Abstract
This essay reviews the history of Japanese Canadians' political, economic, and cultural activism, primarily in the West Coast, before and after World War II, and elucidates how migration generated and shaped those activities and activism. Transnational migrants often have interests, priorities, and motives that differ from the interests of the nation-state. Furthermore, the migration itself creates space for alternative economic, political, and cultural activities that defy national borders and that critique the ideology of the nation-state. Migrants' interstitial lives should not be seen only in the light of alienation and exclusion from a nation-state, for through such lives migrants in different historical periods have administered creative and innovative political and/or economic agency. In order to see an in-between space as an active space, we first need to free ourselves from our nationalistic premises embedded in the field's main discourse.
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