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Brokered Homeland

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Description for Brokered Homeland Paperback. Series: Anthropology of Contemporary Issues S. Num Pages: 176 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFFN; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 249.

Faced with an aging workforce, Japanese firms are hiring foreign workers in ever-increasing numbers. In 1990 Japan's government began encouraging the migration of Nikkeijin (overseas Japanese) who are presumed to assimilate more easily than are foreign nationals without a Japanese connection. More than 250,000 Nikkeijin, mainly from Brazil, now work in Japan. The interactions between Nikkeijin and natives, says Joshua Hotaka Roth, play a significant role in the emergence of an increasingly multicultural Japan. He uses the experiences of Japanese Brazilians in Japan to illuminate the racial, cultural, linguistic, and other criteria groups use to distinguish themselves from one another. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Anthropology of Contemporary Issues S.
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801488085
SKU
V9780801488085
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About Joshua Hotaka Roth
Joshua Hotaka Roth is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College.

Reviews for Brokered Homeland
The story that was once told about citizens of foreign countries who could demonstrate Japanese ancestry was that even if they had never been to Japan, even if they couldn't speak the language, they nevertheless remained, in some essential way, Japanese.... Brokered Homeland focuses on the way in which these people's self-understanding—as well as other people's understanding of them—shifts as ... Read more

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