Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective

by Takeyuki Tsuda

Book Overview

Since the late 1980s, Brazilians of Japanese descent have been "return" migrating to Japan as unskilled foreign workers. With an immigrant population currently estimated at roughly 280,000, Japanese Brazilians are now the second largest group of foreigners in Japan. Although they are of Japanese descent, most were born in Brazil and are culturally Brazilian. As a result, they have become Japan's newest ethnic minority.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231128398
• ISBN13: 9780231128391
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"