Comparative Study about Helitage Language of Secound Generation of Immigrants as Social Asset

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K04379
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Kanagawa University
• Principal Investigator: Haino Sumiko 神奈川大学, 人間科学部, 非常勤講師 (30747001)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 継承語としてのポルトガル語 / 在外ブラジル人 / 在日ブラジル人 / ブラジル女性移住者

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This comparative study aims to clarify a significance of Portuguese as Heritage Language (PHL) for Brazilian immigrants living in US, Europe and Japan. Through the analysis of data obtained through exchanges with Brazilian women educators of PHL, academic documents and fieldwork at complementary schools of PHL, I found that this education is realized not only to transmit their language or culture but also to cultivate intercultural proficiency of Brazilian descendant children. This education also secure their raison d'etre as a minority in their host countries. It means that PHL is a personal asset also for educators.
To institutionalize the heritage language (HL) education in Japan the widespread recognition in European society about HL as social asset should be referenced.

Free Research Field

異文化間教育学、移民研究