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Author:

Kosminsky, Ethel Volfzon, author.

Title:

An ethnography of the lives of Japanese and Japanese Brazilian migrants : childhood, family, and work / Ethel V. Kosminsky ; foreword by Arthur Sakamoto.

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xxv, 349 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Bastos (Sao Paulo, Brazil)--History--History--20th century.
Japanese--Bastos (Sao Paulo)--Bastos (Sao Paulo)--History--20th century.
Japanese--Brazil--Ethnic identity.
Japanese--Cultural assimilation--Brazil.
Immigrants--Bastos (Sao Paulo)--Bastos (Sao Paulo)--History--20th century.
Japan--History--History--20th century.
Return migration--Japan--History--20th century.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants.
Japanese.
Japanese--Cultural assimilation.
Japanese--Ethnic identity.
Return migration.
Brazil.
Brazil--Bastos (Sao Paulo)
Japan.
1900-1999
History.

Other Authors:

Sakamoto, Arthur, writer of foreword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

An Overview of Japanese Migration to the Americas -- Japanese Colonies in Sao Paulo State -- Living in Bastos -- Familial Organization in Japan and in Japanese Colonies in Sao Paulo State -- The Japanese Brazilian World Upside Down -- Intermediating Labor Force: Agents of Transnational Migrants -- Transnational Migration : An Ethnographical Account -- Labor Migration : Dekasegi -- Living in Japan -- Familial Relationships : Children and Teenagers.

Summary:

"This book explores the Japanese emigration to the planned colony of Bastos in Sao Paulo, Brazil in the early twentieth century. Using interviews and fieldwork done in both Bastos and Japan, Ethel Kosminsky analyzes the consequences of these temporary labor migrations on the immigrants and their families"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1498522599
9781498522595

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1144959259

LCCN:

2020011615

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)