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Race and Migration in the Transpacific

Yasuko Takezawa editor Akio Tanabe editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:25th Nov '22

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Looking at a range of cases from around the Transpacific, the contributors to this book explore the complex formulations of race and racism emerging from transoceanic migrations and encounters in the region.

Asia has a history of ceaseless, active, and multidirectional migration, which continues to bear multilayered and complex genetic diversity. The traditional system of rank order between groups of people in Asia consisted of multiple “invisible” differences in variegated entanglements, including descent, birthplace, occupation, and lifestyle. Transpacific migration brought about the formation of multilayered and complex racial relationships, as the physically indistinguishable yet multifacetedly racialized groups encountered the hegemonic racial order deriving from the transatlantic experience of racialization based on “visible” differences. Each chapter in this book examines a different case study, identifying their complexities and particularities while contributing to a broad view of the possibilities for solidarity and human connection in a context of domination and discrimination. These cases include the dispossession of the Ainu people, the experiences of Burakumin emigrants in America, the policing of colonial Singapore, and data governance in India.

A fascinating read for sociologists, anthropologists, and historians, especially those with a particular focus on the Asian and Pacific regions.

"This volume reveals that Japan, the scholars based there and those who study it, is at the center of transnational race studies."---Lon Kurashige, author of Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States

ISBN: 9781032210209

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 494g

266 pages