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Embodying belonging : racializing Okinawan diaspora in Bolivia and Japan /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Suzuki, Taku, 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2010]
Subjects:
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.
Okinawa-ken (Japan) > Emigration and immigration.
Colonia Okinawa (Bolivia) > Emigration and immigration.
Transnationalism > Case studies.
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.