Lindsey Sasaki

lindseysasaki

Lindsey Sasaki, a yonsei, specializes in cross-cultural exchange and training with an emphasis on international migration, ethnic identity, and Latin America. Her research focuses on the Japanese diaspora in Brazil and Peru and the Latin American communities in Japan. In particular, Sasaki attempts to explore how the international flow of young adult Japanese Brazilian university students and factory workers to Japan transforms their individual lives and group membership and how ethnicity and identity boundaries shift and are reconstructed under distinct social, economic, and political contexts. Sasaki is a faculty member and Ph.D candidate in the international education program at New York University. She received her B.A. in international relations with a minor in Spanish at Pomona College.

Updated December 2011

community en ja es pt

Discover Nikkei: Contributions to the XVI COPANI Conference 2011 - Part 3 of 3

By Lindsey Sasaki
30 Dec 2011

Read part 2 >>

COPANI CONFERENCE

At the COPANI conference, there was an adult program and a separate youth program. The roundtables/workshops were divided into five forums on Friday: 1) Nikkei Professionals and Entrepreneurs, 2) Nikkei Community, 3) Nikkei Youth, 4) Nikkei Culture, and 5) Nikkei Institutions and into two forums on Saturday: 1) Nikkei Entrepreneurs and 2) Japanese Culture Through Soft Power. Panelists discussed topics and themes that ranged from the Dekasegi situation to Taiko in Brazil to the maintenance and sustainability of Japanese language schools in Mexico to the role of Nikkei professionals.

Discover Nikkei presented one workshop ...

community en ja es pt

Discover Nikkei: Contributions to the XVI COPANI Conference 2011 - Part 2 of 3

By Lindsey Sasaki
23 Dec 2011

Read part 1 >>

The results presented at the COPANI conference were from the five countries with the most respondents: the United States, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and Chile. The majority of respondents from the United States were from Southern California. For the Latin American countries, responses were primarily from cities with large Nikkei communities: São Paulo, Brazil; Lima, Peru; Mexico City, Mexico; and Viña del Mar, Chile.

Here are some of the most popular results from the survey to our open-ended questions on culture, community, and identity:

Q. What is the most popular “Nikkei” food in your community?

Q ...

community en ja es pt

Discover Nikkei: Contributions to the XVI COPANI Conference 2011 - Part 1 of 3

By Lindsey Sasaki
16 Dec 2011

Discover Nikkei conducted a pilot international survey about Nikkei communities and identities in North America, South America, and Japan. It was the first time that Discover Nikkei launched a survey on an international scale. The results were presented at the XVI Convention of the Association of Pan American Nikkei (COPANI) meeting in Cancún, México from September 1-3, 2011. The theme of the XVI conference was “PORQUE SER NIKKEI NO ES SER DIFERENTE, SINO EL QUE HACE LA DIFERENCIA” (Because being Nikkei is not being different, but making the difference).

The Discover Nikkei project celebrates cultural diversity and aims ...

Submit an article

Discover Nikkei

Japanese migrants and their descendants

Lindsey Sasaki

Discover Nikkei: Contributions to the XVI COPANI Conference 2011 - Part 3 of 3

Discover Nikkei: Contributions to the XVI COPANI Conference 2011 - Part 2 of 3

Discover Nikkei: Contributions to the XVI COPANI Conference 2011 - Part 1 of 3

Featured Articles

Japanese Grocery Stores: An Appreciation

Immigration—Missing Link in Japanese History: Why Are There So Many Okinawan Immigrants? – Part 1

Nikkei Chronicles #5 — Nikkei-go: The Language of Family, Community, and Culture

Gaijin

The 150th Anniversary of Wakamatsu Colony, the First Japanese American Settlement on the North American Frontier

Part 1: Pioneers Who Brought Their Hopes and Dreams

Recent Articles en

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

What spirits whisper...

Counteracting 'Invisibility' Within the JA Community

Nikkei Chronicles #8 — Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

The Family of Shinjiro Dote and Pre-WWII Japanese of El Dorado County, CA.

Kikou Yamata: Rediscovering the First Nisei Writer

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #4 Horsemen of the Holidays: "Stress Time..."

Recent Articles JA ES PT

Nikkei Chronicles #8 — Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

Mi oba, ¡qué mejor inspiración!

Nikkei Chronicles #8 — Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

Heróis: sonho, trabalho e transformação

孤独な望郷 ～ フロリダ日系移民森上助次の手紙から

第18回 京都へ帰ったときには……

Nikkei Chronicles #8 — Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

Cynthia: Mil grullas, una flor de cerezo y la fugacidad de la vida

創立110周年迎えた北米沖縄県人会 — 全米各地や沖縄から人々が集う

Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

Get updates

Support this project

A project of the

Major support by

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

What spirits whisper...

Counteracting 'Invisibility' Within the JA Community

Nikkei Chronicles #8 — Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

The Family of Shinjiro Dote and Pre-WWII Japanese of El Dorado County, CA.

Kikou Yamata: Rediscovering the First Nisei Writer

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #4 Horsemen of the Holidays: "Stress Time..."

Nikkei Chronicles #8 — Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

My Hero: Shinya Honda

Giotta Fuyo Tajiri — An Artist's Voyage

Nikkei View

I've heard "Go back where you came from" too often

New San Jose Uzumaru Dance Group Blends Traditional and Modern Japanese Dance

The Summer of the Gun

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #2 Arms, 2 Legs, 1 Tail: "Octopus Arms Next?..."

Nikkei Chronicles #8 — Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

2 Presidents, 2 Senators, 2 Moms…and 2 Dads, too

Tule Lake History Passed on from Father to Son: Iwao and Hiroshi Shimizu

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Only 7 Sins? Hardly: "Inhumane Humanity..."

Shinkichi Tajiri and the Paradoxes of Japanese American Identity

Nikkei Chronicles #8 — Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

The Hero I Never Met

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Since 1997: "Alternative Sports..."

Nikkei Chronicles #8 — Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

A Full Immersion in Today’s LA (Area) Japanese American Community

An Activist’s dilemma: the life of Katsuma Mukaeda

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Forrest Gump's I.Q. was 75: "But He Wasn't Stupid..."

Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago

The Japanese Consulate and Naka & Pearl Nakane - Part 2

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

Body

Yellow Bowls And The Ugly Wartime History They Symbolize

Stepping over the Color Line: Nikkei at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Yoemon Shinmasu – My Grandfather's Life in Seattle

Part 4 – Sending children to Japan

Thieving Guards, Mass Food Poisoning, and Other Facts of Life in Fresno Assembly Center

Unearthing one family's history

5 Artists Who Explore Japanese-American Incarceration and Internment

孤独な望郷～フロリダ日系移民森上助次の手紙から

第18回京都へ帰ったときには……