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This book presents an ethnographic portrait of transnational Japanese-Brazilian labor migrants and their families as they navigate life between Japan and Brazil. The author pays particular attention to gender, generation, and class, and to structures besides work such as family, education, and religion.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACRONYMS -- INTRODUCTION: Ethnographies of the Brazilian Unraveling -- CRITICAL OVERVIEW: A Plan for a Country Still Looking for Democracy -- Part I: THE INTIMACY OF POWER -- 1. "FAMILY IS EVERYTHING": Generational Tensions as a Working-Class Household from Recife, Brazil, Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections -- 2. AMONG MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: Economic Mobility and Political Identity in a Northeastern Periferia -- 3. DREAMING WITH GUNS: Performing Masculinity and Imagining Consumption in Bolsonaro's Brazil -- 4. WHITENESS HAS COME OUT OF THE CLOSET AND INTENSIFIED BRAZIL'S REACTIONARY WAVE -- Part II. CORRUPTION AND CRIME -- 5. CRUEL PESSIMISM: The Affect of Anticorruption and the End of the New Brazilian Middle Class -- 6. THE EFFECTS OF SOME RELIGIOUS AFFECTS: Revolutions in Crime -- 7. "LOOK AT THAT": Cures, Poisons, and Shifting Rationalities in the Backlands That Have Become a Sea (of Money) -- 8. "THE OIL IS OURS": Petro-Affect and the Scandalization of Politics -- Part III. INFRASTRUCTURES OF HOPE -- 9. DESPAIRING HOPES (AND HOPEFUL DESPAIR) IN AMAZONIA -- 10. TEMPERED HOPES: (Re)producing the Middle Class in Recife's Alternative Music Scene -- 11. WITHERING DREAMS: Material Hope and Apathy among Brazil's Once-Rising Poor -- 12. BOLSONARO WINS JAPAN: Support for the Far Right among Japanese Brazilian Overseas Labor Migrants -- Part IV. OLD CHALLENGES, NEW ACTIVISM -- 13. HOLDING THE WAVE: Black LGBTI+ Feminist Resilience amid the Reactionary Turn in Rio de Janeiro -- 14. LGBTTI ELDERS IN BRAZIL: Subjectivation and Narratives about Resilience, Resistance, and Vulnerability -- 15. DISGUST AND DEFIANCE: The Visceral Politics of Trans and Travesti Activism amid a Heteronormative Backlash -- 16. "BARBIE E KEN CIDADÃOS DE BEM": Memes and Political Participation among College Students in Brazil -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX