A group of women from Okinawa went to Borneo to work in factories (such as canneries), whereas men went to work as fishermen. 『ボルネオに渡った沖縄の漁夫と女工』(望月雅彦著、ボルネオ史料研究室発行 2001年）
Website resulting from an undergraduate research project on Women and International Migration, Department of Political Science, St. Olaf College (Spring 2003).
"As part of the seminar, students create independent multimedia research projects that describe and analyze the gender implications of a local, national or international case study of global migration."
Gail M. Nomura, "Japanese American Women". In: Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History (Houghton Mifflin).
Paper delivered at the 1996 Association for Asian Studies Conference, Honolulu, Hawai'i.
"This paper will address the perseverance (shinbo) with which rural Issei women met unexpected challenges in this new country. It will focus on their reasons for coming to America, including arranged and picture bride marriages; disappointments they faced once they arrived; and their adjustments as they assumed multiple roles as wives, mothers and laborers. It will also examine the roots of Issei women's submissive behavior in Confucian "laws of obedience" learned early in Japan, and their awe in recognizing inequities in male-female roles once they arrived in America."