Living Transnationally between Japan and Brazil: Routes beyond Roots (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781498580380)

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

Author: Sarah A. Lebaron Von Baeyer
ISBN-10: 1498580386
ISBN-13: 9781498580380
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2023
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d