Collaborative Settler Colonialism

"Sidney Xu Lu's riveting account of Japanese emigration to Brazil tells of indigenous dispossession, precarious alliances, fascism and war, and the fates of empires and revolutions. He weaves together multiple threads in this brilliant portrait of two states and their intersecting projects of racialized nationalism and settler colonialism."—Louise Young, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison

"This is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Japan's expansionism in Brazil. Tracing migrations and their legacies across the twentieth century, Lu shows how the largest overseas community of Japanese descent came to develop through what he powerfully calls 'collaborative settler colonialism.' An essential resource for students and researchers."—Martin Dusinberre, author of Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories

"Lu's innovative new book brings a fresh understanding to the global dynamics behind Japanese immigration to Brazil through its focus on how state and non-state actors were enmeshed in longer histories of race and racism in the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. This book is an important contribution to the study of transnational studies of migration, diaspora, and colonialism."—Jeffrey Lesser, author of Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil

"In this impressive follow-up to his outstanding The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism, Lu explores the concepts of 'collaborative settler colonialism' and the 'migration state.' This is an eye-opening comparative study of unintentional collaboration and the intricate connections among migration, the modern concept of racial hierarchy, and settler-colonialist expansion in modern Japan and Brazil."—Ignacio López-Calvo, author of Japanese Brazilian Saudades: Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production