Comparative Research on the Political Participation of Asian immigrants in the United States

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380726
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Tenri University
• Principal Investigator: NOH JAEWON 天理大学, 国際学部, 教授 (30303572)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: コリアンタウン / アジア系移民者 / 地域構造 / 移民社会 / コミュニティ委員会 / 移住ネットワーク / アジア系政治家 / チャイナタウン

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this Research, two district of Asian immigrants in New York City , picked up a community board, a regional community organizations, is an empirical study of the relationship between immigrants and municipal participation. As a result, two findings below were obtained. 1) New immigrants with many of the local community board regional issues is a cultural difference between immigrants, community participation of Asian immigrants have passive attitude. 2) stable regional of community board Asian immigrants are getting the municipal government information through the community board.

Free Research Field

社会学