Dekassegui, immigrant labor and their transversalities

• Grant number: 16/13499-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: October 28, 2016
• End date: October 27, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Luiz Coltro Antunes
• Grantee: Mariana Shinohara Roncato
• Supervisor: Nanako Inaba
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Sophia University, Japan
• Associated to the scholarship: 14/14531-0 - Japan's working poor: dekassegui immigrant labor and their transversalities, BP.DR

Abstract

The following research project goals to analyze the interrelation dynamic between class, race/ethnicity and gender aspects in Brazilians' immigrant labor in Japan. Currently, more than 170 thousand Brazilians lives in Japan, mostly inserted in industrial sector and in jobs that are considered precarious, with low social protection, high level of informality and low mobility inside the job market. Reports of sexual and racial discrimination are also verified on dekassegui's daily routine. The woman condition is greatly aggravated by low payments, sometimes it is 30% less than the men worker's payment. The sexual division of labor makes the dekasseguis women to work more, earning less and having a higher exposure to sexual and racial oppressions. In this research proposal is intended to do a field research with dekasseguis inserted in the transformation industry sector, in order to understand how the interrelation dynamic between class, race/ethnicity and gender appears in the Japanese case. We have as hypothesis that the interrelation dynamic between those categories can increase the exploration-domination of those subjects.