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Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
J. Ed. Lesser
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Description for Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
Paperback. During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnational movements and the experiences of Japanese-Brazilians, this book includes essays that rethink complex issues of ethnicity and national identity. Editor(s): Lesser, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KLSB; JFC; JFFN; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822331483
SKU
V9780822331483
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About J. Ed. Lesser
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.
Reviews for Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
“Jeffrey Lesser’s achievement is that he and his colleagues have assembled the most comprehensive, multi-dimensional portrayal to date of the Japanese in Brazil as well as Brazilians of Japanese descent who have gone to work temporarily in Japan. Their research deftly illustrates how the multiple identities of immigrants and their descendants, as well as transnational labor migrants, can generate a ... Read more