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Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980-2020

Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980-2020

Toyota, Tritia

Paperback

Series: Asian American History & Cultu

Asian American StudiesImmigration & RefugeesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1439923523
ISBN13: 9781439923528
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: Oct 20 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At the end of the twentieth century, many twenty-something Japanese women migrated to places like Southern California with few skills and an overall lack of human capital. These women, members of the shin Issei community, sought economic opportunities unavailable to them in their homeland. In Intimate Strangers, shin Issei women tell stories of precarity, inequality, and continuing marginality, first in Japan, where they were restricted by gendered social structures, and later in the United States, where their experiences were compounded by issues such as citizenship.

Intimate Strangers charts the experiences of shin Issei lives: their existence in Japan prior to migration, their motivations for moving to the United States, their settlement, and their growing awareness of their place in American society. Toyota chronicles how these resilient young women became active agents in circumventing social restrictions to fashion new lives of meaning. The Nikkei community (Americans of Japanese ancestry who were born in the United States) has been transformed by the inclusion of shin Issei, and Toyota describes the tensions around intergroup negotiations over race, identity, and the possibility of common belonging.

Intimate Strangers is a perceptive study of migration and community incorporation enacted around cultural differences and processes.

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