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Author:   Jeffrey Lesser
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780822331124

ISBN 10:   0822331128
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   15 September 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Glossary xi Introduction: Looking for Home in All the Wrong Places / Jeffrey Lesser 1 Japanese, Brazilians, Nikkei: A Short History of Identity Building and Homemaking / Jeffrey Lesser 5 Speaking in the Tongue of Antipode: Japanese Brazilian Fantasy on the Origin of Language / Shuhei Hosokawa 21 Identity Transformations among Okinawans and Their Descendants in Brazil / Koichi Mori 47 Interlude: Circle K Rules / Karen Tei Yamashita 67 Searching for Home, Wealth, Pride, and Class : Japanese Brazilians in the Land of Yen / Angelo Ishi 75 Urashima Taro's Ambiguating Practices: The Significance of Overseas Voting Rights for Elderly Japanese Migrants to Brazil / Joshua Hotaka Roth 103 Homeland-less Abroad: Transnational Liminality, Social Alienation, and Personal Malaise / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda 121 Feminization of Japanese Brazilian Labor Migration to Japan / Keiko Yamanaka 163 Do Japanese Brazilians Exist? / Daniel T. Linger 201 Contributors 215 Index 217

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"""A unique collection...""--Terry Hong, Asian Week ""I highly recommend Searching for Home Abroad for scholars and students of anthropology, history, and ethnic studies, as well as for all those interested in transnational migration and globalization.""--Nobuko Adachi, History: A Review of Books ""A major strength is the empirical grounding of much of the research in fieldwork conducted in Japan and Brazil, a dimension that always adds to social analysis.""--Daniela de Carvalho, Journal of Japanese Studies ""[S]hed[s] new light on this specific minority group as well as raise[s] some tough questions about transnationalism and ethnic-identity formation in general.""--Brian Masaru Hayashi, The Journal of Asian Studies ""[A] very interesting, informative, analytical, provocative and readable book.""--Antonio Sergio Alfredo Guimaraes, Journal of Latin American Studies ""[A] fascinating collection of essays on diverse aspects of the Japanese migration to Brazil in the early 20th century and the recent flows of Japanese Brazilians who relocated to Japan... [A] well-grounded and engaging reading for scholars from various disciplines and migration-related practitioners alike.""--Ana Margheritis, The Latin Americanist ""[N]ot just essential reading for students and scholars of Nikkei (people of Japanese descent) issues; [this book] is also an instructive primer on the contingency of ethnic identity.""--Robert Efird, Pacific Affairs ""Overall, the essays collected in this volume offer suggestive insights on the convoluted and unique century old Japanese-Brazilian transnational formation. For the most part, the different contributions offer highly accessible reading for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in Asian, Latin American and migration studies.""--Gerardo Renique, Bulletin of Latin American Research"

A unique collection... --Terry Hong, Asian Week I highly recommend Searching for Home Abroad for scholars and students of anthropology, history, and ethnic studies, as well as for all those interested in transnational migration and globalization. --Nobuko Adachi, History: A Review of Books A major strength is the empirical grounding of much of the research in fieldwork conducted in Japan and Brazil, a dimension that always adds to social analysis. --Daniela de Carvalho, Journal of Japanese Studies [S]hed[s] new light on this specific minority group as well as raise[s] some tough questions about transnationalism and ethnic-identity formation in general. --Brian Masaru Hayashi, The Journal of Asian Studies [A] very interesting, informative, analytical, provocative and readable book. --Antonio Sergio Alfredo Guimaraes, Journal of Latin American Studies [A] fascinating collection of essays on diverse aspects of the Japanese migration to Brazil in the early 20th century and the recent flows of Japanese Brazilians who relocated to Japan... [A] well-grounded and engaging reading for scholars from various disciplines and migration-related practitioners alike. --Ana Margheritis, The Latin Americanist [N]ot just essential reading for students and scholars of Nikkei (people of Japanese descent) issues; [this book] is also an instructive primer on the contingency of ethnic identity. --Robert Efird, Pacific Affairs Overall, the essays collected in this volume offer suggestive insights on the convoluted and unique century old Japanese-Brazilian transnational formation. For the most part, the different contributions offer highly accessible reading for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in Asian, Latin American and migration studies. --Gerardo Renique, Bulletin of Latin American Research

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Jeffrey Lesser is Professor of History and Director of the Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Emory University. He is the author, most recently, of Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil, also published by Duke University Press.

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