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Faier, Lieba.

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On being oyomesan: Filipina migrants and their Japanese families in central Kiso.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	On being oyomesan: Filipina migrants and their Japanese families in central Kiso./
Author:	Faier, Lieba.
Description:	358 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-08, Section: A, page: 2951.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-08A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3102334

On being oyomesan: Filipina migrants and their Japanese families in central Kiso.
Faier, Lieba.

On being oyomesan: Filipina migrants and their Japanese families in central Kiso. - 358 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-08, Section: A, page: 2951.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003.

This dissertation explores an apparent paradox of cultural identity in contemporary Japan: How is it possible that Filipina migrants, who entered Japan to work as “entertainers” in hostess bars and who are widely disparaged as “prostitutes” and “foreigners,” have come to be recognized by rural townspeople as <italic>ii oyomesan</italic>, ideal traditional “Japanese” brides? To unravel this puzzle, this dissertation focuses on the lives of Filipina migrants and their Japanese families and communities in Central Kiso, a socially and economically marginalized region of mountain towns and villages in southwestern Nagano Prefecture. It is a feminist ethnography of cultural encounters among members of these groups, of what these encounters reveal about “Japan,” and of how meanings of “Japanese” and “Filipino” culture are articulated in and through them.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

On being oyomesan: Filipina migrants and their Japanese families in central Kiso.
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520 $a This dissertation explores an apparent paradox of cultural identity in contemporary Japan: How is it possible that Filipina migrants, who entered Japan to work as “entertainers” in hostess bars and who are widely disparaged as “prostitutes” and “foreigners,” have come to be recognized by rural townspeople as <italic>ii oyomesan</italic>, ideal traditional “Japanese” brides? To unravel this puzzle, this dissertation focuses on the lives of Filipina migrants and their Japanese families and communities in Central Kiso, a socially and economically marginalized region of mountain towns and villages in southwestern Nagano Prefecture. It is a feminist ethnography of cultural encounters among members of these groups, of what these encounters reveal about “Japan,” and of how meanings of “Japanese” and “Filipino” culture are articulated in and through them.
520 $a I argue that everyday encounters between Filipina migrants and Japanese residents are key sites where new cultural meanings and identities are dialogically negotiated and relationally produced through gender and kinship. Drawing on twenty-three months of ethnographic fieldwork in Japan and the Philippines, I focus on the intimate and fragile collaborations through which people marginalized in different ways, but through related processes, negotiate discrepant desires, stakes, and cultural meanings within unequal relations of power. Part One, “Figures of Desire,” historically and politically situates the desires that Filipina migrants and Central Kiso residents bring to their encounters. Part Two, “Terms of Relations,” tracks the resonances, misunderstandings, and gaps that emerge among their understandings of Filipinas' roles as <italic> oyomesan</italic> in their new communities.
520 $a As an ethnography of cultural encounters, this dissertation tracks the multiple, unequal, and productive ways that different forms of meaning and desire coincide and come into practice. It demonstrates how new cultural meanings and identities are constructed through partial translations and understandings that cut across different desires and agendas and sometimes meet at cross-purpose. As a feminist ethnography of Japan, this study speaks critically to the ways “Japanese culture” is articulated with ideas of gender, kinship, and locality. It looks to “Japan” not as a place, but as ongoing practices of inclusion and exclusion among variously sited people-in-relation, people who are both “Japanese” and “foreign.”
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