Japanese Migrations to Australia

Transformation and Heterogeneity

Iori Hamada, Takeshi Hamano, Yoshikazu Shiobara

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040651001
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Index: Social Sciences

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

By offering an extensive and up-to-date analysis of migration trends, this book addresses a significant void in academic research. Structured into two parts, this book offers an in-depth exploration of various aspects of this migration. Firstly, by examining contemporary migration patterns including working holiday makers (WHMs), partnership-based migrants and Japanese–Australian youths, this book unsettles cultural essentialist and national exceptionalist narratives. Additionally, through investigations of Australian tourism, the role of Japanese restaurants in cultural exchange and the artistic expressions within the Nikkei Australian community, this book reveals the diverse contributions and interactions of Japanese communities in Australia and the bilateral influences of Japan. It also critically engages with the monolithic concept of 'community' through specific sectors and previously understudied groups including Japanese-Indigenous Australians and LGBTQ+ migrants, analysing how personal narratives align with or diverge from policy frameworks and offering new perspectives on identity and belonging in transnational contexts.

Combining empirical research with theoretical analysis, this book is not only an academic resource but also a useful reference for policymakers. By offering new perspectives and policy recommendations, it is an invaluable tool for understanding and adapting to the evolving patterns of Japanese migrations to Australia, making a substantial contribution to the fields of Japanese, migration and Australian studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: Reconceptualising Japanese Migrations to Australia—Post-Middle-Class Mobilities and Heterogeneous Global Pathways
• Part I Japanese Migrations to Australia: Their Angles and Trends
• 2 Uneven Cosmopolitanism: Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia and the ‘Lost Decade’1
• 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
• Part II Japanese Communities to Enrich Multicultural Australia
• 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 Australia1
• 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 Australia1
• 14 Conclusion: Between Nihonjin and Nikkeijin: Multiple Realities and Communities of Contemporary Japanese Migrants in Australia
• Index