Title: Searching for home abroad : Japanese-Brazilians and transnationalism /
Authors: Lesser, Jeff.
Publisher: Duke University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Brazilians Japan.; Foreign workers, Brazilian Japan.; Japanese Brazil; Japan Ethnic relations.; Brazil Ethnic relations.
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.