{"product_id":"brokered-homeland-japanese-brazilian-migrants-in-japan-9780801488085","title":"Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan\u003c\/strong\u003e by Roth, Joshua Hotaka. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780801488085.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaced with an aging workforce, Japanese firms are hiring foreign workers in ever-increasing numbers. In 1990 Japans government began encouraging the migration of Nikkeijin (overseas Japanese) who are presumed to assimilate more easily than are foreign nationals without a Japanese connection. More than 250,000 Nikkeijin, mainly from Brazil, now work in Japan.\nThe interactions between Nikkeijin and natives, says Joshua Hotaka Roth, play a significant role in the emergence of an increasingly multicultural Japan. He uses the experiences of Japanese Brazilians in Japan to illuminate the racial, cultural, linguistic, and other criteria groups use to distinguish themselves from one another. Roths analysis is enriched by on-site observations at festivals, in factories, and in community centers, as well as by interviews with workers, managers, employment brokers, and government officials.\nConsidered both \"essentially Japanese\" and \"foreign,\" nikkeijin benefit from preferential immigration policy, yet face economic and political strictures that marginalize them socially and deny them membership in local communities. Although the literature on immigration tends to blame native blue-collar workers for tense relations with migrants, Roth makes a compelling case for a more complex definition of the relationships among class, nativism, and foreign labor. Brokered Homeland is enlivened by Roths own experience: in Japan, he came to think of himself as nikkeijin, rather than as Japanese-American.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986283163701,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801488087","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801488085_79d8c6ef-26cb-436a-a7e7-45b02c4e9466.jpg?v=1778691453","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/brokered-homeland-japanese-brazilian-migrants-in-japan-9780801488085","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}