Searching for Home Abroad
Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2003
232 pages
978-0-8223-8513-4 (ISBN)
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A multidisciplinary study of the transnational cultural identity of Brazilian nationals of Japanese descent and their more recent attempts to re-settle in Japan.
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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.
Content
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
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
