Lesser Searching for Home Abroad

Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8513-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

A multidisciplinary study of the transnational cultural identity of Brazilian nationals of Japanese descent and their more recent attempts to re-settle in Japan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lesser, Jeffrey

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hosokawa, Shuhei

Mori, Koichi

Yamashita, Karen Tei

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Glossary xi

Introduction: Looking for Home in All the Wrong Places / Jeffrey Lesser 1

Japanese, Brazilians, Nikkei: A Short History of Identity Building and Homemaking / Jeffrey Lesser 5

Speaking in the Tongue of Antipode: Japanese Brazilian Fantasy on the Origin of Language / Shuhei Hosokawa 21

Identity Transformations among Okinawans and Their Descendants in Brazil / Koichi Mori 47

Interlude: Circle K Rules / Karen Tei Yamashita 67

Searching for Home, Wealth, Pride, and "Class": Japanese Brazilians in the "Land of Yen" / Angelo Ishi 75

Urashima Taro's Ambiguating Practices: The Significance of Overseas Voting Rights for Elderly Japanese Migrants to Brazil / Joshua Hotaka Roth 103

Homeland-less Abroad: Transnational Liminality, Social Alienation, and Personal Malaise / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda 121

Feminization of Japanese Brazilian Labor Migration to Japan / Keiko Yamanaka 163

Do Japanese Brazilians Exist? / Daniel T. Linger 201

Contributors 215

Index 217

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey Lesser is Professor of History and Director of the Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Emory University. He is the author, most recently, of Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil, also published by Duke University Press.