The Analysis on the "Contact Zone" of Foreign Residents in Japan

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380634
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAMURO Makiko 慶應義塾大学, 総合政策学部, 准教授 (20598403)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 移民 / 第二世代

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research tries to analyze the immigrants’ “contact zone” which hasn’t long been investigated in the field of economics due to the lack of representative dataset.By using the web-monitoring survey, we find out that the conventional assimilationist perspective does not fully explain the immigrant economic success in Japan, indicating that their earnings decline over time, what previous literature refer to as “negative assimilation.” By using representative official statistics, we analyze the educational achievement of immigrant children in Japan. The empirical results suggest that once we controlled for the unobserved traits among children, what truly is important is the access to shadow education, or extra-curricular learnings, such as cramming school, private tutoring, and distance-learning.

Free Research Field

教育経済学