Composite Strategies for Local Cohabitation of Compact Migrants from the Federated States of Micronesia

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K03273
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: Utsunomiya University
• Principal Investigator: Karakita Yasuyuki 宇都宮大学, 国際学部, 名誉教授 (80204650)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 文化的アイデンティティ / 適応戦略 / 自由連合 / ミクロネシア / ヤップ離島

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Compact of Free Association between the Unites States and Federated States of Micronesia in 1986 produced the current of Compact migrants. This ethnographic study clarifies ambivalent mutual relationship between local host societies and Yapese Outer Island migrant communities on Guam and Hawaii (Big Island).
The hostile US policy against the compact migrants produced both negative attitudes and supportive movements towards migrant communities within hosting local societies. Furthermore, the migrant themselves selects both their own cultural elements and host cultural value in order to achieves their social position in the host societies. We cannot fully understand hosts and migrants relationship simply in terms of mono or bi-culturalism.

Free Research Field

文化人類学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

現在，ミクロネシア自由連合移民に関する米国の政策は地域のレベルで移民とホスト社会の軋轢を引き起こしている。他方ホスト社会が示す移民への反発や支援が移民社会の文化的アイデンティティに基づく組織化の契機となっている。本研究は移民，支援者，行政等の具体的なエージェントの活動を詳細に示し、移民が活動する地域社会が特定の局面では同化主義であると同時に，異なる局面では多文化主義的になることを明らかにし，同化主義・多文化主義の二元論を越える理論的貢献の可能性を示した。