Searching for Home Abroad (eBook, PDF)

Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
Redaktion: Jeffrey Lesser, Lesser

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Produktbeschreibung

During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. In more recent decades that flow has been reversed: more than 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnational movements and the experiences of Japanese-Brazilians, the essays in Searching for Home Abroad rethink complex issues of ethnicity and national identity. The contributors-who represent a number of nationalities and disciplines themselves-analyze how the original Japanese immigrants, their descendants in Brazil, and the Japanese-Brazilians in Japan sought to fit into the culture of each country while confronting both prejudice and discrimination.The concepts of home and diaspora are engaged and debated throughout the volume. Drawing on numerous sources-oral histories, interviews, private papers, films, myths, and music-the contributors highlight the role ethnic minorities have played in constructing Brazilian and Japanese national identities. The essayists consider the economic and emotional motivations for migration as well as a range of fascinating cultural outgrowths such as Japanese secret societies in Brazil. They explore intriguing paradoxes, including the feeling among many Japanese-Brazilians who have migrated to Japan that they are more "e;Brazilian"e; there than they were in Brazil. Searching for Home Abroad will be of great interest to scholars of immigration and ethnicity in the Americas and Asia.Contributors. Shuhei Hosokawa, Angelo Ishi, Jeffrey Lesser, Daniel T. Linger, Koichi Mori, Joshua Hotaka Roth, Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda, Keiko Yamanaka, Karen Tei Yamashita

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822385134
• Artikelnr.: 54927478

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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