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Rural-Urban Migration, Aspiration and Life Course Strategies among Youth in East African Local Cities: Ethnographical Study on Highly Educated Youth and Unemployment

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K01860
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Area studies
Research InstitutionHirosaki University

Principal Investigator

SHIRAISHI Soichiro  弘前大学, 人文社会科学部, 准教授 (80512243)

Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywords高学歴化 / 生計戦略 / ライフコース観 / 就業・就学待機 / 地域移動 / 社会移動 / アスピレーション維持 / 東アフリカ / 地域間移動 / 階層間移動 / 社会関係資本 / ライフコース戦略 / 階層移動 / 進路バリエーション / 将来像フレーミング / 潜在的議題としての家財相続
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study concerns the jobless situation among East African youth. Since the governments employ free primary education in the mid-1990s, migration to urban area for schooling became common among youth in villages. This study describes the situation ethnographically, the topics as follows; (1)Social network they utilize in vacant years in the local city and its suburb, (2)maintenance of their aspiration, life-course strategy, and vision. In the period of the research project, I find that(1)They built-up urban social network based on their siblings and friends, which includes a few fellows who has his/her jobs. (2)Refusing return migration to the home village, their most important agendas are; (i) maintenance of aspiration for higher education to be degree holders and better job opportunities, (ii) independent married life in urban areas. Using their friend network, they will seek these agendas while relationship management with parents in home village differ from women to men.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

国際援助から投資へというスキーム転換のもと、東アフリカの首都郊外や地方都市の滞留人口の潜在力は注目されるが、都市滞留人口について、従来はもっぱらスラム拡大の阻止と生活向上にばかり関心が集まってきた。本研究は高学歴滞留人口のポテンシャルについて実証データをもとに読み解こうとするもので、①社会問題化した「高学歴職なし」若年層の実態を明らかにし、②セカンダリ卒以上の学歴層というボリュームゾーンのキャリア・アップ戦略やドロップ・アウトへの対応を検討することができる。また、③地域産業に参入可能な潜在的労働力の質について資料を提供するものである。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All 2019 2018 2017 2016 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (2 results) (of which Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results) Book (5 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] マケレレ大学(ウガンダ)

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 条件不利地域普通科高校の高卒後の移動と地元定着 ―青森県下北郡北通の同窓会調査から2016

    • Author(s)
      白石壮一郎・羽渕一代
    • Journal Title

      人文社会論叢 人文科学篇

      Volume: 35 Pages: 49-95

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] [Book Review] Embedded Mutualism for Co-Living in African Pastoralism: Ethnographic Studies of the Karimojong and Dodoth in Northeastern Uganda. Itsuhiro Hazama, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 20152016

    • Author(s)
      Soichiro SHIRAISHI
    • Journal Title

      Nilo-Ethiopian Studies

      Volume: 21 Pages: 45-47

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Journey toward Social Mobility: Case of Migration and its Success in Kenya- Uganda Borderlands in 1960s-70s2018

    • Author(s)
      Soichiro SHIRAISHI
    • Organizer
      Nordic Africa Days 2018: African Mobilities
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Migration, Education and Family Ties/Gaps: Fragments of a family history in the Uganda-Kenya borderlands, 1960s-1990s2017

    • Author(s)
      Soichiro SHIRAISHI
    • Organizer
      Seminar of JSPS Bi-lateral Research Programme, Faculty of Arts, Makerere University, Uganda
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Mobility and Family-ties: A case in Eastern Uganda and Western Kenya2016

    • Author(s)
      Soichiro SHIRAISHI
    • Organizer
      JSPS Bi-lateral Seminar
    • Place of Presentation
      Makerere University, Uganda
    • Year and Date
      2016-08-30
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 地域間移動と家族・家郷意識、地元定着2016

    • Author(s)
      白石壮一郎
    • Organizer
      F研(フィールド研究会)
    • Place of Presentation
      弘前大学人文学部
    • Year and Date
      2016-01-29
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 遊牧の思想:人類学がみる激動のアフリカ2019

    • Author(s)
      太田至・曽我亨 編(北村光二・内藤直樹・杉山祐子・湖中真哉・波佐間逸博・河合香吏・佐川徹・川口博子・目黒紀夫・中村香子・孫暁剛・泉直亮・楠和樹・稲角暢・羽渕一代・関根悠里・作道信介・白石壮一郎・庄司航・松隈俊佑)
    • Total Pages
      400
    • Publisher
      昭和堂
    • ISBN
      9784812218242
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] サイレント・マジョリティとは誰か:フィールドから学ぶ地域社会学2018

    • Author(s)
      川端浩平・安藤丈将 編(轡田竜蔵・芦田祐介・打越正行・白石壮一郎・稲津秀樹・大橋文恵)
    • Total Pages
      197
    • Publisher
      ナカニシヤ出版
    • ISBN
      9784779512964
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Diversification and Reorganization of ‘Family’ in Uganda and Kenya: A Cross-cultural Analysis2018

    • Author(s)
      SHIINO Wakana, SHIRAISHI Soichiro and MPYANGU M. Christine Eds.
    • Total Pages
      169
    • Publisher
      Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 社会問題と出会う2017

    • Author(s)
      白石壮一郎・椎野若菜 編
    • Total Pages
      216
    • Publisher
      古今書院
    • ISBN
      9784772271288
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Re-Finding African Local Assets and City Environments: Governance, Research and Reflexivity2016

    • Author(s)
      Wakana SHIINO, Soichiro SHIRAISHI & Tom ONDICHO Eds.
    • Total Pages
      289
    • Publisher
      Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University pf Foreign Studies
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 弘前大学研究者総覧

    • URL

      http://hue2.jm.hirosaki-u.ac.jp/html/100000860_ja.html

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Nairobi Field Station of Kyoto University, Japan

    • URL

      http://kenya-fs-kyoto-u.main.jp/shiraishi/

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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