Race and Migration in Imperial Japan

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-86768-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series

A high degree of cultural and racial homogeneity has long been associated with Japan, with its political discourse and with the lexicon of post-war Japanese scholarship. This book examines underlying assumptions. The author provides an analysis of racial discourse in Japan, its articulation and re-articulation over the past century, against the background of labour migration from the colonial periphery. He deconstructs the myth of a `Japanese race'.
Michael Weiner pursues a second major theme of colonial migration; its causes and consequences. Rather than merely identifying the `push factors', the analysis focuses on the more dynamic `pull factors' that determined immigrant destinations. Similarly, rather than focusing upon the immigrant, the author examines the structural need for low-cost temporary labour that was filled by Korean immigrants.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weiner, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 Race, nation and empire; Chapter 2 Migration: first phase; Chapter 3 Some consequences of Cultural Rule; Chapter 4 Migration, 1925–1938; Chapter 5 Assimilation and opposition; Chapter 6 The mobilisation of Koreans during the Second World War; Chapter 7 The limits of assimilation;

Über Autor(innen)

Micheal Weiner- Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield.