Southern Alberta Okinawan diaspora (1907-present): the kika nisei journey of Naoko Shimabukuro

dc.contributor.authorTamayose, Darcy Jaye
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorFujiwara, Gideon
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-21T22:25:31Z
dc.date.available2021-01-21T22:25:31Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.descriptionOkinawan Canadian researchen_US
dc.description.abstractIn 1907 a group of 152 Okinawans came to Canada as a labour diaspora marked for the Canadian Pacific Railway. This would be the largest group from Okinawa to enter the country for in 1908 the Hayashi-Lemieux Agreement would restrict immigration from Japan. This thesis examines the kika nisei journey of Naoko Shimabukuro whose grandfather was one of those Okinawan migrants who came to settle in southern Alberta. Through Naoko’s lens the research will address this lesser-studied experience within Okinawan diasporic scholarship and fill a lacuna that exists in the experiential representation specific to this prairie region of Canada. I investigate and contribute to Okinawan Canadian research through: 1) connection between the geographies of southern Alberta and Hamahiga Island; 2) Naoko’s eye witness account of the Battle of Okinawa during the prewar, wartime, and postwar periods; and 3) Canadian sansei self-reflexive exploration of generational cultural transference and related critical thought.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5836
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subject0342en_US
dc.proquest.subject0385en_US
dc.proquest.subject0561en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Historyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectkika niseien_US
dc.subjectOkinawan diasporaen_US
dc.subjectRyukyuansen_US
dc.subjectimmigrants to southern Albertaen_US
dc.subjectBattle of Okinawaen_US
dc.subjectHamahiga Islanden_US
dc.subjecteyewitness account of waren_US
dc.subjectchildhood experience of waren_US
dc.subjectShimabukuro Tamayose, Naoka, 1935- -- Interviewsen_US
dc.subjectShimabukuro Tamayose, Naoka, 1935- -- Biographyen_US
dc.subjectRyukyuans -- Alberta, Southern -- Historyen_US
dc.subjectRyukyuans -- Alberta, Southern -- Biographyen_US
dc.subjectRyukyuan Islands -- Emigration and immigrationen_US
dc.subjectJapanese Canadians -- Alberta, Southern -- Historyen_US
dc.subjectJapanese diasporaen_US
dc.subjectImmigrants -- Alberta, Southern -- Historyen_US
dc.subjectJapan -- Emigration and immigration -- Historyen_US
dc.subjectAlberta -- Emigration and immigration -- Historyen_US
dc.subjectWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Islanden_US
dc.subjectJapanese Canadian women -- Biographyen_US
dc.subjectChildren of immigrants -- Alberta, Southern -- Historyen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.titleSouthern Alberta Okinawan diaspora (1907-present): the kika nisei journey of Naoko Shimabukuroen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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