2018 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Building a New Paradigm of Disaster Management for Foreign Residents: a Cross-National Study of Japan, the United States, Australia and Canada
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17K12611
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
WHITNEY JUSTIN 名古屋大学, アジアサテライトキャンパス学院(法), 特任准教授 (40402391)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
リンリー マシュー 名古屋大学, 国際機構, 特任教授 (90574997)
Green David 名城大学, 法学部, 准教授 (90706813)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | Emergency Preparedness / Migrant populations / Vulnerability |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In May 2018, the lead researcher:1) Underwent training for database development. The development of the database of best practice for Emergency Preparedness Outreach Policy is well underway.2) conducted interviews with key policy stakeholders in Australia, and identified stakeholders for forthcoming fieldwork on the East Coast of Australia. A teleconference was held with the Australian Government representatives, focusing on elements of the Sendai Framework. An MOU was signed with Nagoya City to analyze survey of Foreign Residents. This analysis has shed light on blind-spots in emergency management policy relating to foreign residents. A publication based on this research is nearing completion. Multiple video conferences held, and International planning-meeting was held in December.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
At the time of receiving the grant, none of researchers were permanent staff. Contractual arrangements saw the employment status of all three researchers change, leading to unforeseen delays in the project over the past 12 months. The lead researcher has returned to his home country and one of the other researchers moved away from Nagoya University.
While these changes have impeded progress somewhat, they have also presented the team with some additional opportunities. For example, we now expect to be able to obtain a greater amount of interviews and data from Australia, given the broad network the lead researcher has been able to develop in his new position in the emergency management sector.
We anticipate the completion of the database framework and a working system by the end of 2019. Publications are progressing well.
We anticipate an additional intensive round of data collection and collation in October this year to add to our growing data-set containing outreach policy.
We are also developing a rubric for analysing best practice policy, which is close to completion.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Given the change in location of the lead researcher, the team is able to spread its focus more evenly on Japan and Australia. We intend to continue collecting the policy data in these two countries over the next 6 months, after which the supporting researchers will add some representative policy data from their respective countries. This process is collecting well.
The rubric will be piloted within the next few months for analysing Japanese policies targeting foreign residents. We have identified blind spots in Japanese policy-making and evidence of similar problems in Australia. We believe that based on our findings, at the conclusion of this research we will be able to provide concrete advice on how best to target specific vulnerable groups.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Significant changes in employment arrangements for all researchers has caused delays in data collection. Researchers have now established new work arrangements and are working towards completing the project on time. Data collection is now scheduled for carrying out between August and October 2019. Database creation is close to finalisation. Analysis of data is being carried out on an ongoing basis and will form the basis of two joint publications in the 2019 academic year.
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