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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer is lecturer in anthropology and East Asian studies at Yale University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah A. Lebaron von Baeyer
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498580366
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8036-6
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: New Studies in Modern Japan
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Japan, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Dekasegi, Japanese diaspora, Japanese-Brazilian, Labor migration, Minorities in Japan, Nikkei-Brazilian, Return ethnic migration, Transnational migration