An international comparative analysis about the production and use of the media by migrants - The case of Brazilians living abroad and Nikkeijin living in Brazil

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24402033
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Musashi University
• Principal Investigator: Ishi Angelo 武蔵大学, 社会学部, 教授 (20386353)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SHIRAMIZU Shigehiko 駒澤大学, グローバル・メディア・スタデーズ学部, 教授 (80095942)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 移民研究 / 在外ブラジル人 / 在日ブラジル人 / 日系ブラジル人 / メディア / ディアスポラ / エスニック・メディア / 新聞

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The main achievement of this research project is that we succeeded in collecting comprehensive data about the media produced by Brazilian migrants who live in Japan, Europe, USA and Australia, who constitute what we call a “new diaspora”. We also interviewed the owners of new media enterprises by Japanese-Brazilians, enabling us to capture the restructuring of these migrants’ media market. Meanwhile, we did a group interview with some of the most renowned leaders of the Brazilian migrants’ community in Japan, and heard from them the dilemmas regarding the use of media, as well as their suggestions to improve the existing migrants’ media.
Last but not least, we did participant observation at the very first worldwide meeting of Brazilian diasporic writers, and also hosted the first video festival held in Japan with films produced by Brazilian migrants living allover the world.

Free Research Field

移民研究、国際社会学、メディア社会学