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050 00 $aF3359.R97$bS89 2010
082 00 $a305.800984$222
100 1 $aSuzuki, Taku,$d1971-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009184494
245 10 $aEmbodying belonging :$bracializing Okinawan diaspora in Bolivia and Japan /$cTaku Suzuki.
260 $aHonolulu :$bUniversity of Hawaiʻi Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $aix, 255 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tModern Okinawan Transnationality: Colonialism, Diaspora, and "Return" --$g2.$tThe Making of Patrones Japonesas and Dekasegi Migrants --$g3.$tFrom Patron to Nikkei-jin Rodosha: Class Transformation --$g4.$tEducating "Good" Nikkei and Okinawan Subjects --$g5.$tGendering Transnationality: Marriage, Family, and Dekasegi.
520 1 $a"The first Okinawan immigrants arrived in Honolulu in January 1900 to work as contract laborers on Hawai'i's sugar plantations. Over time Okinawans would continue migrating east to the continental U.S., Canada, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Cuba, Paraguay, New Caledonia, and the islands of Micronesia. The essays in this volume commemorate these diasporic experiences within the geopolitical context of East Asia." "Using primary sources and oral history, individual contributors examine how Okinawan identity was constructed in the various countries to which Okinawans migrated, and how their experiences were shaped by the Japanese nation-building project and by globalization. Essays explore the return to Okinawan Sovereignty, or what Nobel Laureate Oe Kenzaburo called an "impossible possibility," and the role of the Okinawan labor diaspora in Japan's imperial expansion into the Philippines and Micronesia." "Embodying Belonging is the first full-length study of an 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 their homeland and created various diasporic communities around the world. Colonia Okinawa, a farming settlement in the tropical plains of eastern Bolivia, is one such community that was established in the 1950s under the guidance of the U.S. military administration. Although they have flourished as farm owners in Bolivia, thanks to generous support from the Japanese government since Okinawa's reversion to Japan in 1972, hundreds of Bolivian-born ethnic Okinawans have left the Colonia in the last two decades and moved to Japanese cities, such as Yokohama, to become manual laborers in construction and manufacturing industries." "Based on the author's multisited field research on the work, education, and community lives of Okinawans in the Colonia and Yokohama, this ethnography challenges the unidirectional model of assimilation and acculturation commonly found in immigration studies. In its vivid depiction of the transnational experiences of Okinawan-Bolivians, it argues that transnational Okinawan-Bolivians underwent the various racialization processes---in which they were portrayed by non-Okinawan Bolivians living in the Colonia and native-born Japanese mainlanders in Yokohama and self-represented by Okinawan-Bolivians themselves---as the physical embodiment of a generalized and naturalized "culture" of Japan, Okinawa, or Bolivia. Racializing narratives and performances ideologically serve as both a cause and result of Okinawan-Bolivians' social and economic status as successful large-scale farm owners in rural Bolivia and struggling manual laborers in urban Japan." "As the most comprehensive work available on Okinawan immigrants in Latin America and ethnic Okinawan "return" migrants in Japan, Embodying Belonging is at once a critical examination of the contradictory class and cultural identity (trans) formations of transmigrants, a rich qualitative study of colonial and post-colonial subjects in diaspora, and a bold attempt to theorize racialization as a social process of belonging within local and global schemes."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aRyukyuans$xRace identity$zBolivia$zColonia Okinawa.
650 0 $aBolivians$xRace identity$zJapan$zYokohama-shi.
650 0 $aImmigrants$zBolivia$zColonia Okinawa$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aChildren of immigrants$zBolivia$zColonia Okinawa$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aReturn migrants$zJapan$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aOkinawa-ken (Japan)$xEmigration and immigration.
651 0 $aColonia Okinawa (Bolivia)$xEmigration and immigration.
650 0 $aTransnationalism$vCase studies.
852 00 $boff,glx$hF3359.R97$iS89 2010