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Transnational Kinship in the Margins of Citizenship: The Case of Nikkei Brazilians in Japan

Transnational Kinship in the Margins of Citizenship: The Case of Nikkei Brazilians in Japan

Update: 2020-11-16
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[Recorded 14th October 2020] Kinship is a restrictive and yet mutable logic by which many nation-states in East Asia nationalize transnational mobility today. This talk elucidates the seemingly paradoxical but deeply systemic stratification of citizenship intensified by kinship-based migrations, by examining the case of Brazilians in contemporary Japan. At first glance, the kin-based incorporation connotes acceptance: “they” are “us.” Yet the partial inclusion grounded on the idiom of blood ironically preserves perpetual exclusion of those migrants who must seek belonging in a corporeal idiom of family. [NOTE: original presentation contained an 8min video in Porteugeuse with English Subtitles. This part has been edited from the audio pending permission from those involved in the video] Suma Ikeuchi is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her first book, "Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migration and Global Pentecostalism in the Brazilian Diaspora", was published by Stanford University Press in 2019.
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Transnational Kinship in the Margins of Citizenship: The Case of Nikkei Brazilians in Japan

Transnational Kinship in the Margins of Citizenship: The Case of Nikkei Brazilians in Japan

Suma Ikeuchi, Assistant Professor Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California Santa Barbara