The Transnational Negotiation of Selfhood, Motherhood and Wifehood: The Subjectivities of Japanese Women through Oyako-Ryūgaku in Hawaii

The existing scholarship on middle and upper-class East Asian transnational families accompanying their children to English-speaking countries has mainly focused on long-term transnational migration pattern. However, we know less about the short-term pattern, and how it affects the subjectivities of...

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Published inAsian and Pacific migration journal : APMJ Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 451 - 474
Main Authors Igarashi, Hiroki, Yasumoto, Saori
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.12.2014
Subjects
Asians
Family
Hawaii
International migration
Migration research
Motherhood
Self
Students
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Summary:The existing scholarship on middle and upper-class East Asian transnational families accompanying their children to English-speaking countries has mainly focused on long-term transnational migration pattern. However, we know less about the short-term pattern, and how it affects the subjectivities of migrants. By conducting a case study of Japanese women participating in oyako-ryūgaku (a short-term parent-child study abroad trip) with their children in Hawaii, we demonstrate how they constructed their transnational gendered subjectivities. We argue that not only motherhood and selfhood, but also wifehood is actively negotiated among the short-term transnational mothers through oyako-ryūgaku.
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ISSN:0117-1968
2057-049X
DOI:10.1177/011719681402300407