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This book considers the role of civilian workers on U.S. bases in
Okinawa, Japan and how transnational movements within East Asia
during the Occupation period brought foreign workers, mostly from
the Philippines, to work on these bases. Decades later, in a
seeming "reproduction of base labour", returnees of both Okinawan
and Philippine heritage began occupying jobs on base as United
States of Japan (USFJ) employees. The book investigates the role
that ethnicity, nationality, and capital play in the lives of these
base employees, and at the same time examines how Japanese and
Okinawan identity/ies are formed and challenged. It offers a
valuable resource for those interested in Japan and Okinawa, U.S.
military basing, migration, and mixed ethnicities.
Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on
Family, Work and Community focuses on women’s lived experiences
amid the pandemic, emphasising migrant labourers, ethnic
minorities, the poor and disenfranchised, the incarcerated, and
victims of gender-based violence, to explore the impact of the
pandemic on women. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted and
exacerbated pervasive gender inequalities in homes, schools and
workplaces in the developed world and the global south. Female
workers, particularly those from poor or ethnic minority
backgrounds, were often the first to lose their jobs amidst
unprecedented lay-offs and economic uncertainty. National lockdowns
and widespread restrictions blurred the boundaries between work and
home life and increased the burden of domestic work on women within
patriarchal societies. This so-called ‘new normal’ in everyday
life also exposed women to increased levels of gender-based
violence and likelihood of contracting COVID-19 due to
overcrowding. This edited volume includes contributions from
leading applied and clinical sociologists working and living in
Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas and gives a global overview
of the impact of the pandemic on women. Each chapter adopts an
applied and clinical sociological approach in analysing gendered
vulnerabilities. The volume innovatively uses personal accounts,
including narratives, interviews, autoethnographies and focus group
discussions, to explore women’s lived experiences during the
pandemic. This edited collection will greatly interest students,
academics and researchers in the humanities and social sciences
with an interest in gender and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West
has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of
women whose lives followed a rather different path after they
married foreign occupiers. During Okinawa’s Occupation by the
Allies from 1945 to 1972, many Okinawan women met and had
relationships with non-Western men who were stationed in Okinawa as
soldiers and base employees. Most of these men were from the
Philippines. Zulueta explores the journeys of these women to their
husbands’ homeland, their acculturation to their adopted land,
and their return to their native Okinawa in their late adult years.
Utilizing a life-course approach, she examines how these women
crafted their own identities as first-generation migrants or
“Issei” in both the country of migration and their natal
homeland, their re-integration to Okinawan society, and the role of
religion in this regard, as well as their thoughts on end-of-life
as returnees. This book will be of interest to scholars looking at
gender and migration, cross-cultural marriages, ageing and
migration, as well as those interested in East Asia, particularly
Japan/Okinawa.
The phenomenon of "war brides" from Japan moving to the West has
been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of
women whose lives followed a rather different path after they
married foreign occupiers. During Okinawa's Occupation by the
Allies from 1945 to 1972, many Okinawan women met and had
relationships with non-Western men who were stationed in Okinawa as
soldiers and base employees. Most of these men were from the
Philippines. Zulueta explores the journeys of these women to their
husbands' homeland, their acculturation to their adopted land, and
their return to their native Okinawa in their late adult years.
Utilizing a life-course approach, she examines how these women
crafted their own identities as first-generation migrants or
"Issei" in both the country of migration and their natal homeland,
their re-integration to Okinawan society, and the role of religion
in this regard, as well as their thoughts on end-of-life as
returnees. This book will be of interest to scholars looking at
gender and migration, cross-cultural marriages, ageing and
migration, as well as those interested in East Asia, particularly
Japan/Okinawa.
This book considers the role of civilian workers on U.S. bases in
Okinawa, Japan and how transnational movements within East Asia
during the Occupation period brought foreign workers, mostly from
the Philippines, to work on these bases. Decades later, in a
seeming "reproduction of base labour", returnees of both Okinawan
and Philippine heritage began occupying jobs on base as United
States of Japan (USFJ) employees. The book investigates the role
that ethnicity, nationality, and capital play in the lives of these
base employees, and at the same time examines how Japanese and
Okinawan identity/ies are formed and challenged. It offers a
valuable resource for those interested in Japan and Okinawa, U.S.
military basing, migration, and mixed ethnicities.
Human mobility has been a widely examined phenomenon in the social
sciences, and in this increasingly globalized world migration
continues to be of significant concern. The chapters comprising
this volume on Thinking Beyond the State address the need to think
beyond prevailing state discourses in problematizing human
movements between Japan and the Philippines, by focusing on the
presence of other actors involved in these processes. This
collection investigates a range of issues that are part and parcel
of the migration experience: citizenship and nationality, migrant
incorporation and integration, human security, migrant welfare,
philanthropy, identity, and multiculturalism. The editor and
contributors aim to inform the larger public of the realities that
are embedded in this particular phenomenon, as well as engage
academics involved in migration studies. The book will be a
valuable resource to those with professional interests in the East
Asian region, most particularly in Japan and the Philippines.
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