New Worlds, New Lives : Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas Andfrom Latin America in Japen

Preface xiii Contributors xxi Part One: The Impact of Globalization on Nikkei Identities Introduction to Part One 1(4) Eiichiro Azuma Globalization as Human Dispersal: Nikkei in the World 5(14) Harumi Befu The Impact of Contemporary Globalization on Nikkei Identities 19(18) Lane Ryo Hirabayashi Akemi Kikumura-Yano James A. Hirabayashi Part Two: Conjunctions of Nikkei Identities Introduction to Part Two 29(8) Lloyd Inui COMMUNITY FORMATIONS AND LINKAGES In Search of the Hyphen: Nikkei and the Struggle over Brazilian National Identity 37(22) Jeffrey Lesser Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia: Relief Materials and Nikkei Populations in the United States and Canada 59(17) Masako Iino An Approach to the Formation of Nikkei Identity in Peru: Issei and Nisei 76(14) Raul Araki The ``Labor Pains'' of Forging a Nikkei Community: A Study of the Santa Cruz Region in Bolivia 90(18) Kozy Amemiya THE POLITICS OF ETHNIC REPRODUCTION: EDUCATION AND REPRESENTATION ``The Twain Shall Meet'' in the Nisei? Japanese Language Education and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1900-1940 108(18) Teruko Kumei The Nikkei's Education in the Japanese Language in Paraguay: The Japanese Educational System and Its Influence on the Colonies 126(15) Emi Kasamatsu Peruvian Nikkei: A Sociopolitical Portrait 141(18) Amelia Morimoto Pathways to Power: Comparative Perspectives on the Emergence of Nikkei Ethnic Political Traditions 159(28) Lane Ryo Hirabayashi Part Three: Disjunctions of Nikkei Identities Introduction to Part Three 179(8) Richard Kosaki GENDER AND IDENTITY I Woman, I Man, I Nikkei: Symbolic Construction of Femininity and Masculinity in the Japanese Community of Peru 187(18) Doris Moromisato Miasato Migration as a Negotiation of Gender: Recent Japanese Immigrant Women in Canada 205(16) Audrey Kobayashi Race, Gender, Ethnicity and the Narrative of National Identity in the Films of Tizuka Yamazaki 221(16) Naomi Hoki Moniz THE DEKASEGI PHENOMENON The Japanese-Brazilian Dekasegi Phenomenon: An Economic Perspective 237(12) Edson Mori The Dekasegi Phenomenon and the Education of Japanese Brazilian Children in Japanese Schools 249(12) Masato Ninomiya The Emigration of Argentines of Japanese Descent to Japan 261(18) Marcelo G. Higa EMERGING IDENTITIES The Nikkei Negotiation of Minority/Majority Dynamics in Peru and the United States 279(17) Steven Masami Ropp The Uchinanchu Diaspora and the Boundary of ``Nikkei'' 296(14) Makoto Arakaki Nikkeijin and Multicultural Coexistence in Japan: Kobe after the Great Earthquake 310(23) Yasuko I. Takezawa Part Four: Retrospect and Prospects Retrospect and Prospects 333(18) Lane Ryo Hirabayashi Akemi Kikumura-Yano James A. Hirabayashi Index 351