Japanese colonization in Santa Catarina: Metamorphoses in immigration under tutelage

Authors

  • André Souza Martinello Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Ely Bergo de Carvalho Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Abstract

In this four-hand-paper we analyze some changes in Japanese immigration to Brazil taking the State of Santa Catarina in the 1960’s and 1970’s as a case study. Using sources produced by the State and also newspapers and interviews, we show how Japanese people were represented as immigrants who were going to “modernize” the countryside, justifying State support for them. Thus, in Santa Catarina the nikkei immigration does not follow the model of tutored immigration which existed before the Second World War, with strong participation of the Japanese government; nevertheless, by other means discussed in this paper, some “tutorage” does occur and attracts the Japanese.

Key words: immigration under tutelage, colonization, land reform, Japanese immigrants in Brazil.

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Published

2011-12-23

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2011): September/December

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