"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 plethora of responses as to where and what their real home actually is. As such, this book makes a seminal contribution to Asian, Latin American, and migration studies."--Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, University of California, Riverside…mehr
"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 plethora of responses as to where and what their real home actually is. As such, this book makes a seminal contribution to Asian, Latin American, and migration studies."--Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, University of California, RiversideHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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
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
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