Searching for Home Abroad
Subtitle: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
Contributors: Joshua Roth (Contributor); Karen Yamashita (Contributor); Koichi Mori (Contributor); Shuhei Hosokawa (Contributor); Angelo Ishi (Contributor); Keiko Yamanaka (Contributor)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780822331124
Subjects: Cultural studies; Ethnic studies; Immigration & emigration; Politics / Current Events; Social Science; 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).