Extensive networks of Lebanese and Syrian migrants: Multifaceted self and spatial imagination

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25257003
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: KUROKI HIDEMITSU 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 教授 (20195580)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 鈴木 茂 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 教授 (10162950) ; 眞島 一郎 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 教授 (10251563) ; 飯塚 正人 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 教授 (90242073)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): IIJIMA Midori 立教大学, 異文化コミュニケーション学部, 准教授 (20252124) ; UDO Satoshi 鹿児島大学, 法文学部, 准教授 (70713981)
• Research Collaborator: IKEDA Akimitsu ; OOBA Kodama ; YAMAMOTO Kaoru
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 移民 / シリア / レバノン / 中東 / ラテンアメリカ / ディアスポラ / イスラーム / 東方キリスト教

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Lebanese and Syrian migrants’ conspicuousness in their global activities is supported by their high adaptabilities to the different cultures and by their strong extending networks. They exchange information of different values between their families and friends, who are also in the move, in order to open new businesses and sometimes exert politics of their home and residing countries. Multiplicity of their identity and complexity of their relationship-building tools are always maintained and developed. The historical origin of this behavior can be traced back to non-Muslim merchants and interpreters in Ottoman Lebanon and Syria.

Free Research Field

中東地域研究