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Remittances and Returnees: The Cultural Economy of Migration in Ilocos
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 641–642.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Anita Beltran Chen Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 Remittances and Returnees: The Cultural Economy of Migration in Ilocos . Edited by Raul Pertierra . Quezon City : New Day Publishers . 1992 . Distributed by Cellar Book Shop, Detroit. xvii, 162 pp...
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Uncanny Hybridity and Nostalgia Politics in The Yellow Sea
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 729–750.
Published: 01 August 2017
... be called a “hierarchical nationhood.” The strategies of temporal displacement, this article contends, are employed in South Korean cinema and television dramas in order to contain the uncanny cultural difference embodied by these ethnic returnees. As a result, a certain sense of belatedness is inscribed...
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Japan's “International Youth”: The Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 929–931.
Published: 01 November 1991
...) has been a major social issue since the early 1970s, when Japan's overseas investment increased dramatically. Merry White, in her book The Japanese Overseas: Can They Go Home Again? (The Free Press, 1988), presented a very negative picture of returnees. Regarding Japan as a homogeneous society...
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Return Migration and Identity: A Global Phenomenon, A Hong Kong Case
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1122–1124.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of the cession of Hong Kong to the British Crown. The book argues that “Hong Kongers” have had a multilayered identity (British, Chinese, Hong Kong, or a mix thereof), to which other identities have been added lately—Australian, American, Canadian, and now “returnee.” The book investigates the configuration...
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The Japanese Overseas: Can They Go Home Again?
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (2): 406–407.
Published: 01 May 1989
... and experiences of returnees themselves but also on the response (both supportive and exclusionary) of returnees' kin, neighbors, teachers, and employers and the policies and attitudes of counseling services established to help returnees cope with reintegration into Japanese society. White discusses at length...
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Textiles and Industrial Transition in Japan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (1): 174–176.
Published: 01 February 1996
..." to the Japanese male. Yashiro Kyoko surveys the options available to "returnees" (kikokusbijo) who wish to maintain the second language they have learned during their residence outside Japan. She reports on specific aspects of several extracurricular programs of instruction, and summarizes the results of surveys...
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Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (1): 172–174.
Published: 01 February 1996
... force, represent a homogeneous "outsider" to the Japanese male. Yashiro Kyoko surveys the options available to "returnees" (kikokusbijo) who wish to maintain the second language they have learned during their residence outside Japan. She reports on specific aspects of several extracurricular programs...
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Coming Home to a Foreign Country: Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 580–581.
Published: 01 August 2022
... squeezed through the port city. It was a place where people from rural southern Fujian prepared themselves to get on boats for a life-changing migration, the first place where returnees accommodated themselves to life in China, where the wealthy among them invested in real estate and settled. It became...
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Nature and Identity in Canadian and Japanese Literature
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (2): 405–406.
Published: 01 May 1989
... focuses not only on the expectations and experiences of returnees themselves but also on the response (both supportive and exclusionary) of returnees' kin, neighbors, teachers, and employers and the policies and attitudes of counseling services established to help returnees cope with reintegration...
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Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 712–715.
Published: 01 November 2023
... their “right” to Taiwan's excellent national health insurance. Thanks to the high purchasing power of American earnings and assets, and the relatively lower cost of living in Taiwan, returnees can realize their “American” ideals of “independence” and “self-sufficiency” while, in actuality, depending heavily...
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Servants, Sirdars and Settlers: Indians in Mauritius, 1834—1874
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 249–251.
Published: 01 February 1998
... of the book, Carter examines the central role of time-expired laborers (returnees) and plantation gang bosses (sirdars) in securing recruits. In part because Mauritius, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, was not so distant from India, it was relatively easy for flows of migration, and with it of information...
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Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration, and Re-migration across China's Borders
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 998–1000.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Revolution. Consequently, they developed a unique identity as “refugee-returnees.” Chapter 3 examines Chinese middle-class and skilled immigrants in present-day Canada. Many face language barriers, underemployment, social alienation, and other integration problems. Reluctant to split their households...
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Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1065–1066.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and qiaofu as their wives, and guiqiao as the returnees to the People's Republic. The diverse case studies of Diaspora's Homeland illustrate how emigration was simultaneously networked and fractured. The first chapter is a diplomatic history of the Qing court's lifting of the emigration ban in 1893...
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Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1480–1482.
Published: 01 November 2008
...” in the media and literature, calling it that is quite misleading. Most “repatriates” originally were from South (not North) Korea or born in Japan (p. 173). In addition, this no-return, one-way migration divided many families and forced returnees to stay in North Korea, even though they found out that life...
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Die Kostüme des Nō-Theaters
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 928–929.
Published: 01 November 1991
... been a major social issue since the early 1970s, when Japan's overseas investment increased dramatically. Merry White, in her book The Japanese Overseas: Can They Go Home Again? (The Free Press, 1988), presented a very negative picture of returnees. Regarding Japan as a homogeneous society...
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Cosmopolitan Capitalism: Local State-Society Relations in China and India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 335–361.
Published: 01 May 2016
... . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press . Wang Huiyao , David Zweig , and Xiaohua Lin . 2011 . “ Returnee Entrepreneurs: Impact on China's Globalization Process .” Journal of Contemporary China 20 ( 70 ): 413 –31. Wang Jue , Shaoming Cheng , and Sukumar Ganapati . 2012...
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Politics the Japanese Way
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (2): 407–409.
Published: 01 May 1989
.... Have the agonizing personal dilemmas faced by returnees somehow lessened as their numbers have swelled? Are returnees still treated as "nearly pariah-like brokers" (p. 114)? However, it is in White's sensitive rendering of the crises faced by individual returnees (not the abstract agonies of society...
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Rise of the Brao: Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 524–526.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to Cambodia to join the Cambodian revolution. Gradually becoming disaffected by the extreme policies of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, the Brao returnees enjoined thousands of ethnic minority residents of northeast Cambodia to flee to Laos and Vietnam prior to the Khmer Rouge capture of Phnom Penh in 1975...
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Return Engagements: Contemporary Art's Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 757–759.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Cambodia's traumatic past as narratively overdetermined, Lê analyzes how Panh's and Nakasako's films both displace and reify Western mainstream representations. Chapter 2 engages Lê’s notion of “strategic cartographies,” focusing on “Việt Kiều” (overseas Vietnamese) artists and Sài Gòn returnees Sandrine...
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Presidential Address: Virtual Kinship, Real Estat, and Diaspora Formation—The Man Lineage Revisited
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 893–910.
Published: 01 November 2004
... years and then went back to Europe for another long stint of work; the career of a typical restaurant worker was twenty-two years. Returnees built increasingly elaborate, modern-style retirement homes of the type one now sees in the emigrant communities of rural Guangdong and Fujian (Johnson and Woon...
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