Reconsideration on the Historical and Contemporary Land-route Connection between South Asia and South East Asia

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23402009
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Hiroshima Shudo University
• Principal Investigator: TAKADA Mineo 広島修道大学, 人文学部, 教授 (80258277)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): FUJITA Kouichi 京都大学, 東南アジア研究センター, 教授 (80272441)
• Research Collaborator: OSADA Noriyuki ; Srawt Aree , DR. ; TAKEGUCHI Miku ; WADA Michihiro ; YAMAMOTO Mayumi ; MORIMOTO Izumi ; KOJIMA Takahiro
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: タイ / 南アジア / ビルマ（ミャンマー） / 陸路でのつながり / 移民労働者 / 移民政策 / バングラデシュ / ネパール

Outline of Final Research Achievements

For the purpose of re-finding the relationship between South Asia and Southeast Asia, we have conducted a research project which studies three South Asian communities in Thailand; i.e. 1) Bangladeshi Muslim descendant communities in northern region, 2) ‘Nepali’ community, and 3) Burmese Muslims of South Asian origin. On group 1), their migration routes and their ancestors’ villages were revealed. On group 2), it is revealed that a ‘Nepali’ category includes three different sub-groups and that their times of migration and the cause and process are different. As of the political problem in Myanmar, we could not deepen a research on group 3).
At the same time, Fujita, co-leader of the project, headed another research group and investigates on Burmese migrant workers in Thailand. They revealed that there are successive flows of migrants to the heartland of Thailand, and this fact suggests the bias of the previous studies which paid too much attention to the border area.

Free Research Field

地域研究、社会学