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Japanese and Okinawan Bolivians. Japanese Bolivians ( Spanish: Japonés Boliviano; Japanese: 日系ボリビア人, Nikkei Boribiajin) are Bolivians of Japanese ancestry or Japanese-born people who reside in Bolivia. History. Immigration from Ryukyus to Bolivia (1956)
Sep 22, 2006 · Taku Suzuki. This article chronicles the changing subject-positions of Okinawans in Bolivia from the 1950s to 1990s, who migrated to Colonia Okinawa, an agricultural settlement in the eastern Santa Cruz region, as sponsored migrants backed by the United States military administration and the Okinawan (Ryūkyū) government.
- Taku Suzuki
- 2006
May 30, 2010 · By Jimmy Langman. OKINAWA, Bolivia — Fifty-five years ago, 272 Japanese from Okinawa Island arrived in a remote corner of Bolivia’s Amazon rainforest in hopes of finding a better life. The resettlement was part of a United States-sponsored emigration plan, patterned in part after a controversial Japan-sponsored program that between the ...
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Aug 26, 2010 · In Embodying Belonging, Taku Suzuki traces the shifting identities among transnational Okinawan-Bolivians both in rural Bolivia and in Yokohama, Japan. Suzuki focuses on discursive and other practices through which Okinawan-Bolivians construct gendered, class-related and cultural identities in essentialized, naturalized and embodied terms, or ...
- James E. Roberson
- 2011
Racializing narratives and performances ideologically serve as both a cause and result of Okinawan-Bolivians’ social and economic status as successful large-scale farm owners in rural Bolivia and struggling manual laborers in urban Japan.
Jan 8, 2006 · The main road of Okinawa 1, the first and largest settlement, reveals little evidence of a Japanese presence, with Bolivian mestizos of European and indigenous heritage running its shops and...
Jun 30, 2010 · This chapter outlines the modern history of the Okinawan diaspora in three sections: (i) the history of Okinawan immigration to Bolivia in the prewar and postwar periods; (ii) the foundation...
