Émigration et immigration.
Bolivia > Colonia Okinawa
Japan
Japan > Okinawa-ken
Japan > Yokohama-shi
Okinawa
Bolivien
Case studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Modern Okinawan transnationality : colonialism, diaspora, and "return"
  • The making of patrones japonesas and dekasegi migrants
  • From patrón to Nikkei-jin rōdōsha : class transformations
  • Educating "good" Nikkei and Okinawan subjects
  • Gendering transnationality : marriage, family and dekasegi.

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