2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An Analysis of Changing Aspects of the English Countryside with regard to an influx of East European Migrant workers
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22520836
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Cultural anthropology/Folklore
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| Research Institution | Kansai University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | イングランド / 移民 / 拡大EU / カントリーサイド / 住民運動 |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this research was to understand the relationship between East European migrant workers, who have moved into the English countryside since the 2004 EU eastern enlargement, and an indigenous English community through anthropological fieldwork conducted in Herefordshire in England. The research reveals a process that middle-class in-migrated English residents in the area took leadership to form a residents’ group to deal with the social tension caused by the mass-influx of the foreign population. They have been actively involved with the migrants, and they succeeded both in improving their working and living conditions and in bridging the local community and the migrants. The research also grasped the ongoing process of migrants’ mobile life strategies.
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