Living Transnationally Between Japan and Brazil : Routes Beyond Roots

Baeyer, Sarah A. Lebaron Von

ISBN 10: 1498580386 / ISBN 13: 9781498580380

Published by Lexington Books, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Living Transnationally Between Japan and Brazil : Routes Beyond Roots
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498580386
• ISBN 13: 9781498580380
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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

About the Author

Douglas Slaymaker is associate professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky.