The focus of this article is to address and argue about some issues related to the constructs of identity and culture in the Japanese immigration process in Brazil, mainly in the Southern parts of the country. We examined the effects of political measures for the development of Japanese stereotypes, especially considering some attempts of repression and the perceptible silencing in some of these policies. In this perspective, this paper also presents analysis of the representations and discourses built during the Japanese migration flow to Brazil regarding the character/image of the "Japanese stereotype". Therefore, it is also intended to present how the immigratory transit movements, mobilities and displacements can be reflected in their identity representations, symbolic revealed through language, in discursive constructions.
Applied Linguistics; Japanese immigration in Brazil; identity; stereotype