Comparative studies on immigrants' communities in the Pacific Rim Area: Focusing on comtemporay changes

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23251023
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: Rikkyo University
• Principal Investigator: KURITA KAZUAKI 立教大学, 文学部, 教授 (10257157)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MISHIMA Teiko 国立民族学博物館, 民族社会研究部, 准教授 (20280604) ; DU Guoqing 立教大学, 観光学部, 教授 (40350300) ; ICHIKAWA Makoto 立教大学, 文学部, 教授 (60308088) ; MIZUKAMI Tetsuo 立教大学, 社会学部, 教授 (70239226) ; FARRER Gracia 早稲田大学, アジア太平洋研究科, 教授 (70436062) ; OOHASHI Kenichi 立教大学, 観光学部, 教授 (70269281)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): ICHIKAWA Tetsu 立教大学, 観光学部, 助教 (40435540)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 移民 / 環太平洋地域 / コミュニティ / 華人 / 頻繁な移動者 / 近年の変化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We can find many immigrants' communities in Pacific Rim area. Here, not only major migrants such as ethnic Chinese and oversea Indians, but Japanese, southeastern Asian origin peoples in US, and Africans in Asia. Even in the case of Chinese and Indians, their communities have a vast variety.
This project presented varieties of immigrats' community in this area, and rapid changes after 2001. These rapid changes and volume of immigrants are supported by improvement of transporation, world wide communication, and money transfer. We also tried to describe immigrants' community not from viewpoint of residents but from frequent travellers.

Free Research Field

文化人類学