Searching for home abroad : Japanese-Brazilians and transnationalism /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lesser, Jeff
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2003.
Subjects:	Brazilians > Japan. Japan > Ethnic relations. Foreign workers, Brazilian > Japan. Japanese > Brazil. Brazil > Ethnic relations.

Table of Contents:

Looking for home in all the wrong places / Jeffrey Lesser
Japanese, Brazilians, Nikkei: a short history of identity building and homemaking / Jeffrey Lesser
Speaking in the tongue of antipode: Japanese Brazilian fantasy on the origin of language / Shuhei Hosokawa
Identity transformations among Okinawans and their descendants in Brazil / Koichi Mori
Circle K rules / Karen Tei Yamashita
Searching for home, wealth, pride, and "class": Japanese Brazilians in the "Land of Yen" / Angelo Ishi
Urashima Taro's ambiguating practices: the significance of overseas voting rights for elderly Japanese migrants to Brazil / Joshua Hotaka Roth
Homeland-less abroad: transnational liminality, social alienation, and personal malaise / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda
Feminization of Japanese-Brazilian labor migration to Japan / Keiko Yamanaka
Do Japanese-Brazilians exist? / Daniel T. Linger.