Marriage Migrants of Japanese Women in Australia Remoulding Gendered Selves in Suburban Community /

• Main Author: Hamano, Takeshi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Culture.; Emigration and immigration.; Sociology.; Cultural studies.; Anthropology.; Sociology of Culture.; Migration.; Gender Studies.; Cultural Studies.

This book investigates the experience of Japanese women who have immigrated to Australia through marriage to a local partner. Based on long-term participant observations gathered with a Japanese ethnic association in Sydney, and on in-depth interviews with the association's members, it examines...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgement
• 1. Japanese Women and International Marriage Migration
• 2. Japanese Emigration to Australia, 1880s-2000s
• 3. Nikkei' identity in Question: A Story of National Ethnic Japanese Organization in Australia between 1990 and 2000s
• 4. Relational Femininities: Exploring the Discourse of High Flexibility of Japanese Women's Gendered Selves
• 5. Becoming a Local Woman: The Logic of Ethno-Gendered Selves of Japanese Women in Greater Sydney
• 6. Bridging to the Mainstream: the Making of Group of Japanese Mothers in the Multicultural Community
• 7. Things Constructed through the Field work
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index.