No one home : Brazilian selves remade in Japan / Daniel Touro Linger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linger, Daniel Touro.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brazilians--Japan.

Brazilians.

Brazilians--Ethnic identity.

Ethnicity.

Japan--Ethnic relations.

Japan.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xix, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This is an ethnographic study, based on fieldwork and extensive personal interviews, of Brazilians of Japanese descent who have migrated to Japan in response to the government' s call for ethnically acceptable unskilled workers. These people of Toyota City are among 200,000 Brazilians of Japanese descent who live in Japan today, forming Japan' s third-largest minority group.

Contents:

Part 1 Orientations

1. Global, Local, Personal 3

2. The Blue Hemisphere 19

Part 2 Scenes

3. Postmodern Times 45

4. Middle-School Days 57

5. Eating Brazil 74

Part 3 Persons

Workers

6. Eduardo Mori: "One day I'm going home" 95

7. Elena Queiroz de Assis Takeda: "I defeated them all" 115

8. Bernardo Kinjoh: "All the doors would open" 131

Students

9. Miriam Moreira: "I lived there, I was born there, I grew up there!" 153

10. Catarina Noriko Iemura: "If it was up to me, I'd never leave Japan" 169

11. Elisa Aoshima: "To be Brazilian is to be clever" 191

Intermediaries

12. Rosa Kitagawa: "Send me a blond wig!" 209

13. Eriko Miyagi: "Even I don't know how I feel" 227

14. Naomi Mizutake: "The eighth wonder of the world" 247

Part 4 The Nation in the Mind

15. National Banners 275

16. Human Warmth 290

17. Discontinuities 304.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-333) and index.

ISBN:

0804739102

0804741824

OCLC:

45841568