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No One Home

Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan

Autor: Daniel Touro Linger

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Editura: Stanford University Press

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The movement of Brazilians of Japanese descent to Japan is one of the most intriguing transnational...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Daniel Touro Linger

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2001

Pagini

376

EAN

9780804739108

ISBN

0804739102

Enbook ID

04717136

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

671

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 26

Descriere completă

The movement of Brazilians of Japanese descent to Japan is one of the most intriguing transnational migrations of recent years. In 1990, seeking a supply of ethnically acceptable unskilled workers, Japan permitted overseas Japanese, along with their spouses and children, to enter the country as long-term residents. The prospect of high salaries eventually drew about 200,000 nikkeis, as Brazilians of Japanese descent often call themselves, to Japan, making them Japan s third-largest minority group. No One Home is an ethnographic study, based on fieldwork and extensive personal interviews, of nikkeis living in Toyota City. The migrants dual identities coexist uneasily. The book focuses on how Brazilian factory workers and their children work through the problems arising from their ambiguous status. In Toyota City and environs, Brazilian men and women do hard, dirty, and dangerous physical labor in automobile-parts plants that supply Toyota Motors and other large automobile manufacturers. Japanese schools confront their children with an array of cultural, linguistic, educational, and personal obstacles. In the immediacies of the shop floor, classroom, and their leisure activities, nikkeis remake in Japan selves they had forged as citizens of Brazil, a process that is dynamic, varied, and unpredictable.