Searching for Home Abroad : Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism /

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During the first half of the 20th century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands; in more recent decades, over 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. The essays in this collection rethink complex related issues of ethnicity and national identity...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lesser, Jeff (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Japaner
Nikkeijin
Ethnische Identität
Etnische betrekkingen.
Immigranten.
Brazilianen.
Japanese.
Foreign workers, Brazilian.
Ethnic relations.
Brazilians.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Japanese > Brazil.
Foreign workers, Brazilian > Japan.
Brazilians > Japan.
Japaner.
Brasilien
Japan.
Brazil.
Brazil > Ethnic relations.
Japan > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Looking for home in all the wrong places / Jeffrey Lesser
  • Japanese Brazilian Nikkei, a short history of identity building and homemaking / Jeffrey Lesser
  • Speaking in the tongue of antipole / Shuhei Hosokawa
  • Identity transformations among Okinawans and their descendants in Brazil / Koichi Mori
  • Circle K rules / Karen Tei Yamashita
  • Searching for home, wealth, pride, and "class" / Angelo Ishi
  • Urashima Taro's ambiguating prctices / Joshua Hotaka Roth
  • Homeland-less abroad / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda
  • Feminization of Japanese-Brazilian labor migration to Japan / Keiko Yamanaka
  • Do Japanese-Brazilians exist? / Daniel T. Linger.

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