Author(s): Ayaka Yoshimizu and Saeko Suzuki
Description:
Sex and Migration in the Transpacific Underground is an open educational resource that engages transpacific histories of interracial sex, intimate labour, and migration—that is, the undercurrent of imperial expansion and settler colonialism in the pacific region throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
The website brings together various archival materials that include multimodal stories and portrayals of individuals involved in the transnational and interracial sex trade. While these materials do not provide us with a comprehensive and coherent narrative about the lives of these individuals, and hardly centre their own voices, they create a space to imagine the historically underrepresented lives of those who survived and died in the transpacific underground economy.
All the primary sources selected for this website were originally produced in Japanese and we present them with English translation. The modules are offered in both languages. New primary sources in different Asian languages and modules will be added in the future to further multiply, complicate, and unsettle the narratives of modernization and nation-state building.
Item Type:
Web Resource
Subject Area:
Humanities
Faculty/Department:
Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Social Sciences
License Type:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NonDerivavtive 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Audience:
General Education; Undergraduate Lower Division; Undergraduate Upper Division; Graduate; Professional; Faculty
Technical Format:
- Website/HTML/XHTML
- Video
Language:
English, Japanese
Development Location:
UBCV
Related Resources:
Funding Affiliation:
UBCO OER Fund
Author Supplied-Keywords:
transnational migration; sex trade; intimate labour; transpacific history; Japanese primary sources
