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Steven M. Ropp


Steven Masami Ropp holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), especially interested in the intersections between race, ethnicity, and nationalism. He is the author of numerous academic publications and is currently a professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at California State University, Northridge. He has conducted research on Chinese immigration in Belize, on institutional changes in the Peruvian-Japanese community in the 1990s, and currently studies indigenous political mobilization in the Central Andes of Peru.

Last updated January 2008


Stories from This Author

Globalización y familia transnacional Nikkei

Jan. 9, 2008 • Steven M. Ropp

Introducción En 1999, el año del centenario de la inmigración japonesa al Perú, un dirigente nikkei peruano declaró públicamente que esa era una “era dorada” para la colectividad nikkei. Esta pequeña pero importante minoría, por mucho tiempo reconocida por su éxito en términos de educación y negocios, en una década logró un rol bastante prominente en la política. En el ámbito económico, unas cuantas empresas de familias nikkei lograron establecer una presencia a nivel nacional, a lo que se sumó …

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