Intimate encounters : Filipina women and the remaking of rural Japan

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Label

Intimate encounters : Filipina women and the remaking of rural Japan

Title remainder

Filipina women and the remaking of rural Japan

Statement of responsibility

Lieba Faier

Creator

• Faier, Lieba

Subject

• Electronic books
• Foreign workers, Filipino
• Foreign workers, Filipino -- Japan
• History
• Japan
• Philippines
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
• Women
• Women -- Japan -- History
• Electronic book
• Women -- Philippines -- Social conditions
• Women -- Social conditions
• Women foreign workers
• Women foreign workers -- Japan
• Women household employees
• Women household employees -- Japan
• Women -- Japan -- Social conditions

Genre

• Electronic books
• History
• Electronic book

Language

eng

Summary

This study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars--where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners--came to be identified by the local residents as "ideal, traditional Japanese brides." Intimate Encounters, an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a "zone of encounters," showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. Intimate Encounters provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora. --From publisher's description

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

E7B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography