International and Internal Migration of Labor: A Study on the Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines as Agricultural Migrant Workers.

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K01221
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 04030:Cultural anthropology and folklore-related
• Research Institution: Atomi University
• Principal Investigator: MORIYA Yumiko 跡見学園女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (40221709)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 国際移動 / フィリピン / 先住民 / 技能実習生

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Indigenous people of the Philippines have been discriminated against and oppressed by the lowlanders. But they were able to improve their economic situation in large-scale farm managements with using the salary earned as Technical Intern Trainees in the Agriculture Sector in Japan. And they employ lowlanders as workers there. Then they become masters of lowlanders, and their social relations were reversed in their communities.Most of the indigenous people have been keeping out of trouble in Japan under the Foreign Technical Intern Training system. Because the people of their host area have built a good relationship with the people of the sending community over many years. This suggests that　it is beneficial to build such a relationship in order to accept foreign technical intern for both sides.

Free Research Field

文化人類学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

これまであまり言及されていなかった、発展途上国での国内移動がグローバル化の進展によって地域社会に及ぼす影響、及び「家族のために犠牲になって働く無力で受け身の存在」としてステレオタイプ的に表象されることの多い移民労働者の実態について、それが必ずしもそうとは限らないということをフィリピンの先住民の事例から明らかにした。
また本研究ではこうした国際移動労働の多様性が示されるとともに、受入側の問題として、受入国と事業参加者、送出国との間には「一過性ではなく地域社会を担う可能性ある人材として外国人材を受け入れる3者のトリプルウィンな農村事業の推進」が必要であることがフィリピンの先住民の事例から示された。