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Marriage Migrants of Japanese Women in Australia - Remoulding Gendered Selves in Suburban Community (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Marriage Migrants of Japanese Women in Australia - Remoulding Gendered Selves in Suburban Community (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book investigates the experience of Japanese women who have
immigrated to Australia through marriage to a local partner. Based
on long-term participant observations gathered with a Japanese
ethnic association in Sydney, and on in-depth interviews with the
association's members, it examines the ways in which the women
remould themselves in Australia by constructing gendered selves
that reflect their unique migratory circumstances through
cross-border marriage. In turn, the book argues that the women tend
to embrace expressions of Japanese femininity that they once viewed
negatively, and that this is due to their lack of social skills and
access to the cultural capital of mainstream Australian society.
Re-molding the self through conventional Japanese notions of gender
ironically provides them with a convincing identity: that of
minority migrant women. Nevertheless, by analyzing these women's
engagement with a Japanese ethnic association in a suburb of
Sydney, the book also reveals a nuanced sense of ambivalence; a
tension between the women's Japanese community and their lives in
Australia. Accordingly, the book provides a fresh perspective on
interdisciplinary issues of gender and migration in a globalized
world, and engages with a wide range of academic disciplines
including: sociology of migration; sociology of culture; cultural
anthropology; cultural studies; Japanese studies; Asian studies;
gender studies; family studies; migration studies and qualitative
methodologies.
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