Marriage Migrants of Japanese Women in Australia
Takeshi Hamano
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Beschreibung
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 the ways in which the women remould themselves in Australia by constructing gendered selves that reflect their unique migratory circumstances through cross-border marriage.
In turn, the book argues that the women tend to embrace expressions of Japanese femininity that they once viewed negatively, and that this is due to their lack of social skills and access to the cultural capital of mainstream Australian society. Re-molding the self through conventional Japanese notions of gender ironically provides them with a convincing identity: that of minority migrant women. Nevertheless, by analyzing these women’s engagement with a Japanese ethnic association in a suburb of Sydney, the book alsoreveals a nuanced sense of ambivalence; a tension between the women’s Japanese community and their lives in Australia.
Accordingly, the book provides a fresh perspective on interdisciplinary issues of gender and migration in a globalized world, and engages with a wide range of academic disciplines including: sociology of migration; sociology of culture; cultural anthropology; cultural studies; Japanese studies; Asian studies; gender studies; family studies; migration studies and qualitative methodologies.
Kundenbewertungen
Cross-cultural Families, Gender Politics in Fieldwork, National Ethnic Japanese Community in Australia, Lifestyle of Japanese Migrants in Australia, Japanese Ethnic Communities in Greater Sydney, Suburban Community of Multicultural Australia, Cultural Migrants from Japan, Diversity within Ethnic Community in Australia, History of Japanese Emigration to Australia, Japanese Migration and Residency in Australia, International Mobility of Japanese Women, Japanese Social Change, Consumer Society in Japan, Cross-border Marriage of Japanese Women, Japanese Women’s Gendered Selves, Japanese Women and International Marriage Migration, Japanese Mother’s Community in Western Sydney, Japanese Femininity, Marriage Migration of Japanese Women, Asian Migrants in Australia