Additional reports from Wheel of Dharma.

author of Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community.many twenty-something Japanese women migrated to places like Southern California with few skills and an overall lack of human capital.

She also wrote and produced the documentary Asian America.members of the Shin Issei community.Shin Issei women tell stories of precarity.

and the Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring and Teaching from the UCLA Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association.She is also a professor at the Intercultural Research Institute.

where they were restricted by gendered social structures.

her research interests shifted from ethnicity to race.Aimee YamadaThe candidates are vying for two openings on the council.

Yamada said that she has been working at an airport since the 1970s while raising four daughters and volunteering in the community.Councilmember Rodney Tanaka and Councilmember Wanda Love.

GARDENA —Aimee Midori Yamada is one of four candidates for the Gardena City Council in the March 5 election.If elected I will focus on increasing opportunities for Gardena’s youth and investing in their growth wholeheartedly.