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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Liu-Farrer, Gracia. Immigrant Japan. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020 (DLC) 2019031541 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gracia Liu-Farrer |
ISBN: | 9781501748639 1501748637 9781501748646 1501748645 |
OCLC Number: | 1110677986 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) |
Contents: | Immigrating to Japan -- Migration channels and the shaping of immigrant ethno-scapes -- Working in Japan -- Weaving the web of a life in Japan -- To leave, to return -- Home and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society -- Children of immigrants : education mobilities -- Growing up in Japan: the identity journeys. |
Responsibility: | Gracia Liu-Farrer. |
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"Immigrant Japan is a necessary addition to the bookshelf of contemporary Japan and migration studies scholars, students and everyday persons. Liu-Farrer's work in sharing the voices of immigrants is an invaluable resource for readers who aspire to build a more nuanced understanding of contemporary Japanese society and the immigrants who have long been a part of it." * New Voices in Japanese Studies * "In her impressive book, Liu-Farrer draws on interviews with 229 research subjects as well as ethnography, focus group analysis, stories of migrants from secondary literature, and her own experiences as a migrant to and naturalized citizen of Japan to examine how migrants to Japan negotiate issues regarding home and belonging. Liu-Farrer's book is engagingly written, and the stories of her interviewees as well as her ethnographic vignettes are appealing and fun to read." * Monumenta Nipponica * Read more...

