Os japoneses no Pará: um estudo sobre a formação de identidades

Abstract

This MD paper studies the socialization of the descendent generations os Japanese immigrants born in the colony of Tomé-Açú/PA starting from the understanding of the meaning and representation of the (e)immigration, as well as the means by which they are inserted in the Brazilian and Pará’s society and, to establish the explanatory links forms by which families socialize the new generations. The analysis of the empiric material is based on the paths of life of the immigrant families that impelled by extreme poverty in Japan immigrated to the state of Pará settling in the colony of Tomé-Açú. It is reconstitutes the. families kinship networks from their departure from Japan, it is poissible to unveil the reproduction of values and perceptions in the sociability networks that will allow immigrants and their descendants to insert themselves in social local domain.