(Re)constructing Identities: International Marriage Migrants as Potential Agents of Social Change in a Globalising Japan¹Footnote1

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Asian Studies Association of Australia's (ASAA) Biennial Conference in Hobart on 1 July 2002. I am grateful to Ross Mouer, Robyn Spence-Brown, Lyn Parker, Penny Kinnear, Tomoko Nakamatsu, and in particular Elise Tipton and the two Asian Studies Review referees for comments on earlier drafts. I would also like to acknowledge the support of the Monash University Postgraduate Publications Award in the preparation of the manuscript. This paper is adapted from a larger work (CitationBurgess, 2003).

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