Família e identidades: um casamento entre uma descendente de imigrantes italianos e um descendente de imigrantes japoneses, no século XX, no interior de São Paulo

Abstract

This research analyzes a network of people from the same family of descendants of immigrants originated from a meeting between Italian and Japanese descendants, and the purpose of the study is to analyze, from the perspective of collective memory and cultural identity, the processes of building the identities of the subjects inserted in this group, being these identities examined in terms of their migratory origin. It was opted for the oral history method to analyze the conflicts and identity negotiations lived by each family member, revealed by the analysis of life narratives of nineteen people interviewed, who make up three generations of the studied family, as a result of the union between Concetta Campopiano, a granddaughter of Italian immigrants, and Mituioce Sumida, a son of Japanese immigrants, both born in São Paulo in the 1920s. It was added the fact that the researcher is also a family member, grandson of the couple who generated the study group, a fact that adds a theoretical-methodological research challenge.

Postcolonial social drama: The case of Brazilian dentists in Portugal

“…A feeling of solidarity that comes from a sense of partaking in a common colonial history and language, despite unequal political and economic positions, has been synchronous with the need to create distinct postcolonial national identities and follow different nation-building projects. Such simultaneity of closeness and separation has resulted in the perception that Luso-Brazilian relationships contain an unusual and special kind of ambivalence, making it difficult to institute a clear division between the categories of Portuguese and Brazilian (Feldman-Bianco, 2001a, 2001b; Rocha-Trindade and Fiori, 2009; Santos, 2006; Xavier, 2007).…”