Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires
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2025
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University of California Press
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Though Japanese migration to Brazil started only at the turn of the twentieth century, Brazil is now the country with the largest ethnic Japanese population outside Japan. Collaborative Settler Colonialism examines this history as a central chapter of both Brazil’s and Japan’s processes of nation and empire building and, crucially, as a convergence of their settler colonial projects. Inspired by American colonialism and the final conquest of the U.S. Western frontier, Brazilian and Japanese empire builders collaborated to bring Japanese migrants to Brazil, which had the outcome of simultaneously dispossessing Indigenous Brazilians of their land and furthering the expansion of Japanese land and resource possession abroad. Bringing discourses of Latin American and Japanese settler colonialism into rare dialogue with each other, this book offers new insight into the Japanese empire, the history of immigration to Brazil and Latin America, and the past and present of settler colonialism.
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Settler colonialism—Brazil—History—20th century, Foreign workers, Japanese—Brazil—History—20th century
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Xu Lu, S. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.221
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