Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
SHESC Themes: Culture, Heritage and Identity; Global Dynamics and Regional Interactions; Urban Societies
Field Specializations: International Migration, Diasporas, Ethnic Minorities, Ethnic and National Identity, Transnationalism and Globalization, Ethnic Return Migrants, the Japanese Diaspora in the Americas, Contemporary Japanese Society, Brazil
Regional Focus: Asia, North America, South America
Contact: Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda, MC 203K
Research:
After receiving his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1997 from the University of California at Berkeley, Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda was a collegiate assistant professor at the University of Chicago for three years before moving to the University of California at San Diego to become associate director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, where he helped establish and develop the center into a leading interdisciplinary, multinational research and training institute.
Tsuda has conducted comparative, multi-site field research on ethnic and immigrant minorities in various urban areas from a transnational, diasporic perspective with an emphasis on their socioeconomic marginalization, ethnonational identities, cultural practices and notions of home and homeland. He is particularly interested in examining how the experiences of ethnic minorities vary as they migrate across national borders and are situated in various local ethnoracial, political and social class contexts even as they increasingly become members of transnational and diasporic communities in a globalized world. He has also written on comparative immigration policy and immigrant urban citizenship.
For his dissertation research, Tsuda studied the ethnic return migration of Japanese Brazilians from Brazil to Japan as unskilled foreign workers and conducted close to two years of fieldwork in both countries. He is currently working on a project that compares the ethnopolitical reception and experiences of ethnic return migrants in their ancestral homelands in various European and East Asian countries. He has also begun fieldwork on a new project on the Japanese "diaspora" in the Americas that will compare the Japanese Americans and Japanese Brazilians in the varying ethnoracial contexts of the United States and Brazil and their experiences when they migrate to their ethnic homeland of Japan.
Research Projects:
Diasporic Homecomings: Ethnic Return Migrants in Comparative Perspective
Japanese Diaspora: Peoples of Japanese Descent in the Americas
Local Citizenship in Recent Countries of Immigration: Japan in Comparative Perspective
Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective
Teaching:
At the University of Chicago, Tsuda taught undergraduate interdisciplinary social theory courses, as well as an upper-division course on contemporary Japanese society. At the University of California at San Diego, he offered an upper-division course on the social and ethnic consequences of international migration. At ASU, Tsuda teaches undergraduate courses on Migration and Society, and Classics in Social Theory, and graduate courses on Global/Transnational Ethnography, Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology and Contemporary International Migration.
Select Publications:
Tsuda, T. (Ed.) (2009). Diasporic homecomings: Ethnic return migration in comparative perspective. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
Tsuda, T. (Ed.) (2006). Local citizenship in recent countries of immigration: Japan in comparative perspective. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
Romanucci-Ross, L., De Vos, G. & Tsuda. T. (2006). Ethnic identity: Problems and prospects for the 21st century. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press.
Cornelius, W. & Tsuda, T. (Eds.) (2004). Controlling immigration: A global perspective (second edition). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Tsuda, T. (2003). Strangers in the ethnic homeland: Japanese Brazilian return migration in transnational perspective. New York: Columbia University Press.
Tsuda, T. (2007). Bringing humanity back into international migration: Anthropological contributions. City and Society, 19(1), 19-35.
Tsuda, T. (2006). Localities and the struggle for immigrant rights: The significance of local citizenship in recent countries of immigration. In T. Tsuda (Ed.), Local citizenship in recent countries of immigration: Japan in comparative perspective (pp. 3-36). Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
Tsuda, T. (2006). The limits of local citizenship and activism in Japan and other recent countries of immigration. . In T. Tsuda (Ed.), Local citizenship in recent countries of immigration: Japan in comparative perspective (pp. 273-293). Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
Tsuda, T. (2005). When home is not the homeland: The case of Japanese Brazilian ethnic return migration". In F. Markowitz & A. Stefansson (Eds.), Homecomings: Unsettling paths of return. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
Cornelius, W. & Tsuda, T. (2004). Controlling immigration: The limits of government intervention." In W. A. Cornelius, T. Tsuda, P. L. Martin & J. F. Hollifield (Eds.), Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective (second edition) (pp. 3-48). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Tsuda, T. & Cornelius, W. (2004). Japan: Government policy, immigrant reality. In W. A. Cornelius, T. Tsuda, P. L. Martin & J. F. Hollifield (Eds.), Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective (second edition) (pp. 439-476). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Tsuda, T. (2003). Domesticating the immigrant other: Japanese media images of Nikkeijin return migrants." Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology, 42(4), 289-305.
Tsuda, T., Valdez, Z. & Cornelius, W. (2003). Human capital versus social capital: Immigrant wages and labor market incorporation in Japan and the United States." Migraciones Internacionales, 2(1):5-35.
Tsuda, T. (2002). From ethnic affinity to alienation in the global ecumene: The ethnic encounter between the Japanese and Japanese Brazilian return migrants." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 10(1):53-91.
Tsuda, T. (2001). When identities become modern: Japanese immigrants in Brazil and the global contextualization of identity." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 24(3):412-432.
