A Study on Work and Family Views and the Intergenerational Care of the Youth Who Have Experienced Their Mothers' Migration

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K12618
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 80030:Gender studies-related
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUMAE Moyuru 早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 教授 (90549619)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 国際労働移動 / ジェンダー / ケア / 仕事観 / 家族観 / ブルガリア / EU / エッセンシャル・ワーカー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study, based on ethnographic research and interviews with female labor migrants from the villages in Bulgaria to other EU countries and their families, empirically clarified the practices of the children's generation who have experienced their mothers' migration after the 2000s with regard to work, care, and family. We then examined whether the views on work, family, and gender norms in the region have been transformed or not, and whether we can identify any characteristics of the younger generation's views when compared to those of their mothers. While a part of children chooses to work outside the country with their mothers’ assistance, there is a divergence between the strategies and practices of the youth and their mothers. One of the primary characteristics of the younger generation is based on family-based migration and the tendency of "re-familiarization."

Free Research Field

文化人類学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、従来は「子ども」として親世代の経験との関係で考察されることが多かった移住労働者の子ども世代に関し、成人後、労働やケアの担い手としていかなる選択をし、実践をするのかを実証的に明らかにしたうえで、世代間ケアの現状、現在の「ケアの連鎖」のありようを考察した点に意義がある。さらに、ブルガリア村落部出身者の多くが移動先で「エッセンシャル・ワーカー」として働いてきたことから、コロナ禍にあって人々はどのように働いてきたのか、コロナ禍を経て「エッセンシャル・ワーカー」をとりまく状況や人々の「仕事」とケアの諸相は変容するのか、を考えることにつながる基盤となる調査研究ができたと考えている。