Description: "This book offers a story of new migration and community transformation. Via an ethnographic study of young Japanese women migrants (shin Issei), Tritia Toyota details how they make place/space for themselves among generations of Japanese Americans with shifting alterations of membership and belonging that are neither seamless nor easily acknowledged"--
Review Quotes: "In Intimate Strangers, Toyota interviews Japanese women who migrated to the US in their twenties at the end of the 20th century.... Toyota illustrates these shin Issei women's resiliency and strength as they adjusted to living in the US, arguing that they were activists who changed their lives for the better and transformed the Japanese American community in the process. In detailing these women's stories, Toyota also analyzes how race, gender, and belonging intersect with their lives. Summing Up: Highly recommended."--Choice