Diversity and restructure of Global networks and places concerning Indian community abroad

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520888
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Human geography
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: SAWA Munenori 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 教授 (40235453)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MINAMINO Takeshi 兵庫教育大学, 大学院学校教育研究科, 教授 (20273815)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 人文地理学 / 移民 / インド系移民 / エスニシティ / グローバル化 / グローバルシティ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In Edogawa-ku, Tokyo which is a new Indian community in Japan, we investigated the process of establishing ‘their own place’. Here, a new community is formed through the Internet which is a new communication tool. This differs from the Indian longtime permanent home in Japan (Kobe city) on condition of communication by facing to face contact. In this new community, they founded newly Indian schools (Edogawa-ku, Koto-ku, Tokyo Prefecture and Yokohama city), the Indian restaurants, the foods stores, and the temple (Edogawa-ku), and it was confirmed that the national identity is formed by that cause.
Based on Giddens's theory on modernity, we established a theory of Indian community abroad.

Free Research Field

人文地理学