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Title:

Searching for home abroad : Japanese Brazilians and transnationalism / edited by Jeffrey Lesser.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xii, 219 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Brazilians--Japan.
Alien labor, Brazilian--Japan.
Japanese--Brazil.
Brazilianen.
Immigranten.
Etnische betrekkingen.
Japan--Ethnic relations.
Brazil--Ethnic relations.

Other Authors:

Lesser, Jeff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Looking for home in all the wrong places / Jeffrey Lesser -- Japanese Brazilian Nikkei, a short history of identity building and homemaking / Jeffrey Lesser -- Speaking in the tongue of antipole / 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" / Angelo Ishi -- Urashima Taro's ambiguating prctices / Joshua Hotaka Roth -- Homeland-less abroad / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda -- Feminization of Japanese-Brazilian labor migration to Japan / Keiko Yamanaka -- Do Japanese-Brazilians exist? / Daniel T. Linger.

ISBN:

9780822331483 (pbk.)
0822331489 (pbk.)
9780822331124
0822331128

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51613837

LCCN:

2003001724

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)