Strangers in the ethnic homeland : Japanese Brazilian return migration in transnational perspective /
Since the late 1980s, Brazilians of Japanese descent have been "return" migrating to Japan as unskilled foreign workers. With an immigrant population currently estimated at roughly 280,000, Japanese Brazilians are now the second largest group of foreigners in Japan. Although they are of Ja...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Ethnicity and the Anthropologist: Negotiating Identities in the Field
- Part 1. Minority Status
- 1. When Minorities Migrate: The Japanese Brazilians as Positive Minorities in Brazil and Their Return Migration to Japan
- 2. From Positive to Negative Minority: Ethnic Prejudice and "Discrimination" Toward the Japanese Brazilians in Japan
- Part 2. Identity
- 3. Migration and Deterritorialized Nationalism: The Ethnic Encounter with the Japanese and the Development of a Minority Counteridentity
- 4. Transnational Communities Without a Consciousness?: Transnational Connections, National Identities, and the Nation-State
- Part 3. Adaptation
- 5. The Performance of Brazilian Counteridentities: Ethnic Resistance and the Japanese Nation-State
- 6. "Assimilation Blues": Problems Among Assimilation-Oriented Japanese Brazilians
- Conclusion: Ethnic Encounters in the Global Ecumene
- Epilogue: Caste or Assimilation?: The Future Minority Status and Ethnic Adaptation of the Japanese Brazilians in Japan
- References
- Index.