ABSTRACT
This chapter documents various kinds of transnational strategies taken by Brazilians of Japanese descent (called Nikkei) who increasingly migrate back and forth between Japan and Brazil following the so-called dekassegui migration boom that began in the late 1980s.1 Over 250,000 Brazilians currently reside in Japan, mostly as manual labourers working in factories, but their lives have increasingly diversified in recent years.2 This chapter presents a case study of a Japanese-Brazilian transnational business enterprise and the role played by various ethnic actors – the master, the worker, and the entrepreneur.3
