Title Strangers in the ethnic homeland : Japanese Brazilian return migration in transnational perspective / Takeyuki Tsuda

Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 431 pages) : illustrations Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ethnicity and the Anthropologist: Negotiating Identities in the Field -- Part 1. Minority Status -- 1. When Minorities Migrate: The Japanese Brazilians as Positive Minorities in Brazil and Their Return Migration to Japan -- 2. From Positive to Negative Minority: Ethnic Prejudice and "Discrimination" Toward the Japanese Brazilians in Japan -- Part 2. Identity -- 3. Migration and Deterritorialized Nationalism: The Ethnic Encounter with the Japanese and the Development of a Minority Counteridentity -- 4. Transnational Communities Without a Consciousness?: Transnational Connections, National Identities, and the Nation-State -- Part 3. Adaptation -- 5. The Performance of Brazilian Counteridentities: Ethnic Resistance and the Japanese Nation-State -- 6. "Assimilation Blues": Problems Among Assimilation-Oriented Japanese Brazilians -- Conclusion: Ethnic Encounters in the Global Ecumene -- Epilogue: Caste or Assimilation?: The Future Minority Status and Ethnic Adaptation of the Japanese Brazilians in Japan -- References -- Index Summary Since the late 1980s, Brazilians of Japanese descent have been "return" migrating to Japan as unskilled foreign workers. With an immigrant population currently estimated at roughly 280,000, Japanese Brazilians are now the second largest group of foreigners in Japan. Although they are of Japanese descent, most were born in Brazil and are culturally Brazilian. As a result, they have become Japan's newest ethnic minority Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-422) and index Notes Print version record Subject Brazilians -- Japan Foreign workers, Brazilian -- Japan SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Brazilians Ethnic relations Foreign workers, Brazilian Japan -- Ethnic relations Japan Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book LC no. 2002067460 ISBN 0231502346 9780231502344 9780231128384 023112838X 9780231128391 0231128398

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