Sarah A. LeBaron von Baeyer

Living Transnationally between Japan and Brazil (eBook, PDF)

Routes beyond Roots

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978758797
• Artikelnr.: 74849976

Autorenporträt

Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer is lecturer in anthropology and East Asian studies at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: The Silvas: Life between Japan and Brazil
Chapter Two: Working-Class Jobs, Middle-Class Desires
Chapter Three: The Matsudas: Becoming Japanese
Chapter Four: Learning to Labor or Leave
Chapter Five: The Pereiras: Back to Brazil
Chapter Six: Faith in God