Living Transnationally between Japan and Brazil
Routes beyond Roots
Seiten
2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8038-0 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8038-0 (ISBN)
This book presents an ethnographic portrait of transnational Japanese-Brazilian labor migrants and their families as they navigate life between Japan and Brazil. The author pays particular attention to gender, generation, and class, and to structures besides work such as family, education, and religion.
Based on over two years of participant-observation in labor brokerage firms, factories, schools, churches, and people’s homes in Japan and Brazil, Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer presents an ethnographic portrait of what it means in practice to “live transnationally,” that is, to contend with the social, institutional, and aspirational landscapes bridging different national settings. Rather than view Japanese-Brazilian labor migrants and their families as somehow lost or caught between cultures, she demonstrates how they in fact find creative and flexible ways of belonging to multiple places at once. At the same time, the author pays close attention to the various constraints and possibilities that people face as they navigate other dimensions of their lives besides ethnic or national identity, namely, family, gender, class, age, work, education, and religion
Based on over two years of participant-observation in labor brokerage firms, factories, schools, churches, and people’s homes in Japan and Brazil, Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer presents an ethnographic portrait of what it means in practice to “live transnationally,” that is, to contend with the social, institutional, and aspirational landscapes bridging different national settings. Rather than view Japanese-Brazilian labor migrants and their families as somehow lost or caught between cultures, she demonstrates how they in fact find creative and flexible ways of belonging to multiple places at once. At the same time, the author pays close attention to the various constraints and possibilities that people face as they navigate other dimensions of their lives besides ethnic or national identity, namely, family, gender, class, age, work, education, and religion
Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer is lecturer in anthropology and East Asian studies at Yale University.
Chapter One: The Silvas: Life between Japan and Brazil
Chapter Two: Working-Class Jobs, Middle-Class Desires
Chapter Three: The Matsudas: Becoming Japanese
Chapter Four: Learning to Labor or Leave
Chapter Five: The Pereiras: Back to Brazil
Chapter Six: Faith in God
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.03.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Studies in Modern Japan |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 386 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-8038-6 / 1498580386 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-8038-0 / 9781498580380 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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