Searching for Home Abroad
Subtitle: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
Contributors: Angelo Ishi (Contributor); Joshua Roth (Contributor); Karen Yamashita (Contributor); Keiko Yamanaka (Contributor); Koichi Mori (Contributor); Shuhei Hosokawa (Contributor)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780822331483
Subjects: Cultural studies; Ethnic studies; Ethnography; Immigration & emigration; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Brazil; Japan; South America; Emigration & Immigration; Political Ideologies - Nationalism; Asian Studies; Latin American Studies; Race and Ethnicity; Ethnic Studies - General
First sentence: Japanese diplomat Sho Nemoto arrived in Brazil in September 1894, just as Brazil's planters were becoming disillusioned with European laborers who seemed more interested in protesting against labor and social conditions than in working as replacements for slaves (Holloway 1980, 36, 48).