@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00012657,
 author = {SAVELIEV, Igor},
 journal = {国際開発研究フォーラム, Forum of International Development Studies},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {In the mid-19th century, the building of modern nation states, the rise of the international state system and the completion of border demarcation around the world obliged governments to pay special attention to the enforcement of newly acquired borderlands and to establish policies for their successful integration into the state. Two such regions, British Columbia and the Priamur Region, joined Canada and Russia respectively at almost the same time, 1871 and 1858-1860. Basing on primary sources collected in Canadian and Russian archives and other sources, the present paper attempts to contribute to the discourse on borderland identity, exploring the role the East Asian and particularly Japanese migrants played in the construction of the regional identity of the two borderland regions-British Columbia and the Priamur Region. The study investigates the contradiction between the development of the region and the identity-based concept of immigration and naturalization policy. This paper also tries to answer, how East Asian and particularly Japanese migrants contributed to the crystallization of the regional borderland identity and to analyze the similarities and differences in the policies of the two countries.},
 pages = {79--94},
 title = {Migrants and Borderland Identity: A Comparative Study of Japanese Communities in British Columbia and the Priamur Region in the 1870s-1900s},
 volume = {40},
 year = {2011}
}