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

Takeyuki Tsuda

Preface: The Japanese Brazilians as Immigrant Celebrities

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Ethnicity and the Anthropologist: Negotiating Identities in the Field

Part 1. Minority Status

1. When Minorities Migrate: The Japanese Brazilians as Positive Minorities in Brazil and Their Return Migration to Japan

2. From Positive to Negative Minority: Ethnic Prejudice and "Discrimination'' Toward the Japanese Brazilians in Japan

Part 2. Identity

3. Migration and Deterritorialized Nationalism: The Ethnic Encounter with the Japanese and the Development of a Minority Counteridentity

4. Transnational Communities Without a Consciousness? Transnational Connections, National Identities, and the Nation-State

Part 3. Adaptation

5. The Performance of Brazilian Counteridentities: Ethnic Resistance and the Japanese Nation-State

6. "Assimilation Blues'': Problems Among Assimilation-Oriented Japanese Brazilians

Conclusion: Ethnic Encounters in the Global Ecumene

Epilogue: Caste or Assimilation? The Future Minority Status and Ethnic Adaptation of the Japanese Brazilians in Japan

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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