ISBN:
9780520944596
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (299 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.48/89921052163
Keywords:
Women Social conditions
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Women Social conditions
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Women History
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Women household employees
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Women foreign workers
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Foreign workers, Philippine
;
Foreign workers, Philippine ; Japan
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Women ; Japan ; History
;
Women ; Japan ; Social conditions
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Women ; Philippines ; Social conditions
;
Women foreign workers ; Japan
;
Women household employees ; Japan
;
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Abstract:
This groundbreaking study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars-where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners-came to be identified by the local residents as "ideal, traditional Japanese brides."Intimate Encounters, an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a "zone of encounters," showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. Intimate Encounters provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Zones of Encounters Map -- Introduction: Relations of Cultural Production -- PART ONE - Figures of Desires -- Chapter 1: Sites of Encounter -- Chapter 2: America and Other Stories of Filipina Migration to Japan -- Chapter 3: Japan in the Kiso Valley, the Kiso Valley in Japan -- PART TWO - Terms of Relations -- Chapter 4: Kindred Subjects -- Chapter 5: The Pressures of Home -- Chapter 6: Runaway Stories -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Registered Philippine Nationals in Central Kiso by Year (1981-1999) -- Appendix B: Registered Philippine Nationals in Japan on Entertainer Visas by Year (1980-2006) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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