Diaspora and Identity : : Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan /

Diaspora and Identity : : Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan / / Mieko Nishida.

São Paulo, Brazil, holds the largest number of Japanese descendants outside Japan, and they have been there for six generations. Japanese immigration to Brazil started in 1908 to replace European immigrants to work in São Paulo's expanding coffee industry. It peaked in the late 1920s and early...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
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Nishida, Mieko,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 4 b&w illustrations, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Personal Names and Currency
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Immigration and Diaspora
  • Chapter Two. Prewar Child Immigrants and Their Japanese Identity
  • Chapter Three. Niseis and Their Brazilian Identity
  • Chapter Four. Postwar Immigrants and Their New Japanese Identity
  • Chapter Five. Niseis, Sanseis, and Their Class-Gender Identity
  • Chapter Six. Sanseis, Yonseis, and Their Racial Identity
  • Chapter Seven. Japanese Brazilians and Their Brazilian Identity in Japan
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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