Table of Contents

Introduction: The Making of a Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific
1. From Citizens to Emigrants: The Japanese American Transnational Generation in the U.S.-Japan Borderlands
2. From Citizens to the Stateless: Migration, Exclusion, and Nisei Citizenship
3. From Citizens to Enemy Aliens: The "Kibei Problem" and Japanese American Loyalty During World War II
4. Beyond Two Homelands: Kibei Transnationalism in the Making of a Japanese American Diaspora
5. Between Two Empires: Nisei Citizenship and Loyalty in the Pacific Theater
6. Buried Wounds of the Secret Sufferers: Memory, History, and the Japanese American Survivors in the Nuclear Pacific
Epilogue:

About the Author

Michael R. Jin is Assistant Professor of History and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Reviews

"For far too long, Nisei with life experiences in Japan have been written out of Japanese American history. Michael R. Jin rescues them from the historical oblivion perpetuated by the nationalist narrative of singular loyalty. Based on in-depth bilingual research, Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless gives much deserved complexities to the experiences of forgotten Nisei beyond the label of 'disloyal' or helpless victims. A transnational history at its best!"
-Eiichiro Azuma, author of In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire
"Michael R. Jin has transformed Nisei transnationalism from anecdote to experience. This is an impressive achievement."
-Lon Kurashige, author ofTwo Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States