Qualitative analysis reveals Japanese immigrants' adaptation experiences in Brazil, suggesting new insights into immigrant identity formation.
The goal of this work is to understand the experiences of the Japanese immigrants in the process of separation from their native land and the encounter with Brazilian lands.We attempted to recover the memories that were retained and confront them with the new situation found in Brazil.From this confrontation, we sought to understand how the adaptation occurred and how was the relationship between the idealized images brought from Japan and the ones experienced in Brazil , for the construction of a bond with the new land.The research is based on psychoanalysis, and the object of analysis is the narratives of ten Japanese immigrants that came to Brazil from 1908 to 1941, which reveals a sample of people
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