Can aMestiçabe aHaafu? Japanese-Brazilian Female Migrants and the Celebration of Racial Mixing in Contemporary Japan

Autor:	Tamaki Watarai
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Mixed race History Negotiation Sociology and Political Science Print media media_common.quotation_subject Mainstream Gender studies Sociology Construct (philosophy) Inclusion (education) media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Intercultural Studies. 35:662-676
ISSN:	1469-9540 0725-6868
DOI:	10.1080/07256868.2014.967188
Popis:	This paper reveals how young Japanese-Brazilian female migrants living and working in ‘contact zones’ construct and negotiate their identities where they are categorised and expected to carry out certain behaviours/performances. It does so by drawing on interviews of Japanese-Brazilian models working in Japan. After arriving in Japan, Japanese-Brazilian female migrants learn that being mestica in Brazil can be valorised as ‘haafu’, and they aspire to work as haafu moderu (‘fashion model’) for Japanese print media. It will be shown that the labelling of Japanese-Brazilian fashion models as haafu functions as a mode of inclusion in Japanese society, but it also functions as a mode of exclusion if they fail to perform the haafu that mainstream Japanese expect.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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