Paula Sayuri Yanagiwara
PhD student in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), with a master's degree also in Social Anthropology in which she developed research on the processes of construction of differences between tattoo artists of Japanese descent in Brazil, financed by the Research Support Foundation from the State of São Paulo (Fapesp). He is part of the Japanese Studies Group at the Migration Studies Laboratory (LEM-UFSCar).
Updated March 2018
Stories from This Author
The Freedom to be
March 30, 2018 • Paula Sayuri Yanagiwara
When I began my studies on tattoo artists of Japanese descent in Brazil, in my master's research in Anthropology at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), I had some idea of what lay ahead. It is very complicated to read texts, articles, theories about a group of people – the Japanese and their descendants – of which you are also part. This was because everything evoked memories, experiences, often painful experiences, of prejudice, of racism, and no matter how …
