Identidades culturais em imigrantes de segunda geração: Os filhos de Pedrinhas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

As contradições da globalização: os centros de confinamento para os imigrantes ilegais na Itália

Social theory is challenged to understand the density and complexity of social phenomena that arise from globalization. It is extremely important that social theory seeks to understand the meaning of war as a means of solving political conflicts and the flow of immigrants to major economic powers, which afflicts mankind. The aim of this paper is to understand the meaning of the social changes that alter and transform the society and the forms of community, having as object Italy and the immigration policy developed since the nineties.

A nação diáspórica japonesa em Brazi-Maru, de Karen Tei Yamashita

From a reading of the novel Brazil-Maru by Karen Tei Yamashita, this article focuses mainly on discussing about Japanese colonies’formation in Brazil, as well as the reasons that stimulated Japanese immigrants to invest their efforts in the process of this new undertaking. Some peculiarities between nucleous in the countryside of the state of São Paulo and Esperança’s community formation of this novel will be discussed and compared in the present work. The theoretical supports about the concept of Nation by Ernest Renan and the concept of Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson compose the theoretical basis for understanding the constitution of Japanese diasporic nation in Brazil.