1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Political Participation and Voting Right of Foreigners
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08620054
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | Hitotsubashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAJITA Takamichi Hitotsubashi University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor, 社会学部, 教授 (10133357)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1996 – 1997
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| Keywords | foreigner / immigrant / voting right / citizenship / denizen / nationality / multiculturalism / transnational |
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| Research Abstract |
In several Western countries, the voting right of foreigners is already realized. In Japan, this voting right of foreigners is now being closed up.In this reserch, I analyzed sociological consequences of voting right in Europe. I also analyzed how the foreigners do not want to use this right activly, and what is the relation between foreiners' voting right and domestic political party system. As for the Japanese case, I found several interesting points. (1) The movements for voting right are promoted in grass-roots style by foreign settlers themselves. (2) All foreign settlers do not want to have this voting right. Some foreigners are against this voting right because it accelerate the assimilation. (3) Japaneses living in foreign countries (ex.U.S.A.) want to have the voting right in Japan. (4) As for this voting right of foreign settlers, the opinions of Japanese people are not homogenious. (5) At the end of 1989s, many ethnic Japaneses (Nikkei jin) began to come to Japan and this fact adds the new element to this theme. The political participation of foreigners must be analyzed generally including this kind of 'ethnic migrants'.
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