| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MISHIMA Tiko NME, Dpt. of Social Research, Research fellow, 民族社会研究部, 助手 (20280604)
MINAMI Makito NME, Dpt. of Social Research, Research fellow, 民族社会研究部, 助手 (40239314)
OGURA Mitsuo University of Tudajuku, Dpt of Arts, Professor, 文芸学部, 教授 (40055322)
TAKAHATA Sachi Osaka Metropolitan University, Dpt. of Philosophy, JSPF fellow, 日本学術振興会 特別研究員
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| Research Abstract |
There is a great diversity of current international migrations, in accordance with the globalization of economy and social system, and developing facilities for transportation and communication. Modern migrants do not live in the host society passively as a guest nor in the form of ethnic enclave, but relate to the host society actively putting transnational networks among ethnicities to practical use.
In this study, we made a research about self-help practices and various transnational networks among the migrants in micro level, which are Vietnamese in Japan and Finland (Shoji), people in South Africa and Zambia (Ogura), Nepalese in Japan (Minami), Soninke in Asian mega cities (Mishima), Philippines in Japan and Australia (Takahata) and Japanese in Finland (Lansisalmi).
In the course of the studies which were carried out both in their home and host communities in Europe, Africa and Asia including Japan, each focusing on economy (globalization of capital), history (colonialism and the world system), languages, gender and identities, we could reveal some crucial facts relating to the reality and characteristics of global networks among each people. The results of the studies showed, as a whole, that migrants are taking an active part economically and mentally in the host society, resorting to their ethnicity and "originality", both of which, however, are apt to vacillate, particularly in the age of globalization. Moreover, such networks had been expanding from the bilateral relation between home community and destination to the multilateral relations among plural nations.
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