...This chapter focuses on the Chinese immigration to Hawaiʻi. Its history is unique in the history of Chinese moving to the West, inasmuch as those who came to Hawaiʻi were not immigrating to the United States of America but to the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, with its ethnic mix of peoples quite different...

... to multiethnic ethnoburbs in the latter half of the twentieth century. It considers how the ethnoburb, as a form of urban ethnic settlement, has been formed by the interplay among economic globalization, political struggles between and within nation-states, immigration policy shifts in the United States...

...This chapter examines the characteristics of an ethnoburb in order to provide a theoretical explanation of the process of ethnoburb formation as well as a general portrait of the ethnoburb population. Focusing on the Chinese ethnoburb in Los Angeles, it considers where the area's Chinese immigrants...

... in San Gabriel Valley. It also describes ethnoburbs in other North American cities and ends by discussing the opportunities and challenges presented by ethnoburbs with regard to immigration, race, and ethnicity. Chinatown Chinese ethnoburb ethnoburb San Gabriel Valley Assimilation ethnoburb...

...This chapter too shows how poverty among Japanese immigrants on Hawai’ian sugar plantations differed from that in Japan’s cities. It begins with the reasons for immigration and the locales from which people came, as well as the process for getting to the plantations. A section on the sugar fields...

...This chapter examines the patterns of trade and migration between Okinawa and mainland Japan, particularly from the Okinawan side. Despite the strict prohibitions on immigration and travel during the Tokugawa shogunate, evidence strongly suggests that people from Ryukyu went for gainful employment...

... descendants of Okinawan migrants atomic bombings Hiroshima City Imperial Japanese forces Battle of Okinawa 1945 Liberal Democratic Party LDP Chinese immigration and residence in Japan Kobe City Taiwanese residents of Japan Tokugawa shogunate Yokohama City Sino Japanese War 1894–1895 immigrants...

... status categories ( mibun ), including cultural taboos associated with outcaste status, also mediated the responses of Meiji immigrants to conditions they encountered on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border, including white racism and job opportunities. Japanese immigrant negotiations...

... rights, along with its lobbying efforts for a variety of issues such as the Chinese Exclusion Act. It also looks at the Qing legation’s attempt to reform Chinatown and concludes by assessing the role of the Six Companies in the Qing government’s immigration treaties with the United States. Cui Guoyin...

... the Six Companies responded the unprecedented anti-Chinese challenges of the 1870s, first by discussing its efforts to restrict Chinese immigration from 1876 to 1878. It then explores the Six Companies role as reformer of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1870s, as defender of Chinese rights, and its...

...This chapter introduces the case study, based on southern Fujian province from the Neolithic through the early stages of sinitic immigration. The discussion covers evidence pertaining to early religious beliefs, including shamanism and totemism, and addresses cults devoted to demonic icons...

...Chapter Six picks up where Five left off with an overview of the encounter between the indigenous inhabitants of southern Fujian and the sinitic immigrants. Thhe chapter focuses on four “encounter narratives”: the early history of Buddhism in Quanzhou and Putian; the story of Chen Zheng and his son...

... likely, military intelligence and the FBI—believing they had nothing to fear from the vast majority of ethnic Japanese—decided on a policy of depriving the first generation Japanese immigrants (Issei) of their leadership and of “Americanizing” the second generation (Nisei), rather than trying...

... international students from Asia Chiang Kai shek Cold War refugees Yellow Peril international education Sino-American relations immigration history Paul Zhi Meng (1901–1990), a seventy-second generation descendant of Mencius, makes but brief appearances in histories of either China or Asian America...

...The introductory chapter begins with a review of the literature on international marriages from Asia and within Asia, and then covers the literature on marriage immigrants. The chapter explains politics of belonging as the main theoretical framework, which links the political and the emotional...

...After World War II, the U.S. military built vast installations and imposed occupation rule until 1972. For all the post-war years Okinawans have lived next door to American bases. As one result, large numbers of Okinawan women married American military men and immigrated to the U.S. Couples had...

...Starting in 1908, Japanese immigrants arrived as coffee colonos in São Paulo state. Required to immigrate in family units, the Japanese settled down among themselves in rural São Paulo. In the 1930s and early 1940s they were challenged greatly by Brazilian nationalism under President Getúlio Vargas...

... nativism is understand outside of Japanese studies. Nativism is a term firmly embedded in nineteenth-century American history, when it signified opposition to immigrants, their descendants, and ethnic minority groups in general. In anthropology, nativism signified the reactions of indigenous peoples...

... advanced sugar industries in the world. But Japanese labor unrest caused the HSPA to recruit Filipino immigrants, and plantations began to employ contractors for field operations. Alexander & Baldwin groundwater aquifers ‘Haikū Sugar Company labor Organic Acts wells irrigation Department...

... Lu Sheldon Zhang Longxi France Higonnet Patrice on Paris Rojek Chris on tourist sites Music Goddess of Liberty statue Hung Wu on Goddess of Democracy immigrants Forbidden City Mao Zedong arthouse film China the People’s Republic of commercial cinema Jaffee Valerie on banned films Louis...