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Author Jin, Michael R., author

Title Citizens, immigrants, and the stateless : a Japanese American diaspora in the Pacific / Michael R. Jin
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 223 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Asian America
Asian America.
Contents From citizens to emigrants : the Japanese American transnational generation in the U.S.-Japan borderlands -- From citizens to the stateless : migration, exclusion, and Nisei citizenship -- From citizens to enemy aliens : the "Kibei problem" and Japanese American loyalty during World War II -- Beyond two homelands : Kibei transnationalism in the making of a Japanese American diaspora -- Between two empires : Nisei citizenship and loyalty in the Pacific theater -- Buried wounds of the secret sufferers : memory, history, and the Japanese -- American politics of redress -- Epilogue : does a diaspora expire?
Summary "From the 1920s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 young second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific journeys to the Japanese Empire, putting an ocean between themselves and pervasive anti-Asian racism in the American West. Born U.S. citizens but treated as unwelcome aliens, this contingent of Japanese Americans--one in four U.S.-born Nisei--came in search of better lives but instead encountered a world shaped by increasingly volatile relations between the U.S. and Japan. Based on transnational and bilingual research in the United States and Japan, Michael R. Jin recuperates the stories of this unique group of American emigrants at the crossroads of U.S. and Japanese empire. From the Jim Crow American West to the Japanese colonial frontiers in Asia, and from internment camps in America to Hiroshima on the eve of the atomic bombing, these individuals redefined ideas about home, identity, citizenship, and belonging as they encountered multiple social realities on both sides of the Pacific. Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless examines the deeply intertwined histories of Asian exclusion in the United States, Japanese colonialism in Asia, and volatile geopolitical changes in the Pacific world that converged in the lives of Japanese American migrants"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Michael R. Jin is Assistant Professor of History and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago
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Subject Japanese Americans -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Japanese Americans -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century
Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.
Stateless persons -- History -- 20th century
Transnationalism -- History -- 20th century
Citizenship
Japanese Americans
Stateless persons
Transnationalism
SUBJECT Japan -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
Subject Asia
Japan
United States
West United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021007892
ISBN 9781503628328
1503628329