Living Transnationally Between Japan and Brazil

Sarah A. LeBaron von Baeyer

doi:10.5771/9781498580373

Summary

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

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Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8036-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8037-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 244
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Glossary of Key Japanese Terms No access
3. Glossary of Key Portuguese Terms No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1. The Silva Family No access
2. Jessica No access
3. Marcelo No access
4. Carlos No access
5. Angela No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. Brokered Lives in Japan No access
2. Factory Fight No access
3. Gender and Ethnicity on the Line No access
4. Chasing Middle-Class Subjectivity No access
5. Social (Im)mobility No access
6. Debora No access
7. Danny and Julia No access
8. Claudia and Her Daughters, and Her Daughters’ Daughters No access
9. Kikue No access
10. Conclusion No access
11. Notes No access
1. Family Background No access
2. The 1.5 and Second Generation No access
3. The Process of Naturalization No access
4. Naturalization in Context No access
5. Naturalization ≠ Assimilation No access
6. Passing as Japanese No access
7. Zainichi Brazilians or Brazilian-Japanese—or New Brazilians? No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Notes No access
1. The Role of Schools No access
2. Brazilian Schools in Japan No access
3. The Mundo do Conhecimento (MdC) School No access
4. Segmented Transportation: The Bus Ride to School No access
5. A Day at the School No access
6. Through the Eyes of School Administrators, Students, and Alumni No access
7. Vanessa No access
8. Ana No access
9. Masana No access
10. Lara No access
11. Diogo No access
12. Conclusion No access
13. Notes No access
1. Introducing the Pereiras No access
2. Family Background No access
3. Return to Brazil No access
4. Other Experiences of Return No access
5. The Furutas No access
6. To Return or Not to Return No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
1. Religion and the Rise of Brazilian Evangelical/Neo-Pentecostal Christianity No access
2. God Sent Me a Sign No access
3. Converting in Japan No access
4. Religious Spaces and Services No access
5. Non-Evangelical/Neo-Pentecostal Migrants No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. Gender, Generation, and Class No access
9. Finding Home(s) in Japan, Brazil, and Beyond No access
10. Notes No access
11. The Silvas No access
12. The Matsudas No access
13. The Pereiras No access
14. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 195 - 208
Epilogue No access Pages 209 - 218
Bibliography No access Pages 219 - 230
Index No access Pages 231 - 242
About the Author No access Pages 243 - 244