Japanese women, marriage migration and cultural identity: thinking through globalisation, diaspora and transnationalism

Atsushi Takeda; Julie M Matthews

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Japanese women, marriage migration and cultural identity: thinking through globalisation, diaspora and transnationalism

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Japanese women, marriage migration and cultural identity: thinking through globalisation, diaspora and transnationalism

Atsushi Takeda and Julie M Matthews

Proceedings of the 2009 Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, pp.1-11

Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference: The Future of Sociology Australia, 2009 (Canberra, Australia, 01-Dec-2009–04-Dec-2009)

Australian Sociological Association

2009

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Cultural Studies

Sociology

marriage migration

international marriage

Japanese women

diaspora

globalisation

transnationalism

Marriage migration is a growing field of study which focuses predominately on women in general and third world women in particular. Most studies of marriage migration and international marriage offer detailed accounts of international mobility and call on theories of globalisation, diaspora and / or transnationalism to explain the phenomenon. This paper takes the historical and contemporary case of Japanese women marriage migrants to Australia to examine insights offered by these three approaches. In particular the paper shows how notions of diaspora and transnationalism offer useful ways to conceptualise the identity and mobility of past and contemporary marriage migrants whose physical, virtual and emotional connectivity zigzags back and forth from homeland to new home. The implications of this uneven situation for cultural and national identity is that at diferent points in time identities lapse and are renewed and revived in relation to diferent historical, economic and social conditions.

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Title: Japanese women, marriage migration and cultural identity: thinking through globalisation, diaspora and transnationalism
Authors: Atsushi Takeda (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Julie M Matthews (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Contributors: S Lockie (Editor)
D Bissell (Editor)
A Greig (Editor)
M Hynes (Editor)
L Saha (Editor)
J Sikora (Editor)
D Woodman (Editor)
Publication details: Proceedings of the 2009 Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, pp.1-11
Conference details: Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference: The Future of Sociology Australia, 2009 (Canberra, Australia, 01-Dec-2009–04-Dec-2009)
Publisher: Australian Sociological Association
Date published: 2009
ISBN: 9780646525013
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449740002621
Output Type: Conference paper

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