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Highlights
- The first Okinawan immigrants arrived in Honolulu in January 1900 to work as contract laborers on Hawai'i's sugar plantations.
- Author(s): Ronald Y Nakasone
- 216 Pages
- Social Science, Emigration & Immigration
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Book Synopsis
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. Contributors: Arakaki Makoto, Robert K. Arakaki, Hokama Shuzen, Edith M. Kaneshiro, Ronald Y. Nakasone, Nomura Koya, Shirota Chika, Tomiyama Ichiro, Wesley Ueunten.Dimensions (Overall): 8.62 Inches (H) x 6.36 Inches (W) x .55 Inches (D)
Weight: .78 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 216
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Emigration & Immigration
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Ronald Y Nakasone
Language: English
Street Date: February 28, 2002
TCIN: 88362797
UPC: 9780824825300
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-1480
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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