2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Global Migration and Reconfiguration of Social Relations among Middle Eastern Muslims in the Age of the Post-Arab Spring

Research Project

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Project/Area Number	19KK0023
Research Category	Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B))
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Review Section	Medium-sized Section 4:Geography, cultural anthropology, folklore, and related fields
Research Institution	Kobe University
Principal Investigator	Saito Tsuyoshi 神戸大学, 国際文化学研究科, 教授 (90508912)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	鳥山純子立命館大学, 国際関係学部, 准教授 (10773864) 大坪玲子東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 研究員 (20509286)
Project Period (FY)	2019-10-07 – 2024-03-31
Keywords	ポスト・アラブの春 / 中東 / 移動 / 知 / ネットワーク / 移民・難民 / 遺産
Outline of Final Research Achievements	Since the Arab Spring erupted at the end of 2010, drastic social and political changes have continued in Middle Eastern countries. In this context, scholarly interest in the influx of migrants and refugees from the Middle East into Europe has increased. However, many discussions have fallen short of developing an adequate framework for understanding the ongoing transformation in the Middle East in relation to the development of the recent migration movement due to the conventional research's problematic colonialist perspective inherited from the long tradition of Middle Eastern studies developed in Europe and the US. This research project aims to fill this gap by clarifying how migrants and refugees from the Middle East develop new knowledge and understandings of religion, ethnicity, and global power relations with a special focus on the formation of relationships and personal exchanges that accompany their migration.
Free Research Field	文化人類学
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	民主化を旗印に様々な要求を国家に突きつけた「アラブの春」は、その後の中東諸国の政治体制のあり方や域内秩序を根底から揺るがした。モロッコやチュニジアでは市民社会の発展が見られた一方、リビアやシリア、イエメンでは内戦が勃発し、エジプトでは独裁体制が強化された。その結果、欧州をはじめとした近隣地域だけでなく、東アジアにまでも移民、難民が、大量に流出し、世界的なネットワーク再編を余儀なくさせた。本研究の学術的・社会的意義は、そのような21世紀の世界のあり方を現在進行形で根源的に変貌させる中東世界の今日的変容を、人の移動のあり方の変容と地域、そして知の再編から捉えようとする点にある。