Estudios Migratorios Latinamericanos
Volume 29, Issue 78-79, 2015, Pages 129-155
Between subject and citizen. An approach to the formation of the discursive identity of the pre-war Japanese immigrant in Argentina [Entre súbdito y ciudadano. Aproximación a la conformación de la identidad discursiva del inmigrante japonés de preguerra en la Argentina] (Article)
Gavirati P.
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Abstract
This work analyzes the identity of Japanese immigrants to Argentina through the analysis of key issues surrounding the interpretation of the period 1930-1945. Our research hypothesis is built around the positioning of the original and "new" identities along the reproduction-Transformation axis, understood as the opposition of a "subject-identity" reproduced by an imperial Japan vis-A-vis a new "citizen-identity " in the republican Argentina. The key findings show that reproduction of the original identity happens mostly among those involved in forced migration, especially due to high poverty in Japan and particularly among Okinawan immigrants. Conversely, immigrants who left their country in a voluntary fashion show a "hyphenated Japanese-Argentinian discursive identity.
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ISSN: 03267458
Original Language: Spanish