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

By Sarah A. LeBaron von Baeyer

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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2023
• EAN: 9781498580380
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8038-0
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: New Studies in Modern Japan
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Japan, Brazil, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Labour Economics, Asian History, Sociology: work & labour