Of settler colonial connections and collaborations: a book forum on Sidney Xu Lu’s Collaborative Settler Colonialism

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Sidney Xu Lu's book 'Collaborative Settler Colonialism' significantly advances settler colonial studies by analyzing Japanese migration to Brazil during the age of empires. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Janne Lahti

doi:10.1080/2201473x.2026.2695503

August 31, 2026Settler Colonial StudiesOpen Access

Of settler colonial connections and collaborations: a book forum on Sidney Xu Lu’s Collaborative Settler Colonialism

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Examine Sidney Xu Lu's theoretical framework of collaborative settler colonialism in the context of Japanese state-sponsored migration to Brazil during the age of empires.
Conducted a multi-scholar forum analyzing archival sources, historical narratives, and theoretical models from Sidney Xu Lu's monograph.
Synthesized comparative analyses of Japanese and Brazilian state policies regarding land tenure, labor migration, and racial integration.
Characterized Japanese migration to Brazil as an inter-imperial collaboration facilitating agricultural colonization and territorial governance.
Showed that collaborative settler colonialism operated across non-Western and Western imperial lines to dispossess indigenous communities and reorganize global racial hierarchies.

Implication

Critical review reveals collaborative dynamics in Japanese migration to Brazil, highlighting how cross-imperial partnerships expanded transnational settler colonialism.

Abstract

Sidney Xu Lu’s Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires (University of California Press, 2025) makes a significant contribution to settler colonial stud...

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Janne Lahti (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a993592636c6408cfa7df01 https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473x.2026.2695503

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