2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Solidarity hubs as social infrastructure: A comparative approach to voluntary services for transient foreign workers in East Asian City-regions
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22K01047
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
コルナトウスキ ヒェラルド 九州大学, 比較社会文化研究院, 准教授 (00614835)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Keywords | Solidarity hubs / Inner city / Social inequality / Third sector geographies / Fukuoka / Yokohama / Singapore |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
I have published a paper on the Fukuoka and Yokohama surveys, including a theoretical framework on 'solidarity hubs' in relation to recent theorizations of segmentation and enclavization patterns of urban foreign populations. Regarding the Singapore survey, I have been able to reach out to non-traditional volunteer organizations that emerged as solidarity networks during the pandemic. For Yokohama, I have conducted a questionnaire study on the solidarity structures of the local Thai community.
On the topic of informality in both solidarity structures and housing, I have presented three papers in three different international conferences. This has allowed me examine the specific role of informality in solidarity structures for foreign populations and other, loosely-related minority groups.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
I have been able to initiate the Singapore survey, but it requires a follow-up survey. In addition, I have maintained close contact with the various stakeholders that participated in the workshop that I organized previous fiscal year, yet the number of in-depth interviews conducted is slightly less than originally planned.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
I will finalize the planned surveys in Fukuoka, Yokohama, and Singapore. Following up on a paper that will be published next year, I plan to extrapolate from the insights gathered from the solidarity hub concept to the larger scale of peculiar urbanization patterns and pathways based on 'infrastructures of acceptance' during times of populations influxes and growth. This will also provide an apt opportunity to focus more on the comparative framework of this research. Finally, I plan to organize a follow-up workshop on social infrastructures and the role of solidarity hubs with the stakeholders in my research field. The end result of this research project will be presented at the EARCAG conference which I am also organizing this fiscal year.
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