Intergenerational Effects of the Japanese American Internment

  • Nagata D
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Summarizes results from the Sansei Research Project which examined the multiple effects of the Japanese American internment (IN) during WWII upon the 3rd generation (Sansei) children of former internees. The project surveyed over 700 US Sansei; the present analyses are based on a sample of 596 Sansei respondents. Ss fell into 1 of 3 groups: (1) those who had both parents interned, (2) those who had only 1 parent interned, (3) those who had neither parent interned. Respondents answered a range of questions regarding family communication about the IN, level of interest and knowledge about the IN, sense of security about their rights, ethnic socialization and outmarriage, membership in Japanese American community groups, ability to understand Japanese language, and anticipated reaction to a future IN, as well as in what ways they felt their parents' IN affected their own and their parents' lives. Sansei who had one or both parents interned did not differ significantly from Sansei with noninterned parents with respect to rate of outmarriage, level of interest in IN, membership in community groups, or reaction to future IN. Communication findings revealed that even though there had been little overt communication about camp, the Sansei felt affected by their parents' experience. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

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Nagata, D. K. (1998). Intergenerational Effects of the Japanese American Internment. In International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma (pp. 125–139). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5567-1_8

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