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The bulk of existing scholarship on Japanese communities in Brazil has been written through the lens of ethnography and generally falls into the domain of ethnic studies in Latin America. My research, on the other hand, shows that the history of Japanese migration and community-building in Brazil was marked by a long-term partnership between Japanese immigrants and the Brazilian government in the latter’s efforts of land colonization. From the perspective of settler colonialism, it also explores the intersections in the histories of Japan and Brazil, and the historical convergence of Asia and Latin America in general.

Sidney Lu is a social and cultural historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century East Asia, with research interests in the areas of migration, settler colonialism, gender, race, and trans-Pacific connections. He is the author of the book -The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961- that illustrates the relationship among Malthusianism, trans-Pacific emigration, and colonial expansion in the history of modern Japan. His second and forthcoming book- Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires- that examines the history of Japanese migration and community building in Brazil from global and comparative perspectives.

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