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

Takeyuki Tsuda

"A thorough job of scholarship. However, what makes this lively reading is Tsuda's description about the lives of immigrants and the Japanese who interacted with them." — Chizu Omori, Pacific Reader

"...encyclopedic, and for anyone venturing on a serious study of the Brazilian Nikkeijin in Japan in the future, it will be a resource bible." — Daniela DeCarvalho, Journal of Japanese Studies

"Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland raises important questions that urge us to think about ethnic and national identities in new ways." — Aya Ezawa, American Journal of Sociology

"A noteworthy addition to studies in labor migration that sets new standards." — George A De Vos, Professor Emeritus, department of anthropology, University of California at Berkeley

"This is the book all of us interested in the comparative study of immigration have been waiting for. It is a masterpiece work of exquisite ethnographic detail, theoretical excellence, and conceptual maturity written by a cosmopolitan intellectual. Tsuda's ethnographic empathy, uncanny sense for place and mood, and well-channeled interdisciplinary impulses suggests to me that this book will set the standard for all subsequent anthropological work on immigration in Japan." — Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education at Harvard and co-director of the Harvard Immigration Projects

"A path-breaking study of the ethnic Japanese-Brazilians. . . . This will be a wonderful teaching book." — Wayne Cornelius, director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California-San Diego

"This is an inquiry into some of the more elusive aspects of migration. The book is particularly effective in showing how migrants constitute their identities in ways that do not fit in either country of origin or destination and how these evolving identities themselves contribute to reproduce migration. A brilliant study!" — Saskia Sassen, author of Guests and Aliens

About the Author

Takeyuki Tsuda is the associate director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California at San Diego.

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