Immigration Policy in the Age of Globalization: An Attempt at Dynamic Analysis

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K13621
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 06020:International relations-related
• Research Institution: Saitama University
• Principal Investigator: Tomita Terumasa 埼玉大学, 人文社会科学研究科, 准教授 (30781679)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: グローバルゼーション / 移民 / 通商政策 / 海外直接投資

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In response to the question of under what circumstances "movement of people," which is one of the world's important themes, will increase, we tackled it in relation to trade policy. Initially, the analysis was planned to focus on the United States, but due to the difficulty of field surveys due to the coronavirus, the analysis was changed to focus on Japan. Even in labor-intensive industries in Japan, it became clear that while industries (regions) that have been expanding their production bases overseas from an early stage accept few foreign workers, industries (regions) that have production bases in Japan for some reason accept relatively large numbers of foreign workers. These results confirm that the acceptance of immigrants is strongly linked to trade policy.

Free Research Field

国際政治経済

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

日本においても近年、移民に関する議論は注目されるようになっているが、そこでの議論は大きく、移民がもたらす①経済的な効果、②社会面への影響―といった、経済学と社会学の観点から行われることがほとんどであり、実際にどのように政策決定に結び付くか、といった政治学的な観点からの研究蓄積は極めて少ないのが現状である。そうした状況下において本研究は、いかなる状況下において移民は増大するのか、といった問いに対して、政治学的な分析アプローチを実施した点に学術的意義があると考えられる。