Japanese Migrations to Australia : Transformation and Heterogeneity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamada, Iori.

Contributor:

Hamano, Takeshi.

Shiobara, Yoshikazu.

Series:

Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

This book stands as the first comprehensive English-language scholarly book dedicated to the dynamic and multifaceted aspects of Japanese Migrations to Australia.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Reconceptualising Japanese Migrations to Australia-Post-Middle-Class Mobilities and Heterogeneous Global Pathways

Introduction

Historical Echoes in Modern Trajectories

Japan-Australia Migration in Context: Diaspora, Class and Mobility Regimes

From Nikkei to Dispersed Diaspora: Historical Disruptions and Contemporary Dispersal

Reframing Japanese Mobility: Post-Middle-Class Marginality and Non-Linear Trajectories

Part I. Japanese Migrations to Australia: Their Angles and Trends

Youths in the Temporary Migration Regime

Partnership-Based Migration and Youths With Mixed Heritage

Emerging Post-3/11 Migration

Part II. Japanese Communities to Enrich Multicultural Australia

Japanese as a Community Language

Building Communities Through Tourism, Hospitality and Art

Japanese Australian Indigeneity, LGBTQ+ Diaspora and Communities' Political Engagement

Conclusion

Notes

References

Part I Japanese Migrations to Australia: Their Angles and Trends

2 Uneven Cosmopolitanism: Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia and the 'Lost Decade'

Fieldwork

Sojourns in Australia, Cosmopolitan Dreams and the Migration Industry

Individualisation, Neoliberal Subjectivity and Consumption in Late Modern Japan

In Search of 'A Job Where I Can Use My English'

Cosmopolitan Jobs: The Gap Between Ideal and Reality

3 Japanese Student Mobility to Australia: Distortions in Policy and Practice

Background: Japan-Australia Relations and Student Mobility

The Education Agent as an Actor in Japan-Australia Student Mobility.

Methodology: Agent-Mediated Narratives of Japan-Australia Student Mobility

Agents' Clientele: From Global Elites to Cosmopolitan Dreamers

Explaining Australian Education Through a Japanese Lens

Connecting Study and Work

Prospects of Long-Term Residence in Australia

Discussion and Conclusions

4 Japanese Women's Partnership Migration to Australia: A Backdrop of the Resurgence of Japanese Migration to Australia After World War II

Identifying Japanese Migration to Contemporary Australia

Aim of this Chapter

Japanese Community in Australia After WWII

Resumption of Japanese Migration to Australia: The 1950s

New Relations, New Japanese Migrants

New Nikkei Diaspora in Australia

Growing Japanese Community in Australia: The 1990s

Ethnic Organisations of the Japanese Community

Gendered Japanese Community in Australia

Partnership Migration Among Japanese Migrants

Women's Migration and Japanese Community in Australia: A Discussion

5 Journeys of Belonging: Mixed-Race Japanese Australian Youth in a Mobile World

Japanese and Australian: Moving Across Borders and Mixed Identities

Method

International Mobility

Family

Language and Culture

Mobility as Self-Exploration

6 Conflict Narratives: Post-3/11 Japanese Migration to Australia and Life Afterwards

Conceptualising Post-3/11 Conflicts: Conflict-Related Migration and Migration-Related Conflicts

Data and Methods

Findings

Pre-migration Conflicts

Household-Level Conflicts

Community-Level Conflicts

Institutional-Level Conflicts

Post-migration Conflicts

Discussion and Conclusion

Acknowledgements.

References

Part II Japanese Communities to Enrich Multicultural Australia

7 Teaching Japanese as a Community Language in Australia: Insights From Educators and Their Beliefs

JCL Schools

Language Policies and Ideologies

Language Ideologies Underlying Teachers' Beliefs and Practices

Issues Related to Language Ideologies and How Teachers Deal With Them

Language Ideologies Surrounding JCL Schools

Analysis and Discussion

Educators' Beliefs and Challenges

Beliefs About Language Use and Language Teaching

Beliefs About Teaching in General

Parental Commitment and Support

Educators' Response to Challenges and Translanguaging

Acknowledgement

8 Re-Imagining Japan-Australia Relations Through Tourism: An Examination of the Backgrounds and Strategies of Daikyo's Resort Development in Cairns

Daikyo's Corporate History and Its Foray Into Overseas Resort Development

Daikyo's Business Activities in Its Early Period and Its Corporate Culture in Japan

Foray Into Overseas Resort Development: Towards the Construction of a 'Second Hawaii'

The Content of Daikyo's Development in Cairns

Japanese Companies' Acquisition of Prime Urban Locations in Queensland, and Daikyo's Measures to Respond to Criticism and Opposition in Cairns

Land Acquisition By Japanese Capital

Addressing Community Concerns and Opposition By Building Consensus With the General Population and Key Influential Figures

Consequences of Tourism Development

Downsizing and Withdrawal of Daikyo's Operations Following the Bursting of the Bubble Economy in Japan

Development of a 'Resort for Everyone'

Increase in the Number of Japanese Tourists and Residents

References.

9 'Gastro-Cool': Japanese Restaurants in Urban Australia, 1950s-2023

Migrant Entrepreneurial Adaptation

From 'Ethnic Enclaves' to 'Gastro-Cool': Japanese Restaurants in Australia's Racial-Cultural Politics

Cross-cultural Exchange

Community Connections

10 Nikkei Australia: A Creative Cultural Community

Creatives

Nikkei

In Repose

Nikkei Australia

Yasukichi Murakami - Through a Distant Lens

1.5 - 2 Gen

Nikkei as Part of Asian Australia

Nikkei Australia's Cowra Projects

Mixed Heritage

Past Wrongs Future Choices

New Nikkei Creatives

Future Perspectives

Note

11 Fusion Food: Japanese Ancestry and the Meaning Making of Food in Coastal Broome, Western Australia

Literature Review

Methodology

Japanese First-Generation Migrant Food and Memories Thereof

Broome Fusion Food

Different Recipes, Different Meanings

12 Crossing Borders, Redefining Identities: Japanese LGBTQ+ Migration to Australia

Data and Methodology

Participants' Experiences in Australia

Navigating Identity and Belonging: The Unique Social Context of Japanese LGBTQ+ Migration to Australia

Conclusions

13 Gendered Sub-Politics in the Civil Society: Profiling Political Culture of Japanese Community in Australia

Research Design

Methods

Key Findings

Political Interest of the Japanese Community in Australia

Japanese Political Culture

Political Experience of the Japanese Community in Australia

Effects of Social Profiles

Gender, Age and Citizenship Status

Political Culture Re-Framed: Discussion

Notes.

14 Conclusion: Between Nihonjin and Nikkeijin: Multiple Realities and Communities of Contemporary Japanese Migrants in Australia

Intersectionality On the National Identity of JMAs and Its Transformation

The Decline of the 'Special Asian Middle-Class Migrant' Fantasy

Imin as a Part of Multiple Realities

Multiple Self-Identification

Mobility as a Search for Hope

Roots and Routes of Nikkei Australians

Concluding Remarks: JMA/Nikkei Australians as a Multiple and Boundary-Permeable Community

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781003582830

OCLC:

1564375001

Publisher Number:

CIPO000302052