Ayumi Takenaka
Biographic Data
| ID | 216617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayumi Takenaka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayumi |
| FAMILY NAME | Takenaka |
| SIGNATURE | TAKENAKA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bryn Mawr College, Center for the Study of Inequality and Social Stratification, Tohoku University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The paradox of diaspora engagement: A historical analysis of Japanese state-diaspora relations
States increasingly engage with diasporas. While diasporic ties are often sought in the name of shared culture or ancestry, such ties are selective and variable in reality, shaped by specific geopolitical contexts. In this paper, I examine why states engage with various diaspora communities differently by looking at the case of Japan. The Japanese state has recently rekindled its interest in cultivating ties with later-generation Japanese descend…
Gastro-politics: Culture, Identity and Culinary Politics in Peru
Nikkei Food' for Whom? Gastro-Politics and Culinary Representation in Peru
Peru is undergoing a gastronomic 'boom.' The government, together with the private sector, actively promotes 'its' food as an engine of growth and national unity and branding. One key component of this gastro-politics is the emergence of elite gastronomy, such as Nikkei food. Broadly defined as Peruvian and Japanese fusion food, Nikkei food is celebrated as emblematic of the nation's immigration history and rich ethnic diversity. Today, it is arg…
Immigrant integration through food: Nikkei cuisine in Peru
In this paper, I use the lens of food to analyze immigrant integration, focusing on Nikkei cuisine, a type of Japanese ‘fusion’ food that emerged in the context of Japanese immigrants’ integration in Peru. Through the process of culinary transformation and food discourse in Peru, my aim is to analyze how a new genre of cuisine emerges and what it tells us about immigrant integration. I illustrate this by focusing on Nikkei Peruvians, or later-gen…
Negative Assimilation: How Immigrants Experience Economic Mobility in Japan
This paper examines the economic mobility of foreign migrants in Japan. In a country that is largely regarded as homogeneous and closed to outsiders, how and to what extent do immigrants achieve economic success? A survey conducted by the authors revealed that the conventional assimilationist perspective does not fully explain immigrants’ economic success in Japan. Migrants from the West experience what Chiswick and Miller (2011) refer to as “neg…
The Rise and Fall of Diasporic Bonds in Japanese‐Peruvian “Return” Migration
Two decades after Japanese‐Peruvians and other South Americans of Japanese descent began to migrate back to Japan, the return‐migration phenomenon has ended. Induced by the Japanese government in the name of shared ethnicity, Japanese policymakers now largely regard return migration as a failed policy. It failed because return‐migrants did not, in the view of policy‐makers, assimilate, integrate, or “make it” in Japan as expected. Thus, once‐imag…
How Contexts of Reception Matter: Comparing Peruvian Migrants’ Economic Trajectories in Japan and the US
This paper examines how Peruvian migrants fare economically in two historically and culturally distinct host countries, Japan and the US , drawing upon a survey and interviews conducted in both countries. Peruvian migrants surveyed share similar socio‐economic backgrounds and migrated to both countries for similar reasons roughly around the same time. Yet, over time, they achieved more occupational upward mobility in the US than in Japan. Japan h…
Demographic Challenges for the 21st Century: Population Ageing and the Immigration 'Problem' in Japan
Determinants of Emigration: Comparing Migrants' Selectivity from Peru and Mexico
Although Latin American migrants to the United States, particularly Mexicans, are typically portrayed as poor and uneducated, some, such as Peruvians, are disproportionately well educated compared to those who never left their countries. This article examines who emigrates and why by comparing migrants' selectivity from Mexico and Peru. Using the Peruvian data of the Latin American Migration Project (LAMP), collected in five communities in Lima b…
Peruvian Migration in a Global Context
Artiklen introducerer et særnummer af tidsskriftet med en præsentation af, hvordan peruansk udvandring er forløbet i de sidste 20 år, og en kort diskussion af, hvad har drevet den, og hviike migrationsmål, den har rettet sig mod
Leaving to Get Ahead: Assessing the Relationship between Mobility and Inequality in Peruvian Migration
Analysis of the impact of international migration on the socioeconomic conditions of migrants and their families in Peru, using data from the Latin American Migration Project, suggests that international migration contributes to individuals' socioeconomic well-being. While those who migrate tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds in the first place, they gain further relative economic advantage by moving out of the country. A possible…
How diasporic ties emerge: Pan-American Nikkei communities and the Japanese state
This paper examines the development of global ethnic ties, focusing on pan-American Nikkei activities among later-generation descendants of Japanese immigrants. How do diasporic ties emerge across countries, and how are ties mobilized? Who promotes, and participates in, this process? Pan-American Nikkei activities emerged neither as a by-product of shared ancestry or experience nor as a result of continuous ties to their ancestral homeland. Inste…
The Changing Japanese Family
The Japanese in Latin America
This book provides an overview of the Japanese in Latin America, covering the period from the late nineteenth century through the present. Japanese immigrants in Latin America, states the author, have largely maintained a low profile until the election of Alberto Fujimori in 1990; the goal of the book, therefore, is to make them “more familiar and better understood” (p. 290). Using a variety of sources in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanes…
Global Japan: The Experience of Japan's New Immigrant and Overseas Communities
Part I: Comparative Context Part II: Japanese Overseas Communities Part III: Japan's New Migrant Groups
The Japanese in Peru: History of Immigration, Settlement, and Racialization
The mechanisms of ethnic retention: Later-Generation Japanese immigrants in Lima, Peru
This paper examines how and why an ethnic community perpetuates itself over generations, drawing on ethnographic research conducted among later-generation Japanese-Peruvians in Lima, Peru. After their 100-year-long presence in Peru, Japanese-Peruvians, now mostly in their second and third generations, are highly acculturated. They are also integrated economically, and now politically - as exemplified by the election of Alberto Fujimori as the fir…
Transnational Community and Its Ethnic Consequences: The Return Migration and the Transformation of Ethnicity of Japanese Peruvians
This article examines the consequences of transnational community formation for immigrants' communities and ethnic identity. Focusing on a culturally, nationally, and racially mixed group of Japanese Peruvians who are dispersed across Peru, Japan, and the United States, the author examines how their communities and ethnic identity are transformed as a consequence of their migrations and transnational ties. During ethnographic fieldwork in their c…
Determinants of Emigration: Comparing Migrants' Selectivity from Peru and Mexico
Although Latin American migrants to the United States, particularly Mexicans, are typically portrayed as poor and uneducated, some, such as Peruvians, are disproportionately well educated compared to those who never left their countries. This article examines who emigrates and why by comparing migrants' selectivity from Mexico and Peru. Using the Peruvian data of the Latin American Migration Project (LAMP), collected in five communities in Lima b…
Transnational Community and Its Ethnic Consequences: The Return Migration and the Transformation of Ethnicity of Japanese Peruvians
This article examines the consequences of transnational community formation for immigrants' communities and ethnic identity. Focusing on a culturally, nationally, and racially mixed group of Japanese Peruvians who are dispersed across Peru, Japan, and the United States, the author examines how their communities and ethnic identity are transformed as a consequence of their migrations and transnational ties. During ethnographic fieldwork in their c…
The Japanese in Peru: History of Immigration, Settlement, and Racialization
Negative Assimilation: How Immigrants Experience Economic Mobility in Japan
This paper examines the economic mobility of foreign migrants in Japan. In a country that is largely regarded as homogeneous and closed to outsiders, how and to what extent do immigrants achieve economic success? A survey conducted by the authors revealed that the conventional assimilationist perspective does not fully explain immigrants’ economic success in Japan. Migrants from the West experience what Chiswick and Miller (2011) refer to as “neg…
Immigrant integration through food: Nikkei cuisine in Peru
In this paper, I use the lens of food to analyze immigrant integration, focusing on Nikkei cuisine, a type of Japanese ‘fusion’ food that emerged in the context of Japanese immigrants’ integration in Peru. Through the process of culinary transformation and food discourse in Peru, my aim is to analyze how a new genre of cuisine emerges and what it tells us about immigrant integration. I illustrate this by focusing on Nikkei Peruvians, or later-gen…
Peruvian Migration in a Global Context
Artiklen introducerer et særnummer af tidsskriftet med en præsentation af, hvordan peruansk udvandring er forløbet i de sidste 20 år, og en kort diskussion af, hvad har drevet den, og hviike migrationsmål, den har rettet sig mod
How diasporic ties emerge: Pan-American Nikkei communities and the Japanese state
This paper examines the development of global ethnic ties, focusing on pan-American Nikkei activities among later-generation descendants of Japanese immigrants. How do diasporic ties emerge across countries, and how are ties mobilized? Who promotes, and participates in, this process? Pan-American Nikkei activities emerged neither as a by-product of shared ancestry or experience nor as a result of continuous ties to their ancestral homeland. Inste…
How Contexts of Reception Matter: Comparing Peruvian Migrants’ Economic Trajectories in Japan and the US
This paper examines how Peruvian migrants fare economically in two historically and culturally distinct host countries, Japan and the US , drawing upon a survey and interviews conducted in both countries. Peruvian migrants surveyed share similar socio‐economic backgrounds and migrated to both countries for similar reasons roughly around the same time. Yet, over time, they achieved more occupational upward mobility in the US than in Japan. Japan h…
Leaving to Get Ahead: Assessing the Relationship between Mobility and Inequality in Peruvian Migration
Analysis of the impact of international migration on the socioeconomic conditions of migrants and their families in Peru, using data from the Latin American Migration Project, suggests that international migration contributes to individuals' socioeconomic well-being. While those who migrate tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds in the first place, they gain further relative economic advantage by moving out of the country. A possible…
The paradox of diaspora engagement: A historical analysis of Japanese state-diaspora relations
States increasingly engage with diasporas. While diasporic ties are often sought in the name of shared culture or ancestry, such ties are selective and variable in reality, shaped by specific geopolitical contexts. In this paper, I examine why states engage with various diaspora communities differently by looking at the case of Japan. The Japanese state has recently rekindled its interest in cultivating ties with later-generation Japanese descend…
The Rise and Fall of Diasporic Bonds in Japanese‐Peruvian “Return” Migration
Two decades after Japanese‐Peruvians and other South Americans of Japanese descent began to migrate back to Japan, the return‐migration phenomenon has ended. Induced by the Japanese government in the name of shared ethnicity, Japanese policymakers now largely regard return migration as a failed policy. It failed because return‐migrants did not, in the view of policy‐makers, assimilate, integrate, or “make it” in Japan as expected. Thus, once‐imag…
Gastro-politics: Culture, Identity and Culinary Politics in Peru
Nikkei Food' for Whom? Gastro-Politics and Culinary Representation in Peru
Peru is undergoing a gastronomic 'boom.' The government, together with the private sector, actively promotes 'its' food as an engine of growth and national unity and branding. One key component of this gastro-politics is the emergence of elite gastronomy, such as Nikkei food. Broadly defined as Peruvian and Japanese fusion food, Nikkei food is celebrated as emblematic of the nation's immigration history and rich ethnic diversity. Today, it is arg…
The mechanisms of ethnic retention: Later-Generation Japanese immigrants in Lima, Peru
This paper examines how and why an ethnic community perpetuates itself over generations, drawing on ethnographic research conducted among later-generation Japanese-Peruvians in Lima, Peru. After their 100-year-long presence in Peru, Japanese-Peruvians, now mostly in their second and third generations, are highly acculturated. They are also integrated economically, and now politically - as exemplified by the election of Alberto Fujimori as the fir…
Transnational Community and Its Ethnic Consequences: The Return Migration and the Transformation of Ethnicity of Japanese Peruvians
This article examines the consequences of transnational community formation for immigrants' communities and ethnic identity. Focusing on a culturally, nationally, and racially mixed group of Japanese Peruvians who are dispersed across Peru, Japan, and the United States, the author examines how their communities and ethnic identity are transformed as a consequence of their migrations and transnational ties. During ethnographic fieldwork in their c…
The mechanisms of ethnic retention: Later-Generation Japanese immigrants in Lima, Peru
This paper examines how and why an ethnic community perpetuates itself over generations, drawing on ethnographic research conducted among later-generation Japanese-Peruvians in Lima, Peru. After their 100-year-long presence in Peru, Japanese-Peruvians, now mostly in their second and third generations, are highly acculturated. They are also integrated economically, and now politically - as exemplified by the election of Alberto Fujimori as the fir…
The Japanese in Peru: History of Immigration, Settlement, and Racialization
Global Japan: The Experience of Japan's New Immigrant and Overseas Communities
Part I: Comparative Context Part II: Japanese Overseas Communities Part III: Japan's New Migrant Groups
The Changing Japanese Family
The Japanese in Latin America
This book provides an overview of the Japanese in Latin America, covering the period from the late nineteenth century through the present. Japanese immigrants in Latin America, states the author, have largely maintained a low profile until the election of Alberto Fujimori in 1990; the goal of the book, therefore, is to make them “more familiar and better understood” (p. 290). Using a variety of sources in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanes…
How diasporic ties emerge: Pan-American Nikkei communities and the Japanese state
This paper examines the development of global ethnic ties, focusing on pan-American Nikkei activities among later-generation descendants of Japanese immigrants. How do diasporic ties emerge across countries, and how are ties mobilized? Who promotes, and participates in, this process? Pan-American Nikkei activities emerged neither as a by-product of shared ancestry or experience nor as a result of continuous ties to their ancestral homeland. Inste…
Determinants of Emigration: Comparing Migrants' Selectivity from Peru and Mexico
Although Latin American migrants to the United States, particularly Mexicans, are typically portrayed as poor and uneducated, some, such as Peruvians, are disproportionately well educated compared to those who never left their countries. This article examines who emigrates and why by comparing migrants' selectivity from Mexico and Peru. Using the Peruvian data of the Latin American Migration Project (LAMP), collected in five communities in Lima b…
Peruvian Migration in a Global Context
Artiklen introducerer et særnummer af tidsskriftet med en præsentation af, hvordan peruansk udvandring er forløbet i de sidste 20 år, og en kort diskussion af, hvad har drevet den, og hviike migrationsmål, den har rettet sig mod
Leaving to Get Ahead: Assessing the Relationship between Mobility and Inequality in Peruvian Migration
Analysis of the impact of international migration on the socioeconomic conditions of migrants and their families in Peru, using data from the Latin American Migration Project, suggests that international migration contributes to individuals' socioeconomic well-being. While those who migrate tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds in the first place, they gain further relative economic advantage by moving out of the country. A possible…
How Contexts of Reception Matter: Comparing Peruvian Migrants’ Economic Trajectories in Japan and the US
This paper examines how Peruvian migrants fare economically in two historically and culturally distinct host countries, Japan and the US , drawing upon a survey and interviews conducted in both countries. Peruvian migrants surveyed share similar socio‐economic backgrounds and migrated to both countries for similar reasons roughly around the same time. Yet, over time, they achieved more occupational upward mobility in the US than in Japan. Japan h…
Demographic Challenges for the 21st Century: Population Ageing and the Immigration 'Problem' in Japan
The Rise and Fall of Diasporic Bonds in Japanese‐Peruvian “Return” Migration
Two decades after Japanese‐Peruvians and other South Americans of Japanese descent began to migrate back to Japan, the return‐migration phenomenon has ended. Induced by the Japanese government in the name of shared ethnicity, Japanese policymakers now largely regard return migration as a failed policy. It failed because return‐migrants did not, in the view of policy‐makers, assimilate, integrate, or “make it” in Japan as expected. Thus, once‐imag…
Negative Assimilation: How Immigrants Experience Economic Mobility in Japan
This paper examines the economic mobility of foreign migrants in Japan. In a country that is largely regarded as homogeneous and closed to outsiders, how and to what extent do immigrants achieve economic success? A survey conducted by the authors revealed that the conventional assimilationist perspective does not fully explain immigrants’ economic success in Japan. Migrants from the West experience what Chiswick and Miller (2011) refer to as “neg…
Immigrant integration through food: Nikkei cuisine in Peru
In this paper, I use the lens of food to analyze immigrant integration, focusing on Nikkei cuisine, a type of Japanese ‘fusion’ food that emerged in the context of Japanese immigrants’ integration in Peru. Through the process of culinary transformation and food discourse in Peru, my aim is to analyze how a new genre of cuisine emerges and what it tells us about immigrant integration. I illustrate this by focusing on Nikkei Peruvians, or later-gen…
Gastro-politics: Culture, Identity and Culinary Politics in Peru
Nikkei Food' for Whom? Gastro-Politics and Culinary Representation in Peru
Peru is undergoing a gastronomic 'boom.' The government, together with the private sector, actively promotes 'its' food as an engine of growth and national unity and branding. One key component of this gastro-politics is the emergence of elite gastronomy, such as Nikkei food. Broadly defined as Peruvian and Japanese fusion food, Nikkei food is celebrated as emblematic of the nation's immigration history and rich ethnic diversity. Today, it is arg…
The paradox of diaspora engagement: A historical analysis of Japanese state-diaspora relations
States increasingly engage with diasporas. While diasporic ties are often sought in the name of shared culture or ancestry, such ties are selective and variable in reality, shaped by specific geopolitical contexts. In this paper, I examine why states engage with various diaspora communities differently by looking at the case of Japan. The Japanese state has recently rekindled its interest in cultivating ties with later-generation Japanese descend…
Political science (16 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works)