Transnational Schooling as Integration: The Case of Nikkei Brazilians in Brazil and Japan

• In Event: Worldwide Lens on Enabling the Disadvantaged and Marginalized Through Education and Support

Abstract

To expand the discussion of how schools are changing to accommodate the needs of immigrant origin students, I offer a conceptual framework for analyzing organization of school programs that accounts for the resources and processes—social, cultural, economic, legal and political—that youth serving organizations and their organizers negotiate between host and home countries via networks that transcend national borders. I illustrate the framework through the case of Nikkei-Brazilian schools in Brazil and Japan and how the structures, policies, and practices of such schools are organized and how they influence the societal and academic integration of youth across Brazil and Japan.

Author

• Anna Sera, Indiana University