The Motivation to Migrate: The Ethnic and Sociocultural Constitution of the Japanese‐Brazilian Return‐Migration System

Tsuda, Takeyuki

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“…18 [Tsuda, 1999] In some cases, the personal networks has attracted Nikkeijin who go to Japan for reasons other than economic ones (e.g. reuniting with family members, marriage, etc.…”

Section: The Case Of the Brazilian Nikkeijinmentioning

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Conceptualizing Transnational Community Formation: Migrants, Sojourners and Diasporas in a Globalized Era

Knight

2002

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Transnational communities have flourished in the globalized era, creating a Diaspora and sojourners that are unlike earlier waves of migrants. This paper first examines the main theories currently used to describe and explain international migration and find them wanting. Through an examination of two case studies of ethnic Japanese migrants (the Brazilian Nikkeijin and Peruvian Nikkei) who return to their homeland after living abroad for one or two generations, the paper goes on to demonstrate that the concept of 'international migrant' needs further theorizing to account for the impact of globalization and globalism. To this end, the author calls for the development of new theoretical understandings of the evolution of transnational community formation that would be multi-variate and robust enough to guide future public policy and research.

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“…18 [Tsuda, 1999] In some cases, the personal networks has attracted Nikkeijin who go to Japan for reasons other than economic ones (e.g. reuniting with family members, marriage, etc.…”

Section: The Case Of the Brazilian Nikkeijinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing Transnational Community Formation: Migrants, Sojourners and Diasporas in a Globalized Era

Knight

2002

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“…There are approximately 1.2-1.9 million Nikkei amongst Brazil's 170 million population. Many of these Nikkei have migrated to Japan to work after a Japanese law change in 1990 allowed third-generation Nikkei unrestricted access to Japanese labor markets (Tsuda, 1999, Higuchi, 2006. The estimated 265,000 migrants send approximately $US2 billion in annual remittances (Beltrão and Sugahara, 2006).…”

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Surveying Migrant Households : A Comparison Of Census-Based, Snowball, And Intercept Point Surveys

McKenzie¹,

Mistiaen²

2007

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“…Se, em 1989 o registro de brasileiros ali era de 14.528 pessoas, três anos depois explodiu dez vezes para 147.803 pessoas (Tsuda, 1999).…”

Section: Migração Internacional Entre Brasil E Japãounclassified

“…Segundo Tsuda (1999), um modelo "push-pull", baseado em fatores econômicos que simplesmente expulsam os migrantes de seus países pobres e atraem para o país receptor mais desenvolvido, é inadequado para entender como esse fluxo migratório foi constituído. Um modelo compreensivo desse sistema de migração se faz necessário, pois as variáveis étnicas e socioculturais, como a formação de redes transnacionais entre a comunidade nikkei 2 e o Japão, foram importantes para sustentá-lo, em meio à grande distância geográfica entre os dois países.…”

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“…Os nipo-brasileiros sentem no Brasil afinidades culturais com o Japão, pela descendência, pelos valores e pelo fenótipo, que os diferenciam da maioria dos brasileiros. Os primeiros emigrantes, em meados dos anos oitenta, eram indivíduos de primeira e segunda geração que tinham contato com parentes no Japão e a adaptação facilitada no país em função das similaridades culturais (Tsuda, 1999).…”

Section: Migração Internacional Entre Brasil E Japãounclassified

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Migrantes em trânsito entre Brasil e Japão: uma intervenção psicossocial no retorno

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AGRADECIMENTOSEm primeiro lugar, agradeço as pessoas que viveram no Japão e que compartilharam suas vivências do retorno no espaço de Orientação Intercultural, tornando possível a realização deste estudo.Ao meu orientador, Prof. Geraldo José de Paiva, pelos conhecimentos e experiência transmitidos sobre a prática de pesquisa e a área intercultural. E sobretudo, pela tranqüilidade, disponibilidade e apoio incondicionais ao longo desse trabalho, que foram fundamentais.

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The Motivation to Migrate: The Ethnic and Sociocultural Constitution of the Japanese‐Brazilian Return‐Migration System

Cited by 50 publications

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Conceptualizing Transnational Community Formation: Migrants, Sojourners and Diasporas in a Globalized Era

Conceptualizing Transnational Community Formation: Migrants, Sojourners and Diasporas in a Globalized Era

Surveying Migrant Households : A Comparison Of Census-Based, Snowball, And Intercept Point Surveys

Migrantes em trânsito entre Brasil e Japão: uma intervenção psicossocial no retorno

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