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As a result of the increase of Japanese-South American migrant workers since the beginning of the 1990s, private Brazilian minority schools in Japan were established to cover the local public education system’s failure to deal with linguistic and cultural differences. They offer Portuguese-medium education according to the Brazilian curriculum and school culture. However, they have failed to provide students a good-quality education aligned with the circular migration process in which their migrantxxvii families continuously alternate between their original and adopted countries.
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Minami, T.A. (2012). The Social Costs of Labor Migration and Global Recession on Brazilian Schools in Japan. In: Urias, D.A. (eds) The Immigration & Education Nexus. Comparative and International Education, vol 12. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-820-9_14
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