A Precarious Home: Japanese American Incarceration, Citizenship, and Strategies for Belonging, 1940s-1960s

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dc.contributor.advisorWeisiger, Marsha
dc.contributor.authorWing, Olivia
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-27T22:31:56Z
dc.date.available2020-02-27T22:31:56Z
dc.date.issued2020-02-27
dc.description.abstractJapanese Americans on the West Coast experienced multiple losses of home before, during, and after their incarceration during World War II. Repeated and coerced migration and exclusion uprooted Japanese Americans from physical and imagined homes, characterizing their experience of belonging in the United States. Their continuing struggle to regain “home” is apparent in the continuing geographic, social, and legal displacement that many Japanese Americans experienced during the postwar period. This thesis explores the relationship between home and Japanese American identity—how identity influenced the “home” that they pursued, and how the stakes and longevity of incarceration clarified the boundaries of citizenship and belonging for them. Looking at incarceration as part of a long pattern of uprootedness allows insight to the way that repeated denial of Japanese American access to home and belonging was part of the experience of—and barriers to—conditional inclusion in the United States.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/25234
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectAsian Americanen_US
dc.subjectcitizenshipen_US
dc.subjecthomeen_US
dc.subjectincarcerationen_US
dc.subjectTule Lakeen_US
dc.subjectWorld War IIen_US
dc.titleA Precarious Home: Japanese American Incarceration, Citizenship, and Strategies for Belonging, 1940s-1960s
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of History
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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