However, there is little or no academic research in English that addresses this new immigrant population, known as Shin-Issei. This paper investigates how Shin-Issei who live their lives in a complex space between the two nation-states of Japan and the U.S. negotiate their ethnic identity by...
The article discusses the demography of the Japanese American community, which includes the shin Issei, or newly arrived Japanese immigrants, and the U.S.-born Nikkei, in Southern California from 1940s through the 2000s. An overview of the ethnic, racial and class identity of the Nikkei, ...