The Company Town at Seabrook Farms, N.J.: Internment, Migration, and Resettlement in the WWII Era

FAIN: ES-256944-17

Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8559)
Andrew Theodore Urban (Project Director: March 2017 to March 2021)

A two-week institute for thirty school teachers on the role of Seabrook Farms as a work camp for Japanese-American detainees during and after World War II.

Seabrook Farms: Layered Histories of Displacement, Migration, and Resettlement? will be coordinated and hosted by Professor Urban and the American Studies Department, in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries and Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative. The institute will use Seabrook Farms as a case study that offers a window into the different histories of relocation in the World War II era, and how Japanese American internees, migrants, and refugees were recruited and sponsored by the company as laborers. At the institute, which is scheduled for July 16--27, 2018, a class of thirty high school teachers will engage secondary readings through faculty-led discussions and activities. They will also be introduced to primary source material that they can incorporate into their own classrooms.