The Technical Intern Training Programme and Japanese Society of the Future

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K12384
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 80010:Area studies-related
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Peddie Francis 名古屋大学, 国際開発研究科, 准教授 (00722539)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: Labor migration / Migration policy / Japan / Multiculturalism / Guest workers / Technical interns / Demographic change / Globalization

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I completed gathering qualitative and quantitative data from 101 repondents who are current or former technical interns in Japan. The results of these analyses are now being processed for 3-4 articles dealing with migrant satisfaction, connection to Japanese society through work and social activity (integration level), and an examination of the shift from a "side door" to "front door" labor migration policy in Japan by comparing satisfaction results of respondents who have switched to the Special Skilled Worker visa after completing the Technical Intern Training Program. A short documentary movie on the life experience of an Indonesian technical intern was also completed. Remaining budget was used to build a "migration and multiculturalism" library will help the researcher ground my results in the academic discourse and benefit the graduate students in my laboratory who are focused on migration and integration research.

Free Research Field

Labor migration studies

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

この研究は、日本の「典型的な」移民労働者の中規模のサンプルを用いた混合手法を用いることで実証的な貢献を行います。これは、移民が日本での仕事や生活をどのように経験し、それらを社会的および経済的なクラスの文脈に位置づけるかについて貴重な洞察を提供します。方法論的には、現象学的な混合手法アプローチは、以前の研究とは異なり、広範なトレンドやグループ（国籍）を見て移民を非個人化するか、危機状況にある移民労働者の小規模な質的分析に焦点を当てた非典型的な経験（エッジケース）を扱うものとは異なります。