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Japanese New York: Migrant Artists and Self-Reinvention on the World Stage

Japanese New York: Migrant Artists and Self-Reinvention on the World Stage

Sooudi, Olga Kanzaki

Hardcover

American Art - Asian-AmericanAsian American StudiesImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0824839412
ISBN13: 9780824839413
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: Oct 31 2014
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Spend time in New York City and, soon enough, you will encounter some of the Japanese nationals who live and work there--young English students, office workers, painters, and hairstylists. New York City, one of the world's most vibrant and creative cities, is also home to one of the largest overseas Japanese populations in the world. Among them are artists and designers who produce cutting-edge work in fields such as design, fashion, music, and art. Part of the so-called creative class and a growing segment of the neoliberal economy, they are usually middle-class and college-educated. They move to New York for anywhere from a few years to several decades in the hope of realizing dreams and aspirations unavailable to them in Japan. Yet the creative careers they desire are competitive, and many end up working illegally in precarious, low paying jobs. Though they often migrate without fixed plans for return, nearly all eventually do, and their migrant trajectories are punctuated by visits home.

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