Immigrant Assimilation at the International Institute of Honolulu, 1916-1937

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This paper examines the role of the Young Women’s Christian Association in promoting the social adjustment of Asian immigrant women in Honolulu, Hawaii, through a program known as the International Institute. This was the YWCA’s principal contribution to the Americanization fervor that swept the United States in the early decades of the twentieth century. Unlike nativist and anti-immigrant Americanization programs that sought to dismantle ethnic differences and promote conformity to Anglo-Saxon values, International Institutes were conceived as serviceoriented agencies that celebrated ethnic differences and promoted cultural pluralism – an important distinction given Hawaii’s development as a socially diverse insular community. The study identifies tensions between the middle-class, paid staff from the national YWCA and wealthier volunteer board members in Hawaii who controlled the Honolulu Institute’s structure and progress as an assimilative agency. Whereas Honolulu board women viewed the International Institute as a service that promoted socioeconomic continuity, their professional colleagues from the continental U.S. viewed it as an instrument of social change.

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  • 研究論集

    研究論集 108 69-85, 2018-09

    関西外国語大学・関西外国語大学短期大学部

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