Dekasegi ( pt, decassegui, decasségui, , ) is a term that is used in
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
to refer to people, primarily
Japanese Brazilians
, , lead=yes are Brazilian citizens who are nationals or naturals of Japanese ancestry or Japanese immigrants living in Brazil or Japanese people of Brazilian ancestry.
The first group of Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1908. Brazil i ...
, who have migrated to
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...
, having taken advantage of
Japanese citizenship or ''
nisei visa'' and immigration laws to work short-term in Japan.
The original Japanese word roughly translates as "working away from home". This can cause annoyance to those of Japanese descent who were born abroad, but have come to regard Japan as their permanent home and therefore object to being regarded by Japanese (in Japan) as ''
gaijin
is a Japanese word for foreigners and non-Japanese citizens in Japan, specifically being applied to foreigners of non-Japanese ethnicity and those from the Japanese diaspora who are not Japanese citizens. The word is composed of two kanji: and ...
'' or foreigners.
There are approximately 200,000 such people in Japan from Brazil alone.
Language
Some Brazilians are bilingual in
Japanese and
Portuguese, but many are monolingual in
Portuguese alone when they first come to Japan and face additional challenges due to this language barrier.
Many
code-switch to Japanese when speaking Portuguese.
Dekasseguês – the mix of Portuguese and Japanese spoken by the dekasegi – Isto é Japão!
Retrieved January 12, 2015.
See also
* Ethnic groups of Japan
*Issei
is a Japanese-language term used by ethnic Japanese in countries in North America and South America to specify the Japanese people who were the first generation to immigrate there. are born in Japan; their children born in the new country are ...
, Nisei, Sansei and Yonsei
*Japanese Brazilian
, , lead=yes are Brazilian citizens who are nationals or naturals of Japanese ancestry or Japanese immigrants living in Brazil or Japanese people of Brazilian ancestry.
The first group of Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1908. Brazil i ...
*Japanese people
The are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago."人類学上は，旧石器時代あるいは縄文時代以来，現在の北海道〜沖縄諸島（南西諸島）に住んだ集団を祖先にもつ人々。" () Ja ...
* Language minority students in Japanese classrooms
*Migrant worker
A migrant worker is a person who migrates within a home country or outside it to pursue work. Migrant workers usually do not have the intention to stay permanently in the country or region in which they work.
Migrant workers who work outsi ...
References
External links
*Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The is an executive department of the Government of Japan, and is responsible for the country's foreign policy and international relations.
The ministry was established by the second term of the third article of the National Government Organ ...
( MOFA)
Future Policy Regarding Cooperation with Overseas Communities of NikkeiPortal for 100-20 years of immigration between Japan and Brazil, Rare pictures
Brazilian diaspora in Japan
Society of Japan
Ethnic groups in Japan
Migrant workers
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