Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan
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"Intimate Encounters is the first 'thick description' of the on-going changes wrought by the recent entry of a non-Japanese population, i.e., Filipina women, into rural Japanese life. It broadens and deepens our understanding of what it might mean to write transnational, diasporic histories."—Vicente L. Rafael, author of The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines"Intimate Encounters is fascinating on a topic both timely and important: cultural encounters at the crossroads of global capital, transnational migration, and national meaning-making. Examining the migratory travel routes of women struck by the desire or need to pursue greater prosperity elsewhere, Faier distinguishes her account by beautiful prose, deft ethnography, and a keen attentiveness to the role played by—and complexity of—desire."—Anne Allison, author of Millennial Monsters and Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan
List of Illustrations xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction: Relations of Cultural Production 1Part 1 Figures of Desires 331 Sites of Encounter 392 America and Other Stories of Filipina Migration to Japan 803 Japan in the Kiso Valley, the Kiso Valley in Japan 103Part 2 Terms of Relations 1334 Kindred Subjects 1375 The Pressures of Home 1586 Runaway Stories 190Epilogue 211Appendix A 219Appendix B 220Notes 221Bibliography 249Index 273
