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Daniel Touro Linger - No One Home - 9780804739108 - V9780804739108
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No One Home

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Description for No One Home Hardback. This work is an ethnographic study, based on fieldwork and extensive personal interviews, of nikkeis living in Toyota City. The book focuses on how Brazilian factory workers and their children work through the problems arising from their ambiguous status. Num Pages: 376 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 683.

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 ... Read more

The book complements the recent literature on transnationalism in several important respects. While recognizing the influence of global economics and media, it emphasizes how transnationalism is lived. It highlights people's experiences rather than the conditions of those experiences, and examines their senses of self rather than identity constructs. Instead of treating neighbors and interviewees as members of social categories, the author explores personal realms—the rich, complex, idiosyncratic selves nikkeis continually refashion during their sojourn in Japan. Overall, he underlines the significance of consciousness, experience, and biography for comprehensive studies of transnationalism and identity.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804739108
SKU
V9780804739108
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About Daniel Touro Linger
Daniel T. Linger is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City (Stanford, 1992).

Reviews for No One Home
"Convincing and innovative. . . . comparative studies will doubtlessly benefit from Linger's approach."
The Journal of Asian Studies "An important contribution to academic literature. . . . an example of well-rounded interdisciplinary scholarship."
Journal of Asian Studies

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