An invisible minority? Return migration and ethnicity in OkinawaFootnote^*

* An earlier version of this paper (entitled ‘Okinawa's invisible minority: The case of the Philippine Uchinȃnchu Nisei’) was presented at the SIETAR Kansai meeting on 6 July 2013 at Ryukoku University Umeda Campus, Osaka. A small part of the earlier version of the paper was presented as ‘Being half in the context of empire’, at a relay talk at the ‘International symposium: Between and beyond two empires (Part I)’ held at Kyoto University's Shinagawa Office on 29 July 2013 and subsequently published in the conference proceedings of said symposium.

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