Living Transnationally Between Japan and Brazil - Routes Beyond Roots

This book presents an ethnographic portrait of transnational Japanese-Brazilian labor migrants and their families as they navigate life between Japan and Brazil. The author pays particular attention to gender, generation, and class, and to structures besides work such as family, education, and religion.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: The Silvas: Life between Japan and Brazil

Chapter Two: Working-Class Jobs, Middle-Class Desires

Chapter Three: The Matsudas: Becoming Japanese

Chapter Four: Learning to Labor or Leave

Chapter Five: The Pereiras: Back to Brazil

Chapter Six: Faith in God

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Nicole Griffin is an international early childhood education specialist with an interest in African Studies. She has worked at various education projects in Tanzania and is currently a graduate student at University College London.

Zusammenfassung

This book presents an ethnographic portrait of transnational Japanese-Brazilian labor migrants and their families as they navigate life between Japan and Brazil. The author pays particular attention to gender, generation, and class, and to structures besides work such as family, education, and religion.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sarah A. LeBaron von Baeyer, Sarah A Lebaron von Baeyer, Sarah A. Lebaron Von Baeyer
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498580366
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8036-6
• Seiten: 258
• Serie: New Studies in Modern Japan
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Allgemeines, Lexika; Japan, Brazil, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Dekasegi, Japanese diaspora, Japanese-Brazilian, Labor migration, Minorities in Japan, Nikkei-Brazilian, Return ethnic migration, Transnational migration, Migration, immigration & emigration, Labour Economics, Asian History, Sociology: work & labour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies