2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Inflow and Settlement of Population in Depopulated Rural Mountainous Area: Focus on GENKAI-SYURAKU (Marginal Hamlets) Theory
| Project/Area Number |
23530676
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Prefectural University of Hiroshima |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
TSUKAMOTO Naomi 三次市役所
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 過疎 / 農山村 / 人口Uターン / 高齢者 / 生きがい / 生活構造 / 地域定住 / 地域社会 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The aim of my research is to grasp the actual conditions of Genkai Syuraku (marginal hamlets) in Japan. Using data from the questionnaire survey and interviews with the elderly people, we examine marginal hamlets theory in a paradigmatic rural mountainous area of population decline-the Chugoku Mountains village, Hiroshima prefecture.
We find that contrary to the expectation of community disorganization implied by marginal hamlets theory, rural community life structure is still alive. We also find a pervasive pattern of inflow of population to rural mountainous area. Our findings have implications for accumulating analyses of the present state of depopulated rural areas in Japan because, to some extent, an influx of rural population to the cities of Japan may be followed by compensation of migratory current by countercurrent.
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| Free Research Field |
地域社会学
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