Transnational Identities, Communities, and the Experiences of Okinawan Internees and Prisoners of War

dc.contributor.author Chinen, Joyce
dc.date.accessioned 2018-11-21T19:42:04Z
dc.date.available 2018-11-21T19:42:04Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.description Modified from original accepted manuscript version to conform to ADA standards.
dc.description.abstract Okinawans, people from Japan’s poorest and last to be incorporated prefecture, faced unique challenges during World War II. Regarded as racially and culturally “different” from the rest of the Japanese population, but officially categorized as “Japanese” by Americans, Okinawans in Hawai'i inhabited a social space of shifting transnational identities and experiences. Depending upon the parsing, at least two broad and different subgroups of Okinawans experienced detention and imprisonment in Hawai'i. In the first group were local Okinawans, either Issei (first generation immigrants carrying Japanese passports) or Kibei (American-born offspring of the Okinawan immigrants who had been raised in Okinawa or on the main islands of Japan); in the second group were prisoners of war (POWs or PWs) taken in the Pacific Theater or as a result of the Battle of Okinawa. Since Okinawan experiences varied noticeably from other Japanese internees and other POWs, this article explores some of the factors contributing to their detention and eventual imprisonment, and the responses of the local Okinawan community.
dc.format.extent 26 pages
dc.identifier.citation Chinen, J. (2014) Transnational Identities, Communities, and the Experiences of Okinawan Internees and Prisoners of War. In S. Falgout and L. Nishigaya (Eds.), Breaking the Silence: Lessons of Democracy and Social Justice from the World War II Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp in Hawai‘i, vol. 44, (148-172).
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10790/4430
dc.language.iso en-US
dc.publisher University of Hawaiʻi Press
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dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subject Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp
dc.title Transnational Identities, Communities, and the Experiences of Okinawan Internees and Prisoners of War
dc.type Article
dc.type Book Chapter
dc.type.dcmi Text
prism.endingpage 172
prism.publicationname Social Process in Hawaii
prism.startingpage 148
prism.volume 44
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