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Japanese Literature and Environmental Crises
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Karen Thornber
Published: 01 July 2013
... as eco-cosmopolitanism, or “environmental world citizenship.” They also depict people as both determined polluters and haplessly polluted, harmed, and even killed by damaged environments. poetry and literature Jomei Emperor Man’yōshū Collection of ten thousand leaves Atomic Bomb Poetry Nagatsu et al...
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Published: 30 September 2015
... of belonging and citizenship in the history of the Indian Ocean region: passport registers held in the Gujarat State Archives, the stories of people who were left behind in Gujarat by migrating kinfolk or who had returned there from East Africa, and correspondence between activists in East Africa and the All...
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Conclusion
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Anoma Pieris
Published: 28 February 2009
...This concluding chapter reflects on the implications of this history for understanding contemporary Singapore. It suggests that the division of labor and the spatial entitlements first experimented within the colonial prison recur in a model of graduated citizenship that cuts sharply across...
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Published: 31 January 2013
... review Hmong American experience Hmong American history Hmong American Period Hmong American community citizenship Hmong acculturation refugees The Secret War in Laos, which was part of the Vietnam War and the Cold War, ended in 1975. The end of this war forced an estimated one-half of the Hmong...
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The Quest for Identity 1918–1941
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Robert F. Rogers
Published: 30 June 2011
... citizenship by Governor Willis W. Bradley, Jr., the consequences of the Great Depression, and the external politics that would herald the outbreak of World War II. Yet over the sweep of Guam’s long history, American government of the island for the forty years prior to World War II can be judged to have been...
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Marriage and Australian Citizenship
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Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers
Published: 31 May 2015
... enough to take up citizenship. Broome citizenship Edgar Susan Marjardee Gafoer Garfou Abdoel and daughter Susan Edgar Immigration policy Australia Norman Hugh White Australia policy Ah Dep Darwin Palmerston deportation diver’s tender McDaniel Daniel & Son Company Robinson & Norman...
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Published online: 24 May 2018
Published in print: 30 November 2017
... in their countries of diaspora. Part II is devoted to four intangible “borders”—social spaces, citizenship, Korean language, and family—and how each border shapes the affective conditions of legacy migrants. It goes on to demonstrate how their evolving psychoemotional responses, which I call “affective topography...
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War’s Aftermath and the Courts
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Harry N. Scheiber and Jane L. Scheiber
Published: 29 February 2016
..., where pro-Japan radicals had bullied a large number of prisoners into renouncing their American citizenship. Represented by a civil liberties attorney, they won a federal injunction against mass deportation to Japan, and a subsequent court decision ordered the Justice Department to individually...
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Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and "Multiculturalism" in Rural South Korea
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Minjeong Kim
Published online: 20 September 2018
Published in print: 30 April 2018
... among Filipina wives, South Korean husbands, in-laws, and multicultural agents, with particular focus on such emotions as love, intimacy, anxiety, gratitude, and derision, which shape marriage immigrants’ fragmented citizenship and elusive sense of belonging to their new country. This investigation...
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Published: 31 July 2008
...” to theatricalized stereotypes about Japanese culture, the spectacularization of Asian American assimilation, and the scrutinization of Japanese American loyalty. Significantly, these transnational performing artists rejected the myth of performative citizenship outright by denying that the enactment of either...
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The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network
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Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers
Published online: 17 November 2016
Published in print: 31 May 2015
... Australia became their new home. It took until the 1960s, however, for those men to overcome the White Australia policy and claim Australian citizenship....
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Published: 31 January 2012
... Osaka assimilation citizenship Ryukyu Kingdom Sino Japanese War 1937–1945 Irish Shinto factories employing Okinawan workers Great Tokyo Earthquake 1923 Japan Communist Party JCP Pacific War 1941–1945 World War I Yamato early Japanese state black market Occupation Allied of mainland Japan...
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Epilogue
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Amy Sueyoshi
Published: 29 February 2012
... found himself involved in queer intimacies, and his story illustrates how dominant norms of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship significantly shape people's intimate lives even as they might appear transgressive. This epilogue first considers the debates within and across Japan studies, literary...
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Epilogue
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Shiho Imai
Published: 11 August 2010
... citizenship not only in the military, but also in the marketplace, and how they were affected by the statehood debate. It also explores the link between prewar and postwar notions of beauty as they relate to the social construction of “whiteness.” ethnic press Great Depression Hawaii Herald Hawaii Hochi...
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Chang Hyŏkchu and the Short Twentieth Century
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John Whittier Treat
Published: 31 May 2016
... and writings of Chang Hyŏkchu (1905-97), a Korean who halfway through his life took Japanese citizenship. But that second half mattered little. Chang’s career was essentially coterminous with the Japanese imperial interregnum on the Korean peninsula, lasting from the imposition of the Protectorate in the year...
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Published online: 17 November 2016
Published in print: 11 August 2010
...In 1922 the U.S. Supreme Court declared Japanese immigrants ineligible for American citizenship because they were not “white,” dismissing the plaintiff's appeal to skin tone. Unable to claim whiteness through naturalization laws, Japanese Americans in Hawaiʻi developed their own racial currency...
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Hidden Hands
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Anoma Pieris
Published: 28 February 2009
...This chapter discusses how the colonial urban plan was inscribed temporally by the activities of penal labor. By rewriting the city as a product of labor subjectivity and exploring the penal divisions that evolved to support it, the chapter demonstrates how ideas of race and colonial citizenship...
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Tonga in the Time of the Americans
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Judith A. Bennett
Published: 31 March 2016
... shame silence divorce consul citizenship prostitution Tongatapu. … Its fame spread to Guadalcanal, Santo, Efate, and all islands in general. Among men with airplanes it became known as “Fat Cat Island Number One,” and was a most desirable place to visit. The reasons for this are obvious...
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The Organic Act Becomes Law
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Doloris Coulter Cogan
Published: 25 March 2008
....) introduced H.R. 7273 on February 13, 1950, and on February 22, the House Public Lands Committee issued a favorable report recommending that the full House pass the bill. In its report, the committee said that the purpose of H.R. 7273 was to confer U.S. citizenship on the people of Guam, to grant them a bill...
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“A Race of Ingenious Marionettes” Theatricalizing the Japanese, 1853–1946
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Emily Roxworthy
Published: 31 July 2008
... to U.S. citizenship were merely surface imitations of Americanization that disguised their deep-seated loyalty to the Japanese Empire. The chapter traces this theatricalizing discourse circulated by thinkers in the West about the natural-born actors of Japan from the 1850s up to the present, in which...