Define the term “Dekasegi”

Dekasegi means “away from home” or “temporary migrant worker”. This is a term which has been used to refer to unskilled people who migrated from Brazil to Japan to escape economic instability in Brazil and take advantage of higher demand of unskilled labor in Japan. According to the source, the term Dekasegi is being used for immigrants from Brazil because they often used to migrate to Japan temporarily with the intention to go back to their homeland after earning enough money.