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Concluding remark
12020-01-13T08:54:14-05:00Hiroko Matsudadcd719582014fb85f4ce73292fca95ce698fbfa9354plain2020-08-14T19:10:33-04:00Hiroko MatsudaKandra Polatis4decfc04157f6073c75cc53dcab9d25e87c02133Conclusion: Everyday LiminalityThe border between the Japanese nation and its colony initiated the human movement from Yaeyama to Taiwan. Whereas it was not uncommon that individual Yaeyama isladers spontaneously migrated to Taiwan, numerous islanders migrated there with the family members. Some of them gave birth in Taiwan, and others brought their children at very young age. The second and third generation of the Yaeyama immigrants shaped very different identities from the first generation. Their home was not Yaeyama, but colonial Taiwan, although they were labelled as "Okinawans" all together. Okinawans were the active agency of making, maintaining, and shifting the border and boundaries, but I should note that the Okinawan immigrants consisted of people with diverse age and social backgrounds.
