Informationen zum Autor Yuiko Fujita Klappentext Cultural Migrants from Japan examines how television, film, and the internet influences the mobility of young, middle-class Japanese youths who migrate to New York and London in order to 'make it' as artists. Intersecting long-term, multi-sited ethnography with emerging transnational and globalization theory, this book is a timely look at the emerging shift in concepts of national identity and migration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Media, Migration, and Multi-sited Ethnography Chapter 2 The "Imagined West" in Japan Chapter 3 Encountering "Race" and Ethnic Relations Chapter 4 Gendered Japaneseness: Negotiating Images of "Submissive" and "Easy" Women Chapter 5 Local Japanese Communities Chapter 6 Transnational Media, Mobility, and Imaging "Home" Chapter 7 Conclusion: National Identity and Transnationalism

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Yuiko Fujita

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Cultural Migrants from Japan examines how television, film, and the internet influences the mobility of young, middle-class Japanese youths who migrate to New York and London in order to 'make it' as artists. Intersecting long-term, multi-sited ethnography with emerging transnational and globalization theory, this book is a timely look at the emerging shift in concepts of national identity and migration.

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Media, Migration, and Multi-sited Ethnography
Chapter 2 The "Imagined West" in Japan
Chapter 3 Encountering "Race" and Ethnic Relations
Chapter 4 Gendered Japaneseness: Negotiating Images of "Submissive" and "Easy" Women
Chapter 5 Local Japanese Communities
Chapter 6 Transnational Media, Mobility, and Imaging "Home"
Chapter 7 Conclusion: National Identity and Transnationalism