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