| Project/Area Number |
22K01047
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 04020:Human geography-related
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
コルナトウスキ ヒェラルド 九州大学, 比較社会文化研究院, 准教授 (00614835)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2026-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2024)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Keywords | solidarity hubs / migration / voluntary sector / East Asia / urban geography / Solidarity hubs / Inner city / Social inequality / Third sector geographies / Fukuoka / Yokohama / Singapore / Diversity / Japan / Urban geography / Migrant workers / Transient communities |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This research focuses on the diversifying content of voluntary service initiatives for temporal migrants through the lens of 'solidarity hubs', i.e., loosely organized voluntary services that function as frontline social infrastructure based on personal motivations of solidarity and care. I use a comparative set of two city-regions to analyze the diverse service efforts for migrant workers in need and to consider their implication for common concepts of diversity and social co-existence.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Being the main organizer of the 11th EARCAG conference in Fukuoka, I have tentatively discussed my research results by means of co-organizing a special session on "Current Geographies of Asian Migration: Politics, Solidarities, and Struggles of People and Places in Transition". We focused on Asian migration regimes in terms of the highly transient nature of employment contracts the role of the state engaging in both exclusionary and inclusionary policies. In line with the overall objective of this research projects, we highlighted place-based strategies devised by migrants and voluntary sector agencies to secure housing, find and change jobs, access health and other services, and how such strategies relate to notions of territorial justice in general and solidarity hubs in particular.
I have also published my results in two book chapters and at several international and domestic conferences. In these achievements I have mainly discussed the organizational mechanisms of solidarity hubs at play in the geographical contexts of Fukuoka's and Yokohama's inner city. As such, these results are also attempts to contribute to the urban theory of both cities as they are comparatively understudied in the Japanese context.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
While able to continue fieldwork in Fukuoka, Yokohama, and Osaka, my task as main organizer of the 2025 EARCAG conference has prevented me to conclude my fieldwork study on the Singaporean case, which I will conduct in the FY 2025.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Building further on the fieldwork I conducted in FY 2023, I will conclude my survey on the Singaporean solidarity hubs. The main point of analysis will be on the recent emergence of solidarity networks that cater for foreign workers outside the established volunteer sector geographies of Little India and Geylang. Besides this survey, I will continue my fieldwork on the Japanese cases, as the content of services continue to be updated according to the changing needs of foreign populations, something this research has also investigated through previous questionnaire surveys. The final results will be submitted to international journals.
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