EXPERIENCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERCEPTIONS OF JAPANESE MIGRANTS IN SOUTHERN BRASIL, YEARS 1950-1970

Abstract

Japanese migrants moving through the states of southern Brazil (1956-1978) reveal perceptions of the environment, accumulated through the experience in dealing with land. The rise in Japan and the previous passage through Parana and Rio Grande do Sul, before settling in Santa Catarina, allowed contact with different geographical, climatic and cultural configurations, which made their adaptation to the place easier. For having practiced agriculture in other states, they had kept in memory information that were useful for noticing differences in relation to areas of worked land