From the History of the Sakhalin Ainu – Forced Migrants, 1875–1948

Lim, Sofya

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From the History of the Sakhalin Ainu – Forced Migrants, 1875–1948

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From the History of the Sakhalin Ainu – Forced Migrants, 1875–1948

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S086954150000410-1-1

DOI

10.31857/S086954150000410-1

Publication type

Article

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Published

Authors

Sofya Lim

Affiliation: Far Eastern Federal University
Address: Russian Federation, Vladivostok, 8 Sukhanova St.

Journal name

Etnograficheskoe obozrenie

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121-135

Abstract

Over the course of their long history, the Ainu people retained their cultural identity in the Far Eastern Islands (Honshu, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kuril). In the nineteenth century, the Ainu were still subdivided into the Kuril, Sakhalin (Karafuto), and Hokkaido groups, which had distinct ways of life and language dialects. The article discusses some aspects of the history of the group of Sakhalin Ainu (endonym: enchiw) in 1875–1948 and focuses on the causes of their forced migrations as well as the specificities of their assimilation in the context of confrontation between Russia and Japan in the Far East. During the period under consideration, the people experienced three migration waves: in 1875, a part of the population was forcibly displaced and resettled to Hokkaido; in 1905, following the defeat of Russia in the war with Japan, the people returned to Sakhalin; during the third migration of the late 1940s, nearly all of the Sakhalin Ainu abandoned their native lands, and they live in Japan nowadays.

Keywords

Japan, Russia, South Sakhalin, Karafuto, Hokkaido, Sakhalin Ainu, migration, assimilation, Ishikari-Ainu

Received

06.08.2018

Publication date

11.10.2018

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960

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GOST	Lim S. From the History of the Sakhalin Ainu – Forced Migrants, 1875–1948 // Etnograficheskoe obozrenie – 2018. – 4 C. 121-135 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/ethnorev/s086954150000410-1-1-en (circulation date: 30.11.2023). DOI: 10.31857/S086954150000410-1
MLA	Lim, Sofya "From the History of the Sakhalin Ainu – Forced Migrants, 1875–1948." Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 4 (2018):121-135. DOI: 10.31857/S086954150000410-1
APA	Lim S. (2018). From the History of the Sakhalin Ainu – Forced Migrants, 1875–1948. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie (4), pp.121-135 DOI: 10.31857/S086954150000410-1

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