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.

About the author

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.

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, Sarah A. LeBaron von Baeyer
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 03.04.2023
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9781498580380
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8038-0
• Pages: 258
• Series: New Studies in Modern Japan
• Subjects: Japan, Brazil, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Labour Economics, Asian History, Sociology: work & labour, Transnational Migration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, Labor Migration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies, Return ethnic migration, Minorities in Japan, Nikkei-Brazilian, Dekasegi, Japanese-Brazilian, Japanese diaspora