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Embodying belonging : racializing Okinawan diaspora in Bolivia and Japan, Taku Suzuki
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- Summary
- 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 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 postcolonial subjects in diaspora, and a bold attempt to theorize racialization as a social process of belonging within local and global schemes
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 255 pages)
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780824860547
- Label
- Embodying belonging : racializing Okinawan diaspora in Bolivia and Japan
- Title
- Embodying belonging
- Title remainder
- racializing Okinawan diaspora in Bolivia and Japan
- Statement of responsibility
- Taku Suzuki
- Subject
-
- Immigrants -- Social conditions
- Ryukyuans -- Race identity -- Bolivia | Colonia Okinawa
- Japan
- Japan -- Yokohama-shi
- Okinawa
- Return migrants -- Japan -- Social conditions
- Electronic books
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- Emigration and immigration
- Colonia Okinawa (Bolivia) -- Emigration and immigration
- Japan
- Okinawa-ken (Japan) -- Emigration and immigration
- Bolivien
- Case studies
- Children of immigrants -- Bolivia | Colonia Okinawa -- Social conditions
- Bolivians -- Race identity -- Japan | Yokohama-shi
- Migration
- Ethnische Identität
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- Immigrants -- Bolivia | Colonia Okinawa -- Social conditions
- Transnationalism
- Bolivia -- Colonia Okinawa
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- Transnationalism -- Case studies
- Japan -- Okinawa-ken
- Children of immigrants -- Social conditions
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 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 postcolonial subjects in diaspora, and a bold attempt to theorize racialization as a social process of belonging within local and global schemes
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1971-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Suzuki, Taku
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ryukyuans
- Bolivians
- Immigrants
- Children of immigrants
- Return migrants
- Okinawa-ken (Japan)
- Colonia Okinawa (Bolivia)
- Transnationalism
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Children of immigrants
- Emigration and immigration
- Immigrants
- Transnationalism
- Bolivia
- Japan
- Japan
- Japan
- Ethnische Identität
- Migration
- Okinawa
- Japan
- Bolivien
- Label
- Embodying belonging : racializing Okinawan diaspora in Bolivia and Japan, Taku Suzuki
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn663885702
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 255 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824860547
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
-
- 40018073230
- ebc3413449
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt62tsbt
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)663885702
- Label
- Embodying belonging : racializing Okinawan diaspora in Bolivia and Japan, Taku Suzuki
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn663885702
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 255 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824860547
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
-
- 40018073230
- ebc3413449
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt62tsbt
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)663885702
Subject
- Bolivia -- Colonia Okinawa
- Bolivians -- Race identity -- Japan | Yokohama-shi
- Bolivien
- Case studies
- Children of immigrants -- Bolivia | Colonia Okinawa -- Social conditions
- Children of immigrants -- Social conditions
- Colonia Okinawa (Bolivia) -- Emigration and immigration
- Electronic books
- Emigration and immigration
- Ethnische Identität
- Immigrants -- Bolivia | Colonia Okinawa -- Social conditions
- Immigrants -- Social conditions
- Japan
- Japan
- Japan -- Okinawa-ken
- Japan -- Yokohama-shi
- Migration
- Okinawa
- Okinawa-ken (Japan) -- Emigration and immigration
- Return migrants -- Japan -- Social conditions
- Ryukyuans -- Race identity -- Bolivia | Colonia Okinawa
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- Transnationalism
- Transnationalism -- Case studies
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