Japanese-American Research Project (JARP): a Three-Generation Study, 1890-1966

Levine, Gene N.

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“…Pre-1924 immigration is part of the definition for inclusion in the Japanese American population in the Japanese American Research Project (JARP), a foundational historical and sociological data source completed in the 1960s. JARP coprincipal investigators Levine and Rhodes (1981) state, "Our study limits itself to pre-1924 immigrants and their progeny, although we speculate later on the communal consequences of this new blood from Japan (mostly war brides)" (3). While Japanese immigration was reopened in 1952, postwar Japanese immigrants, shin-issei, go largely unnoticed by academic scholarship as well as the grand narrative.…”

Section: Pre-1924 Immigration Roots and Generational Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Their nisei, second-generation, children were generally born between the years 1918 and 1940 followed by the sansei (third generation), and yonsei (fourth generation) (Levine & Rhodes 1981;Glenn 1988;Fugita & O'Brien 1994;Aihara 1998). Levine and Rhodes (1981) note how "these labels are used in everyday life by Japanese Americans in the United States" (7). Montero (1980), writing out of the same JARP data as Levine and Rhodes, underscores the narrative centrality of generational cohorts:…”

Section: Pre-1924 Immigration Roots and Generational Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…No generation receives more attention in the grand narrative than the nisei, second generation. For example, while JARP was a three-generational study, nisei were the most heavily sampled generation in the JARP data (Levine & Rhodes 1981). Within the JARP studies, the nisei also receive the most analytical attention.…”

Section: Nisei Protagonists World War II Internment and Military Sementioning

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“…6 Here, Fujita's Japanese American roots fit the grand narrative by stemming from before the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924. As the son of a sansei, Fujita can be identified as yonsei, or fourth-generation Japanese American, which mirrors the generational status of most Japanese Americans near his age (Levine & Rhodes 1981;Glenn 1988;Fugita & O'Brien 1994). Further matching the narrative, stories of Fujita often highlight his upbringing in Southern California, the epicenter of Japanese America.…”

Section: Telling the Right Story 229mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Telling the Right Story: Narrative as a Mechanism for Japanese American Ethnic Boundary Maintenance

Nakano

2017

Sociological Inquiry

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This study conceptualizes ethnic grand narrative, a comprehensive story of a people, as a mechanism for maintaining and policing ethnic community boundaries. Such symbolic boundaries are shaped through relational processes of negotiation and contestation: boundary work. Taking the case of Japanese Americans, I demonstrate that legitimate claim on community membership relies on more than common ancestry, as ethnicity usually implies. Through an examination of the newspaper discourse surrounding two Japanese American men, Scott Fujita and Lt. Ehren Watada, I find that the collective ethnic narrative serves to define ethnic community boundaries and is used as a reference point for individual narratives. Depending on the alignment between personal narratives and collective ethnic narratives, in terms of content and structure, determines an individual's legitimate claim on ethnic membership. Notwithstanding the continued value placed on perceived shared biological heritage, ethnic membership is better conceived of as a combination of both common ancestry and strong fit between personal and community narratives.

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Section: Pre-1924 Immigration Roots and Generational Identificationmentioning

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Section: Nisei Protagonists World War II Internment and Military Sementioning

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Telling the Right Story: Narrative as a Mechanism for Japanese American Ethnic Boundary Maintenance

Nakano

2017

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“…Finally, we have obtained survey data on more than four thousand Japanese respondents from the Japanese American Research Project (JARP), a three-generation sociological survey directed by UCLA sociologist Gene Levine (1997). The survey, sponsored by the Japanese American Citizens League, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Carnegie Corporation asked over 1,000 questions on a wide range of economic and social questions throughout the 1960s.…”

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The Causal Effect of Place: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment

Shoag

Carollo

2016

SSRN Journal

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Recent research has stressed the importance of long-run place effects on income and economic mobility, but the literature has struggled to isolate the causal impact of location. This paper provides new evidence on these effects using administrative data on over 100,000 Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II. Internees were conditionally randomly assigned to camps in seven different states and held for several years. Restitution payments paid in the early 1990s to the universe of surviving internees allow us to measure their locations and outcomes nearly half a century after the camp assignments. Using this unique natural experiment we find, first, that camp assignment had a lasting effect on individuals' long-term locations. Next, using this variation, we find large place effects on individual economic outcomes like income, education, socioeconomic status, house prices, and housing quality. People assigned to richer locations do better on all measures. Random location assignment affected intergenerational economic outcomes as well, with families assigned to more socially mobile areas (as designated by Chetty et al., 2014) displaying lower cross-generational correlation in outcomes. Finally, we provide evidence that assignment to richer places impacted people's values and political views, a new and intriguing mechanism through which place effects operate. Together, this new causal evidence on location effects has broad implications for urban economics, as well as potential policy implications for policymakers struggling to resettle and integrate large refugee or immigrant populations.

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Social Mobility Across the Pacific: An Analysis of Japanese Americans in the Continental United States

Kihara

2024

Demography

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The impact of immigrant parents’ premigration family background on their second-generation children residing in destination countries remains underexplored in the literature on historical social mobility. Using multigenerational historical survey records from the Japanese American Research Project, this study investigates the influence of premigration socioeconomic and cultural background of Japan-born grandparents and parents on the social mobility of second-generation Japanese Americans born in the continental United States in the early twentieth century. The analysis reveals the enduring effects of family premigration socioeconomic status, as indicated by occupation and education, and culture conducive to upward mobility, proxied by samurai ancestry, on second-generation Japanese Americans’ educational and income levels. These effects may extend back to their nonmigrant grandparents and possibly contrast with their European second-generation immigrant counterparts, who typically experienced upward mobility regardless of their family background. The results point to the critical role of origin-country socioeconomic status and culture in immigrant social mobility research, particularly for populations whose negative reception has hindered their resource access in their new countries.

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Japanese-American Research Project (JARP): a Three-Generation Study, 1890-1966

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Telling the Right Story: Narrative as a Mechanism for Japanese American Ethnic Boundary Maintenance

Telling the Right Story: Narrative as a Mechanism for Japanese American Ethnic Boundary Maintenance

The Causal Effect of Place: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment

Social Mobility Across the Pacific: An Analysis of Japanese Americans in the Continental United States

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