Searching for home abroad : Japanese Brazilians and transnationalism / edited by Jeffrey Lesser. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2003. - xii, 219 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Looking for home in all the wrong places / Jeffrey Lesser -- Japanese Brazilian Nikkei, a short history of identity building and homemaking / Jeffrey Lesser -- Speaking in the tongue of antipole / Shuhei Hosokawa -- Identity transformations among Okinawans and their descendants in Brazil / Koichi Mori -- Circle K rules / Karen Tei Yamashita -- Searching for home, wealth, pride, and "class" / Angelo Ishi -- Urashima Taro's ambiguating prctices / Joshua Hotaka Roth -- Homeland-less abroad / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda -- Feminization of Japanese-Brazilian labor migration to Japan / Keiko Yamanaka -- Do Japanese-Brazilians exist? / Daniel T. Linger.

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Brazilians--Japan.
Foreign workers, Brazilian--Japan.
Japanese--Brazil.


Japan--Ethnic relations.
Brazil--Ethnic relations.

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