2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
"Displaced Spiritualities;" Religious conviction among refugee asylum seekers in Tokyo
| Project/Area Number |
22K01100
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| Research Institution | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
Slater David 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (70296888)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Keywords | archive / oral narrative / refugees / civic engagement / religious |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
1) We have fully revised the primary research product video on religious life of refugees. 2) We have added great to our core product, Refugee Voices Japan website, with more than 4 more profiles of more than 40,000 words and 30 video clips in both English and Japanese. 3) Joint publication with Fukuoka on the relationship between research and support. 4) A set of papers entitled with students of the project entitled "Giving students something worth researching: Involving undergraduate students in research at Sophia University" on the pedagogical foundations of project. 5) We have added almost 150 hours of new interview footage, with thousands of hours of transcription.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
We have reached and exceeded the goals that we have set for this project. In addition to finishing the extended video on religion for refugee asylum seekers (the primary focus of this last grant), we are happy to say that this has been shown at classrooms around the world. Our reputation has expanded to Europe where were were features on a special issue on the pedagogy of refugees and oral narrative archive. We have also been invited to submit a peer-reviewed journal on the relationship among scholarly work and civic support. These publication were not expected as our goal was primarily data collection and website dissemination so we were happy to be so fortunate.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The biggest challenges encountered was the high labor demands we brought on ourselves to produce materials that oriented not just to narrowly academic audiences but also to a wider, civic set of stakeholders. The style of writing, the use of different media (visual and video) and the dissemination are all different from what we are used to. But reaching these wider audience is one of the primary goals of our efforts, and we very much brought this challenge on to ourselves.
Our project is in excellent shape, as we have collected a lot of original data for future scholarly and civic dissemination, and have developed a reputation inside and beyond Japan that provides us with an much valued audience.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Due to the natural flow of data collection with human subjects, we were not always able to interview according to the schedule we originally planned. For that reason, we asked to have some of this money used one year later than originally planned.
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| Remarks |
Refugee Voices Japan is now the largest archive of refugee asylum seekers in Japan, now full bilingual with much expanding content each semester.
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