Takeyuki Tsuda
Biographic Data
| ID | 103108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Takeyuki Tsuda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Takeyuki |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsuda |
| SIGNATURE | TSUDA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6300-8419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 215 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Resisting Monoracialization: The Struggle for Multiraciality among Mixed-Race Asians in the U.S
Valuing Asian-Ness, Eschewing Whiteness: Ethnic Hierarchies and the Relative Salience of Minority Ethnicities Among Mixed-Race Asians in the United States
Based on 44 in-depth interviews with a diverse sample of mixed-race Asians in the United States (who are a mixture of Asian and non-Asian ancestries), this article argues that their multiracial identifications reflect a hierarchy of ethnic desirability. Asian and Latinx heritages were positively regarded by interviewees as the most culturally distinctive and interesting with ethnically inclusive communities, whereas African American ethnicity was…
Subverting monoracial hegemony? The multiracial identities of mixed-race Asians in the United States
Cross-border im/mobility of skilled migrants from the U.S. to China: A capital-mobility framework
The number of skilled migrants moving from the Global North to the Global South has been increasing in recent decades. This paper develops and employs a capital-mobility framework to analyze empirical evidence about the new international migration of skilled U.S. migrants to the Pearl River Delta Region of China. Guided by the literature on im/mobility and capital, this paper asks the following questions: What affects skilled U.S. migrants' mobil…
Racism without racial difference? Co-ethnic racism and national hierarchies among Nikkeijin ethnic return migrants in Japan
Although immigrant minorities in Western countries are often racialized as culturally different, Japanese Americans and Brazilians who “return” migrate to their ancestral homeland of Japan are initially racialized as culturally similar Japanese-descent Nikkeijin. Nonetheless, these ethnic return migrants are eventually deemed culturally foreign because they have been living for generations abroad. As a result, they are hierarchically ordered by n…
What makes hegemonic masculinity so hegemonic? Japanese American men and masculine aspirations
Research on ‘hegemonic masculinity’ needs to more specifically examine its hegemonic properties by analysing how masculine ideals embodied by white men have become pervasive and widely-accepted by men of colour through their voluntary compliance and consent. This paper analyses the influence of hegemonic masculinity on the lives of Japanese American men. Because they have adopted hegemonic masculinity as an idealised standard that they aspire to,…
I Don't Feel Very Asian American: Why Aren't Japanese Americans More Panethnic
Because Japanese Americans are among the oldest Asian American groups, they would be expected to have a high level of panethnicity since they apparently have much in common with other U.S.-born Asian Americans. However, most Japanese Americans interviewed for this paper did not identify panethnically with their Asian co-ethnics, but felt separate and distinct as Japanese Americans. Research on panethnicity has not sufficiently examined why some A…
Living Transnationally between Japan and Brazil: Routes Beyond Roots, Sarah Lebaron von Baeyer (2020)
Review of: Living Transnationally between Japan and Brazil: Routes Beyond Roots , Sarah Lebaron von Baeyer (2020) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 256 pp., ISBN 978-1-49858-036-6, h/bk, $100
Diasporic Homecomings: Ethnic Return Migration in Comparative Perspective
Diasporic Returns to the Ethnic Homeland: The Korean Diaspora in Comparative Perspective
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019. This book examines Korean cases of return migrations and diasporic engagement policy. The study concentrates on the effects of this migration on citizens who have returned to their ancestral homeland for the first time and examines how these experiences vary based on nationality, social class, and generational status. The project’s primary audience includes academics and policy makers with a…
Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan by Mieko Nishida
Reviewed by: Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan by Mieko Nishida Takeyuki Tsuda (bio) Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan. By Mieko Nishida. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2018. xvi, 294 pages. $68.00. Diaspora and Identity is perhaps the most comprehensive book about Japanese Brazilian history available today. The first part of the book covers the history of the Japanese who migrated…
Human Capital versus Social Capital A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Wages and Labor Market Incorporation in Japan and the United States
For the United States, the most commonly used model of immigrant labor-market incorporationanalyzes earnings largely as a function of human-capital variables. However,this simple model is not necessarily applicable cross-culturally and may lose much of itsexplanatory power in other societies, where immigrants encounter different labor-marketconditions. This article evaluates multivariate models of wage determination forsamples of foreign workers …
Japanese American Ethnicity: In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations
This book explores the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese Americans from the second to the fourth generations and the extent to which they remain connected to their ancestral cultural heritage. As one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States, most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated and well-integrated in mainstream American society. However, they continue to be racialized as culturally “Japanese” foreigners…
Migration and Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations
Migration and Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations
In this groundbreaking unifying theory of migration, a group of researchers from various anthropological disciplines attempt to identify the social and environmental disruptions that led to migration, regardless of its temporal space. Never before has such a diverse group of scholars met to identify and codify across time the reasons humans migrate
Is native anthropology really possible? (Respond to this article at https: (Www.therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-today/debate)
Although native anthropologists are often understood to be quite different from non‐native anthropologists, this paper argues that the distinction is not as clear as is often presumed. Both types of anthropologists are partial outsiders who are positioned at a relative distance from those they study in the field. This is illustrated with a discussion of the author's own fieldwork with Japanese Americans as a ‘native anthropologist’. Ultimately, t…
Recovering Heritage and Homeland: Ethnic Revival Among Fourth‐Generation Japanese Americans
In recent years, fourth‐generation Japanese American youth have been attempting to recover their ethnic heritage and reconnect with their ancestral homeland. This ethnic revival is a response to their continued racialization as “Japanese,” which has caused them to become concerned about their overassimilation to American society in an era of multiculturalism where cultural heritage and homeland have come to be positively valued. As a result, they…
Locating the Global in Transnational Ethnography
I'm American, not Japanese: The struggle for racial citizenship among later-generation Japanese Americans
As one of the oldest Asian American groups in the USA, most Japanese Americans are of the third and fourth generations and have become well integrated in mainstream American society. However, they are still racialized as foreigners simply because of their Asian appearance. Their Asian phenotype continues to have a foreigner connotation because of large-scale immigration from Asia and an American national identity that is racially defined as white…
Diasporas without a consciousness: Japanese Americans and the lack of a Nikkei identity
Some scholars have recently suggested that the concept of diaspora should be regarded as a type of identity or consciousness instead of as a transnational ethnic community. While it is undeniable that some dispersed ethnic populations identify as diasporic peoples, older “economic diasporas“ sometimes have lost their transnational social cohesion and do not have a diasporic consciousness. I illustrate this by examining the experiences of Japanese…
Whatever Happened to Simultaneity? Transnational Migration Theory and Dual Engagement in Sending and Receiving Countries
The transnationalism literature has focused on the transborder social networks that immigrants in the receiving country maintain with their sending countries and has not sufficiently examined how such transborder connections enable them to become simultaneously engaged in both nation-states. This paper argues that simultaneity is an important part of transnationalism that distinguishes it from long-distance nationalism. We therefore need to more …
"Disconnected from the "Diaspora: Japanese Americans and the Lack of Transnational Ethnic Networks
Recent scholarship often assumes that peoples of Japanese descent scattered throughout the Americas (the Nikkei) are one of the world’s diasporas. This paper argues that dispersed ethnic groups should not be considered diasporic unless they have maintained social connections with each other across national borders as members of a transnational ethnic community. By using the Japanese Americans as a case study, I analyze how they are no longer real…
Exporting Japan: Politics of Emigration to Latin America (review)
Ethnic return migration and the nation-state: Encouraging the diaspora to return ‘home
Countries of immigration are generally faced with a dilemma: they wish to accept immigrants for economic purposes, but also to restrict immigration for ethnonational reasons. This is especially true in ethnic nation-states, where immigration is seen as a threat to ethnonational unity more than in civic nation-states. However, in recent decades, various ethnic nation-states have adopted immigration policies that have encouraged their diasporic des…
When human capital does not matter: Local contexts of reception and immigrant wages in Japan
Whatever Happened to Simultaneity? Transnational Migration Theory and Dual Engagement in Sending and Receiving Countries
The transnationalism literature has focused on the transborder social networks that immigrants in the receiving country maintain with their sending countries and has not sufficiently examined how such transborder connections enable them to become simultaneously engaged in both nation-states. This paper argues that simultaneity is an important part of transnationalism that distinguishes it from long-distance nationalism. We therefore need to more …
Ethnic return migration and the nation-state: Encouraging the diaspora to return ‘home
Countries of immigration are generally faced with a dilemma: they wish to accept immigrants for economic purposes, but also to restrict immigration for ethnonational reasons. This is especially true in ethnic nation-states, where immigration is seen as a threat to ethnonational unity more than in civic nation-states. However, in recent decades, various ethnic nation-states have adopted immigration policies that have encouraged their diasporic des…
Transnational Migration and the Nationalization of Ethnic Identity among Japanese Brazilian Return Migrants
By examining the ethnic experiences of Japanese Brazilian return migrants in Japan, this paper explores how the dislocations of migration can produce a form of deterritorialized nationalism in which national loyalties are articulated outside the territorial boundaries of the nation-state. The Japanese Brazilians respond to their ethnic exclusion in Japan, as well as their negative experiences with Japanese cultural behavior and discrimination, by…
The Permanence of "Temporary" Migration: The "Structural Embeddedness" of Japanese-Brazilian Immigrant Workers in Japan
For many decades, Japan was the only advanced industrial country in the world that did not rely on unskilled foreign labor. For many observers, the Japanese case demonstrated that a country could fully industrialize and sustain high levels of economic growth without becoming dependent on large populations of immigrant workers. Instead of importing immigrants, Japan was able to meet its increasing demand for unskilled labor power by effectively me…
Ethnicity and the Anthropologist: Negotiating Identities in the Field
In this article I address the problematic relationship between the anthropologist's self-identity and the fieldwork process through a self-reflexive discussion of my field experiences in a factory employing both and Japanese-Brazilian migrant workers. I examine how the constant and contested negotiation of identity between fieldworkers and informants influences rapport, acceptance, and differential access to ethnographic information. Because of t…
Acting Brazilian in Japan: Ethnic Resistance among Return Migrants
This article examines the performative enactment of a Brazilian nationalist identity among Japanese-Brazilian return migrants in Japan as a form of autonomous ethnic resistance against Japanese assimilative pressures. By appropriating and reconstituting Brazilians nationalist symbols abroad and by intentionally acting Brazilian the Japanese-Brazilians assert their cultural differences in Japan thereby engaging in an active struggle for ethnic rec…
The Motivation to Migrate: The Ethnic and Sociocultural Constitution of the Japanese-Brazilian Return-Migration System
I'm American, not Japanese: The struggle for racial citizenship among later-generation Japanese Americans
As one of the oldest Asian American groups in the USA, most Japanese Americans are of the third and fourth generations and have become well integrated in mainstream American society. However, they are still racialized as foreigners simply because of their Asian appearance. Their Asian phenotype continues to have a foreigner connotation because of large-scale immigration from Asia and an American national identity that is racially defined as white…
From Ethnic Affinity to Alienation in the Global Ecumene: The Encounter between the Japanese and Japanese-Brazilian Return Migrants
From Ethnic Affinity to Alienation in the Global Ecumene:The Encounter between the Japanese and Japanese-Brazilian Return Migrants1 Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda (bio) Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda University of California, San Diego Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda Takeyuki Tsuda received his doctorate in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently Associate Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of Cal…
The Stigma of Ethnic Difference: The Structure of Prejudice and "Discrimination" toward Japan's New Immigrant Minority
Takeyuki Tsuda, The Stigma of Ethnic Difference: The Structure of Prejudice and "Discrimination" toward Japan's New Immigrant Minority, The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer, 1998), pp. 317-359
When identities become modern: Japanese emigration to Brazil and the global contextualization of identity
Local immigrant histories cannot be truly understood unless they are contextualized within changing global conditions. The ethnic minority status and identity of the Japanese in Brazil have been historically constrained by Japan's changing position in the global order. Immigrants from Japan were officially accepted by the Brazilian government and treated with a certain respect in the early 1900s because of Japan's newly acquired global stature as…
Is native anthropology really possible? (Respond to this article at https: (Www.therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-today/debate)
Although native anthropologists are often understood to be quite different from non‐native anthropologists, this paper argues that the distinction is not as clear as is often presumed. Both types of anthropologists are partial outsiders who are positioned at a relative distance from those they study in the field. This is illustrated with a discussion of the author's own fieldwork with Japanese Americans as a ‘native anthropologist’. Ultimately, t…
I Don't Feel Very Asian American: Why Aren't Japanese Americans More Panethnic
Because Japanese Americans are among the oldest Asian American groups, they would be expected to have a high level of panethnicity since they apparently have much in common with other U.S.-born Asian Americans. However, most Japanese Americans interviewed for this paper did not identify panethnically with their Asian co-ethnics, but felt separate and distinct as Japanese Americans. Research on panethnicity has not sufficiently examined why some A…
Recovering Heritage and Homeland: Ethnic Revival Among Fourth‐Generation Japanese Americans
In recent years, fourth‐generation Japanese American youth have been attempting to recover their ethnic heritage and reconnect with their ancestral homeland. This ethnic revival is a response to their continued racialization as “Japanese,” which has caused them to become concerned about their overassimilation to American society in an era of multiculturalism where cultural heritage and homeland have come to be positively valued. As a result, they…
Locating the Global in Transnational Ethnography
"Disconnected from the "Diaspora: Japanese Americans and the Lack of Transnational Ethnic Networks
Recent scholarship often assumes that peoples of Japanese descent scattered throughout the Americas (the Nikkei) are one of the world’s diasporas. This paper argues that dispersed ethnic groups should not be considered diasporic unless they have maintained social connections with each other across national borders as members of a transnational ethnic community. By using the Japanese Americans as a case study, I analyze how they are no longer real…
Bringing Humanity Back into International Migration: Anthropological Contributions
Subverting monoracial hegemony? The multiracial identities of mixed-race Asians in the United States
Diasporas without a consciousness: Japanese Americans and the lack of a Nikkei identity
Some scholars have recently suggested that the concept of diaspora should be regarded as a type of identity or consciousness instead of as a transnational ethnic community. While it is undeniable that some dispersed ethnic populations identify as diasporic peoples, older “economic diasporas“ sometimes have lost their transnational social cohesion and do not have a diasporic consciousness. I illustrate this by examining the experiences of Japanese…
When human capital does not matter: Local contexts of reception and immigrant wages in Japan
Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan
The Stigma of Ethnic Difference: The Structure of Prejudice and "Discrimination" toward Japan's New Immigrant Minority
Takeyuki Tsuda, The Stigma of Ethnic Difference: The Structure of Prejudice and "Discrimination" toward Japan's New Immigrant Minority, The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer, 1998), pp. 317-359
Ethnicity and the Anthropologist: Negotiating Identities in the Field
In this article I address the problematic relationship between the anthropologist's self-identity and the fieldwork process through a self-reflexive discussion of my field experiences in a factory employing both and Japanese-Brazilian migrant workers. I examine how the constant and contested negotiation of identity between fieldworkers and informants influences rapport, acceptance, and differential access to ethnographic information. Because of t…
On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass
The Motivation to Migrate: The Ethnic and Sociocultural Constitution of the Japanese-Brazilian Return-Migration System
The Permanence of "Temporary" Migration: The "Structural Embeddedness" of Japanese-Brazilian Immigrant Workers in Japan
For many decades, Japan was the only advanced industrial country in the world that did not rely on unskilled foreign labor. For many observers, the Japanese case demonstrated that a country could fully industrialize and sustain high levels of economic growth without becoming dependent on large populations of immigrant workers. Instead of importing immigrants, Japan was able to meet its increasing demand for unskilled labor power by effectively me…
Transnational Migration and the Nationalization of Ethnic Identity among Japanese Brazilian Return Migrants
By examining the ethnic experiences of Japanese Brazilian return migrants in Japan, this paper explores how the dislocations of migration can produce a form of deterritorialized nationalism in which national loyalties are articulated outside the territorial boundaries of the nation-state. The Japanese Brazilians respond to their ethnic exclusion in Japan, as well as their negative experiences with Japanese cultural behavior and discrimination, by…
Acting Brazilian in Japan: Ethnic Resistance among Return Migrants
This article examines the performative enactment of a Brazilian nationalist identity among Japanese-Brazilian return migrants in Japan as a form of autonomous ethnic resistance against Japanese assimilative pressures. By appropriating and reconstituting Brazilians nationalist symbols abroad and by intentionally acting Brazilian the Japanese-Brazilians assert their cultural differences in Japan thereby engaging in an active struggle for ethnic rec…
From Ethnic Affinity to Alienation in the Global Ecumene: The Encounter between the Japanese and Japanese-Brazilian Return Migrants
From Ethnic Affinity to Alienation in the Global Ecumene:The Encounter between the Japanese and Japanese-Brazilian Return Migrants1 Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda (bio) Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda University of California, San Diego Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda Takeyuki Tsuda received his doctorate in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently Associate Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of Cal…
When identities become modern: Japanese emigration to Brazil and the global contextualization of identity
Local immigrant histories cannot be truly understood unless they are contextualized within changing global conditions. The ethnic minority status and identity of the Japanese in Brazil have been historically constrained by Japan's changing position in the global order. Immigrants from Japan were officially accepted by the Brazilian government and treated with a certain respect in the early 1900s because of Japan's newly acquired global stature as…
Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective
Since the late 1980s, Brazilians of Japanese descent have been "return" migrating to Japan as unskilled foreign workers. With an immigrant population currently estimated at roughly 280,000, Japanese Brazilians are now the second largest group of foreigners in Japan. Although they are of Japanese descent, most were born in Brazil and are culturally Brazilian. As a result, they have become Japan's newest ethnic minority. Drawing upon close to two y…
Bringing Humanity Back into International Migration: Anthropological Contributions
Local Citizenship and Foreign Workers in Japan
While Japan has a significant population of foreign workers, the national government has done little to provide citizenship rights or social services for them. In a number of cases, local municipalities and NGOs have stepped in to offer basic rights and social services to immigrants residing in their communities, leading to a type of local citizenship. If localities are emerging as important sites for the struggle for immigrant rights and social …
When human capital does not matter: Local contexts of reception and immigrant wages in Japan
Exporting Japan: Politics of Emigration to Latin America (review)
Ethnic return migration and the nation-state: Encouraging the diaspora to return ‘home
Countries of immigration are generally faced with a dilemma: they wish to accept immigrants for economic purposes, but also to restrict immigration for ethnonational reasons. This is especially true in ethnic nation-states, where immigration is seen as a threat to ethnonational unity more than in civic nation-states. However, in recent decades, various ethnic nation-states have adopted immigration policies that have encouraged their diasporic des…
Diasporas without a consciousness: Japanese Americans and the lack of a Nikkei identity
Some scholars have recently suggested that the concept of diaspora should be regarded as a type of identity or consciousness instead of as a transnational ethnic community. While it is undeniable that some dispersed ethnic populations identify as diasporic peoples, older “economic diasporas“ sometimes have lost their transnational social cohesion and do not have a diasporic consciousness. I illustrate this by examining the experiences of Japanese…
Whatever Happened to Simultaneity? Transnational Migration Theory and Dual Engagement in Sending and Receiving Countries
The transnationalism literature has focused on the transborder social networks that immigrants in the receiving country maintain with their sending countries and has not sufficiently examined how such transborder connections enable them to become simultaneously engaged in both nation-states. This paper argues that simultaneity is an important part of transnationalism that distinguishes it from long-distance nationalism. We therefore need to more …
"Disconnected from the "Diaspora: Japanese Americans and the Lack of Transnational Ethnic Networks
Recent scholarship often assumes that peoples of Japanese descent scattered throughout the Americas (the Nikkei) are one of the world’s diasporas. This paper argues that dispersed ethnic groups should not be considered diasporic unless they have maintained social connections with each other across national borders as members of a transnational ethnic community. By using the Japanese Americans as a case study, I analyze how they are no longer real…
Locating the Global in Transnational Ethnography
I'm American, not Japanese: The struggle for racial citizenship among later-generation Japanese Americans
As one of the oldest Asian American groups in the USA, most Japanese Americans are of the third and fourth generations and have become well integrated in mainstream American society. However, they are still racialized as foreigners simply because of their Asian appearance. Their Asian phenotype continues to have a foreigner connotation because of large-scale immigration from Asia and an American national identity that is racially defined as white…
Migration and Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations
Migration and Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations
In this groundbreaking unifying theory of migration, a group of researchers from various anthropological disciplines attempt to identify the social and environmental disruptions that led to migration, regardless of its temporal space. Never before has such a diverse group of scholars met to identify and codify across time the reasons humans migrate
Is native anthropology really possible? (Respond to this article at https: (Www.therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-today/debate)
Although native anthropologists are often understood to be quite different from non‐native anthropologists, this paper argues that the distinction is not as clear as is often presumed. Both types of anthropologists are partial outsiders who are positioned at a relative distance from those they study in the field. This is illustrated with a discussion of the author's own fieldwork with Japanese Americans as a ‘native anthropologist’. Ultimately, t…
Recovering Heritage and Homeland: Ethnic Revival Among Fourth‐Generation Japanese Americans
In recent years, fourth‐generation Japanese American youth have been attempting to recover their ethnic heritage and reconnect with their ancestral homeland. This ethnic revival is a response to their continued racialization as “Japanese,” which has caused them to become concerned about their overassimilation to American society in an era of multiculturalism where cultural heritage and homeland have come to be positively valued. As a result, they…
Sociology (29 works) · Political science (22 works) · Gender Studies (21 works) · Anthropology (20 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (20 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (17 works) · Ethnic group (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (13 works) · Japanese History and Culture (12 works)