"Am I Japanese? Am I Nikkei?" An exploration of Yonsei and Gosei Japanese Canadian Identities
| dc.contributor.author | Nagasaki, Djuna | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-17T03:05:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-17T03:05:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | During the Second World War, thousands of Japanese Canadians, also referred to as Nikkei (i.e Japanese diaspora), were forcibly uprooted, dispossessed of their homes and belongings, and unjustly interned. As the shadow of internment continues to linger over Japanese Canadian families across the country, how has this history impacted the identities of the younger generations within the community? Through amplifying the voices of young Japanese Canadians, this project creates a deeper understanding of the identities and experiences of Yonsei and Gosei (i.e. fourth and fifth generation Nikkei), unpacking what it means to be Japanese Canadian or Nikkei. In applying a grounded, anthropological and qualitative approach, this project seeks to explore the complexities of Japanese Canadian/Nikkei identity through holding Japanese Canadian food gatherings as spaces of cultural healing and community building. This project also applies an auto-ethnographic approach, in which the personal experience of the researcher is used to navigate the identities and experiences of the participants. This project found that there is no solitary answer to the question, “What does it mean to be Japanese Canadian and Nikkei?” However, through conducting food gatherings, this project forges spaces of belonging, using food to connect participants to their pasts and one another. | |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Undergraduate | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/16181 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of Victoria | |
| dc.subject | Japanese-Canadian | |
| dc.subject | Nikkei, Collective Identity | |
| dc.subject | food gathering | |
| dc.subject | Japanese internment | |
| dc.subject | community | |
| dc.title | "Am I Japanese? Am I Nikkei?" An exploration of Yonsei and Gosei Japanese Canadian Identities | |
| dc.type | Poster |