Japanese Migrations to Australia

This book stands as the first comprehensive English-language scholarly book dedicated to the dynamic and multifaceted aspects of Japanese Migrations to Australia.

Iori Hamada is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of The Japanese Restaurant: Tasting the New Exotic in Australia (Routledge, 2024). She received the Institute of Social Science and Oxford University Press Best Paper Prize (2019) and the Endeavour Japan Award (2006) from the Government of Australia. Takeshi Hamano is a Professor of The University of Kitakyushu, Japan. He is also a research affiliate with the Center for Japanese Studies of the University of Michigan, USA. Yoshikazu Shiobara is a Professor of Keio University, Japan. His current research interests are multiculturalism and migration issues in Australia and Japan. He has authored numerous monographs and edited volumes, including Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan: Rethinking Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion (Routledge, 2020).

1. Introduction: Reconceptualising Japanese Migrations to Australia: Post-Middle-Class Mobilities and Heterogeneous Global Pathways 2. Uneven Cosmopolitanism: Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia and the 'Lost Decade' 3. Japanese Student Mobility to Australia: Distortions in Policy and Practice 4. Japanese Women's Partnership Migration to Australia: A Backdrop of the Resurgence of Japanese Migration to Australia after World War II 5. Journeys of Belonging: Mixed-race Japanese Australian Youth in a Mobile World 6. Conflict Narratives: Post-3/11 Japanese Migration to Australia and Life Afterwards 7. Teaching Japanese as a Community Language in Australia: Insights from Educators and their Beliefs 8. Re-imagining Japan-Australia Relations Through Tourism: An Examination of the Backgrounds and Strategies of Daikyo's Resort Development in Cairns 9. 'Gastro-Cool': Japanese Restaurants in Urban Australia, 1950s-2023 10. Nikkei Australia: A Creative Cultural Community 11. Fusion Food: Japanese Ancestry and the Meaning Making of Food in Coastal Broome, Western Australia 12. Crossing Borders, Redefining Identities: Japanese LGBTQ+ Migration to Australia 13. Gendered Sub-politics in the Civil Society: Profiling Political Culture of Japanese Community in Australia 14. Conclusion: Between Nihonjin and Nikkeijin: Multiple Realities and Communities of Contemporary Japanese Migrants in Australia