Diaspora ohne Heimat: Einfluss der Rückkehrmigration auf japanische Auswanderergemeinschaften in Südamerika

Abstract

Currently more than 2.5 million Americans living on the South and North American continents are Nikkei or descendants of Japanese migrants. The history of their forefathers’ emigration, particularly to Northern America and Brazil, has attracted considerable scholarly attention. Their interest in issues of living in the diaspora, the meaning of ethnicity and citizenship has been renewed by the recent wave of sojourner migration by Latin Americans of Japanese origin into Japan. Virtually nothing is known so far about the Japanese settle Show more