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Using language to create understanding

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Migrant vs. Immigrant

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Given the multi-cultural setting that’s given in borderlands. Language is an absolute necessity for the minorities involved considering all that goes into borderlands society and communication. This goes for getting through on many things including business industry, negotiations and diplomacy both locally and transnationally, minority interactions, etc.

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Disjointing as a reader but that's how transnational history is and that's what makes it exciting

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It's almost necessary because of the number of groups involved.

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Left a lot of room for ambiguity and for concern. The imperial powers in charge of these regions didn't like that these native groups were mobile.

There was also the risk of having their indigenous identities stripped from them because of the laws in these domains.

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Primary sources from Japan, travel journals. Giving a sense of Japan as an Imperial Power while also showing the lives of immigrants.

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Separate documentation from different Imperial Powers that proved and justified their claim to Alaska.

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Using their knowledge and skillsets.

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Using identity to take advantage of opportunities in different regions of the borderland.

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How was territory being claimed. When territory was moving hands, deciding how to handle the identities and rights of the people living there.

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Expressing their identities, and refusal to conform or submit to the imperial powers trying to control them. Using their knowledge of the land and their skills to negotiate their identities and their placement.

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Taking on Canadian citizenship, working and living with indigenous peoples. Also with varying degrees of success.

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Through laws, regulating movement and access to resources, and justifying their right to be in this area (with varying degrees of success)

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Connection to Chamizal article - some sort of similar vibe between myths about border and hysteria over possibility of Japanese invasion

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While reading this book I was able to make connections to one previous unit book by Sasha D. Pack- the deepest border such as the comparisons with…

Encroaching Imperial influence in the area

Migration due to opportunity

Negotiations between empire and peoples via

Cheiftans/ skill set of laborers

The impact and feeling of war in the region

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The Pacific Ocean shapes the way people act, develop, and understand the border/borderlands.

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The Deepest Border -

Maritime zones

Slipstream Potentates (Dr. Waters)

Government Intelligence/Spies

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There were a lot of groups to really cover but some of whom who stuck out to me like the Japanese sailors and hunters for instance had identity issues as well especially based on the international influences with which they served given their skills in hunting along shores and other skills sets made them a valuable asset to industries in the region. However such rights such as hunting licenses, positions and payment were determined based off n being a colonial subject to say the British empire and the BC as opposed to say being registered under the Japanese empire which was building its influence in this area around the same time

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I found the context to be quite interesting given that it centralizes on a part of the wolrd which many consider to be isolate but when looked into is a cultural blend of nations, businesses and cultures which bridges the gaps to what’s considered a borderland. For this area with its racial divisions, imperial influences and growing industry and trade markets to bring about international matters are components that associate with borderlands studies. Granted the context is a bit repetitive and could be branched out more.

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So much content that moving between macro- and micro-scales can be difficult here and sometimes comes across as disjointed segments, but all still valuable content IMO

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I found the context to be quite interesting given that it centralizes on a part of the wolrd which many consider to be isolate but when looked into is a cultural blend of nations, businesses and cultures which bridges the gaps to what’s considered a borderland. For this area with its racial divisions, imperial influences and growing industry and trade markets to bring about international matters are components that associate with borderlands studies. Granted the context is a bit repetitive and could be branched out more.

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Law and borders simultaneously facilitated the absorption of indigenous territories, secured Asian and Indigenous labor, and worked to exclude those laborers from governance and limit their access to the very resources they helped developed (p. 219)