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MADE IN BRAZIL, CONSUMED IN JAPAN: AN EXAMINATION OF ECONOMIC SUBJECTIVITIES AND CONSUMPTION PLACES OF NIKKEI IMMIGRANTS IN JAPAN

Scott, Dorris
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1208549280

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2008, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Geography.
This thesis will explore the consumption places of NikkeiBrazilian immigrants in Japan as they pertain to the creation of subjectivities. Currently, there are about 286,557 Brazilians in Japan. The main driving force behind Japan accepting a large influx of Brazilian immigrants has to do with how the Japanese government constructs the economic and cultural subjectivities of the Brazilians. The reason that these Brazilians are able to immigrate to Japan is because they are of Japanese blood (Nikkei), thus they are considered returnees as opposed to immigrants. By doing this, the Japanese government still can uphold its stance of being a self-dependent homogeneous country and fulfill demands of unskilled labor without opening its borders completely. Because a large number of Nikkei work in factories, some Japanese create subjectivities of Brazilians that is bound to the factories; in other words, some Japanese believe that the Brazilians are only capable of doing factory work.
Shawn Banasick (Advisor)
Dave Kaplan (Other)
Jim Tyner (Other)
116 p.
Geography
Japan; Brazil; immigration; transnationalism

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  • Scott, D. (2008). MADE IN BRAZIL, CONSUMED IN JAPAN: AN EXAMINATION OF ECONOMIC SUBJECTIVITIES AND CONSUMPTION PLACES OF NIKKEI IMMIGRANTS IN JAPAN [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1208549280

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Scott, Dorris. MADE IN BRAZIL, CONSUMED IN JAPAN: AN EXAMINATION OF ECONOMIC SUBJECTIVITIES AND CONSUMPTION PLACES OF NIKKEI IMMIGRANTS IN JAPAN. 2008. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1208549280.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Scott, Dorris. "MADE IN BRAZIL, CONSUMED IN JAPAN: AN EXAMINATION OF ECONOMIC SUBJECTIVITIES AND CONSUMPTION PLACES OF NIKKEI IMMIGRANTS IN JAPAN." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1208549280

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