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Searching for home abroad : Japanese Brazilians and transnationalism / edited by Jeffrey Lesser.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brazilians--Japan.
- Brazilians.
- Foreign workers, Brazilian--Japan.
- Foreign workers, Brazilian.
- Japanese--Brazil.
- Japanese.
- Japan--Ethnic relations.
- Japan.
- Brazil--Ethnic relations.
- Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-92086-3
- 9786612920868
- 0-8223-8513-9
- OCLC:
- 1055288495
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