Identidade social em movimento: a comunidade japonesa na Grande Vitória (ES)

• Autor(a) principal: Suda, Joyce Rumi
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3052
• topic: Japanese Immigration; Social Identity; Prejudice; Adaptation; Identidade social; Adaptação; Preconceito; Psicologia; Adaptabilidade (Psicologia); Etnocentrismo; Identidade (Psicologia); Japoneses; Migração; Vitória, Região Metropolitana de (ES); 159.9

The objective of the present work was to identify the social identity of Japanese residents in Vitória (State of Espírito Santo, Brazil), from discourses about the group itself and its quotidian relations, also verifying the existence of indications of prejudice or discriminatory treatment. Twenty subjects, Japanese or descendants, from both sexes, young and adult, participated in the research. Data was collected through interviews that explored the following themes: dating and conjugality, aesthetic patterns, prejudice and stereotype, social identity and adaptation. The results indicated the existence of similarities and differences with respect to the identity of Capixaba Japanese (Capixaba being the designation of people from Espírito Santo State), defined through comparison with the identitary characteristics of Japanese in other states. The main similarity identified was the flexibility of the social identity of the Nippo-Brazilian, which allows the Japanese to utilize the Japanese identity in some situations and a Brazilian identity in other situations, always trying to maintain a positive social identity. The main difference that characterizes the local Japanese was the appropriation of characteristics attributed to the Capixaba: calmer, more reserved and more “normal” than people from other states. Some indicatives of discrimination and prejudice against local Japanese were also found. Both receptivity and adaptation to the local context were considered good, although there was still indication of a certain friction from both groups, with respect to each other. Some factors, like the later immigration to the State, the reduced number of Japanese, and a Japanese community economically homogeneous seems to affect the kind of relations established between the Capixabas and the Japanese and, consequently, the construction of social identities.