Transnational Divorce: The Violation of Immigrant Japanese Mothers' Rights an the Hague Abduction Convention

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dc.contributor.advisorOikawa, Mona
dc.creatorNoguchi, Hiromi
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-28T14:50:41Z
dc.date.available2015-08-28T14:50:41Z
dc.date.copyright2014-08-19
dc.date.issued2015-08-28
dc.date.updated2015-08-28T14:50:41Z
dc.degree.disciplineCommunication & Culture, Joint Program with Ryerson University
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractAs a counterpoint to existing discussions of how Western fathers’ rights can be secured in the context of transnational divorce, this study raises the important question of how immigrant Japanese mothers’ fundamental rights can be protected. The voices of Japanese women have long been silenced in the context of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Through in-depth interviews with Japanese mothers who returned to Japan with their children (returned Japanese mothers), and divorced immigrant Japanese mothers who reside in Canada, this study analyzes the stories of the mothers in terms of the impact of immigration and transnational divorce on their social locations. Drawing on critical race scholarship, particularly interlocking theory, it critiques the Western construction of returned Japanese mothers as abductors and reveals the ways that their marginalization as non-English speaking, foreign-born women of colour is further entrenched through transnational divorce.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/29864
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subjectInternational law
dc.subjectGender studies
dc.subject.keywordsTransnational divorce
dc.subject.keywordsInternational Parental Child Abduction
dc.subject.keywordsThe Hague Convention and Japan
dc.subject.keywordsJoint child custody
dc.subject.keywordsJapan's sole custody
dc.subject.keywordsDomestic Violence
dc.subject.keywordsCritical Race Theory
dc.subject.keywordsInterlocking Analysis
dc.subject.keywordsIntersectionality
dc.subject.keywordsRacialization
dc.subject.keywordsInstitutional discrimination
dc.subject.keywordsInstitutional Racism
dc.subject.keywordsContemporary Orientalism
dc.subject.keywordsFlight Risk
dc.subject.keywordsHabitual Residence
dc.subject.keywordsGrave Risk
dc.subject.keywordsDefault Judgment
dc.subject.keywordsUndertakings
dc.subject.keywordsHague return order
dc.titleTransnational Divorce: The Violation of Immigrant Japanese Mothers' Rights an the Hague Abduction Convention
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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