348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2000. This book aims to study the shifting identity of Japanese returnees(kikokushijo) within a migrational context. The core findings, based on literature and fieldwork in Brussels and Japan.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Theoretical and Methodological Issues; Part 1 At the Macro Level; Chapter 3 In Search of an Ethnonational Identity; Chapter 4 Nihonbunkaron in the Postwar Era; Chapter 5 Internationalization; Chapter 6 Migrant Workers in Japan; Part 2 At the Median Level; Chapter 7 Centrality of Japanese Education; Chapter 8 Social Construction of Kikokushijo; Chapter 9 The Host Society; Part 3 At the Micro Level; Chapter 10 A Returnee Family; Chapter 11 Returnees and their School in Brussels; Chapter 12 The International Nanzan High and Middle School (Nanzan Kokusai Kootoo Gakkoo, Kokusai Chuugaku); Chapter 13 Conclusion;
Biography
Ching Lin Pang holds a BA in Oriental Philology and a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Catholic University of Leuven and an MA in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She has written on multicultural society, international migration and identity formation, and is currently FWO postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven.
