Migrants and Identity in Japan and Brazil
Subtitle: The Nikkeijin
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: December 13, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780700717057
Subjects: Anthropology; Immigration & emigration; Return migration; Ethnic Studies - General; Brazil; History; History - General History; Japan; History: World; Anthropology - Cultural; Asia - Japan; History / Japan; Social conditions; Alien labor, Brazilian; Brazilians; Emigration and immigration
First sentence: During the modernisation and industrialisation of the Meiji period (1868-1912), Japan was affected by numerous socioeconomic problems, and a number of Japanese sought escape from poverty through migration.