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Lili Kawamura[1]
This study is about recent changes in the migratory process of Brazilian descendents from Japanese people to Japan. We will discuss about social and cultural aspects of migrants living in their own social spaces and the role of networks between Brazil and Japan.
The diversifications of the labor market and the living styles have developed the settlement of Brazilian spaces inside Japan, built by migrants themselves. This process allows Brazilian cultural manifestations inside those Brazilian migrant spaces in Japan, situation that avoids conflicts and disagreement with their Japanese neighborhood. Why does a higher integration within the Brazilian migrants themselves cause an increasing gap between them and the Japanese population? Why does it occur despite of their mutual cultural influences?
The different social and economic position of Brazilian migrants in Japan has divided them into two categories: rich (entrepreneurs, professionals, artists) and poor (worker, workless, homeless). This process had been reinforced by international economic crisis and natural disaster in Japan. May we suppose that Brazilian social inequality is now present among Brazilian migrants in Japan?
Even with those problems, migratory processes between Japan and Brazil follow happening. Some reasons may be the presence of facilities and infrastructure in Brazilian community in Japan. Examples of these facilities include business, education, communication, kinship, leisure, sports and home activities. Otherwise, difficulties to get a work, to adapt and to live in a different Brazil push the migrants again to Japan. “Going and coming” are associated to the idea of “transitoriness”: dreams, objectives and happiness are waiting for better conditions in another place (Brazil or Japan).
Contradictory, social networks for Brazilian migrants have created conditions for displacement as well as for settlement of those migrants in Japan.