Europe's Invisible Migrants

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A m s t e r d a m U n i v e r s i t y P r e s s Europe's Invisible MigrantsEurope's Invisible Migrants Andrea L. Smith (ed.) Amsterdam University Press All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of this book. AcknowledgementsMost of the authors of this book first met at the April 9, 1999 conference, "Europe's Invisible Migrants: Consequences of the Colonists' 'Return,'" which was sponsored by the Institute of French Studies, New York University. Before that time, we had been working on our own, isolated from each other by geography and disciplinary boundaries.Once together, we quickly found that our research covered much common ground. Conference attendees commented on the multiple ways that the papers intersected, and suggested that this represented an exciting moment of convergence in academic scholarship, one that may even represent the emergence of a new field of study, and one that certainly merited consolidation into a common text. We thus embarked together on the longer project of developing this book. The Institute of French Studies, New York University, generously supported the initial conference. I thank Susan Carol Rogers for suggesting that I organize such a conference, and for her unflagging and intelligent counsel throughout my fellowship year at NYU in 1998-9. I also thank the other institute members, including Ed Berenson, Jay Hogge, Emmanuelle Saada, Muriel Darmon, as well as institute students, for their warm welcome and the dynamic esprit de corps that characterized my tenure there. I am grateful to Lafayette College, in particular the members of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, for the research leave that made that fellowship year possible, and for a second leave in fall 2001 that allowed me to bring this manuscript to publication. Lafayette College also provided financial assistance for manuscript preparation.I thank William Poulin-Deltour for his care in translating Jean-Jacques Jordi's chapter from the French. Caroline Brettell and Fred Cooper provided expert advice on all aspects of this project. Many colleagues generously assisted me in identifying potential conference 7 participants, in further honing the conference theme, or in reading draft chapters and the book prospectus, including Thomas Abercrombie, Gerard Althabe, Joëlle Bahloul, Thomas Beidelman, Peter Benda, Jonathan Boyarin, Renate Bridenthal, Robin Cohen, Colette Dubois, Kathryn Earle, Alison Leitch, Tony Judt, Ruth Mandel, Robert Moeller, Ceri Peach, Peter Romijn, Daniel Segal, Ionanni Sinanoglou, Steven Vertovec, and Thomas Wilson. I am grateful for their contributions, however I take responsibility for any shortcomings of the final volume. The book benefited from the assistance of Amsterdam University...

Diasporic Identity and Mourning: Commemorative Practices among Okinawan Repatriates from Colonial Micronesia

“…One of my contentions in this article is that Okinawan colonial migrants, who 'returned' to Okinawa after the war and decolonization, are diasporic subjects. Smith (2002a) calls the migrants of decolonization 'invisible migrants,' for despite their considerable scale and historical significance, they have garnered little scholarly attention or exerted little influence on theoretical development in migration studies. Two edited volumes, Europe's Invisible Migrants, edited by Smith (2002a), and Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France: Comparative Perspectives, edited by Borutta and Jansen (2016), contain some of the few comprehensive studies on postcolonial repatriates and returnees to Europe.…”

“…Taking a cue from recent scholarly works on the postcolonial migration of former colonists after the fall of empires (Borutta & Jansen 2016;Buettner 2016;Shimamura 2013;Smith 2002a;Tamanoi 2009;Watt 2009), this article examines the experiences of Okinawan repatriates from the Japanese mandate of Micronesia. More specifically, it focuses on the Northern Mariana Islands after World War II in relation to the 'migration of decolonization' (Smith 2002b: 26).…”