Workbook
For Japanese Brazilian Families
Dekassegui, Dual Identity, and the Family That Lives in Two Languages
This workbook helps you document both Brazilian and Japanese identity.
For the Adults from Japanese Brazilian families — the Nikkei community of Brazil and those who have migrated to Japan as dekassegui workers — who want to understand and document what Japanese Brazilian identity means across generations, languages, and two countries that each claim them partially.
The Name It First Experience
Japanese Brazilian families carry one of the most complex dual identities in the Americas: descendants of Japanese immigrants who built one of the world's largest Nikkei communities in Brazil, many of whom then migrated back to Japan as dekassegui workers — only to find they weren't Japanese enough. This workbook examines what Japanese Brazilian families live with: the Japanese cultural practices maintained in Brazil across four generations, the experience of going to Japan and being treated as Brazilian, and what Nikkei means when the anchor country no longer recognizes you. Document your family's specific story.
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Sample questions
- What does Nikkei mean in your specific family — the Japanese cultural practices maintained in Brazil across generations, the dekassegui experience, or something that belongs only to you?
- What happened to your sense of belonging when you or your family went to Japan — and what did that teach you about identity?
- What do you want the next generation to hold from both sides of who you are?
Research basis
Grounded in Berry (1997) acculturation theory, Brah (1996) diaspora cartographies, Tsuda (2003) scholarship on dekassegui migration and Nikkei identity in Japan, and Maeyama (1996) research on Japanese Brazilian ethnic identity formation.
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