Multi-sited Ethnography of Egyptian Migrants across borders in Kuwait and Canada

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25870734
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology; Area studies
• Research Institution: Sophia University
• Principal Investigator: OKADO Masaki 上智大学, グローバル・スタディーズ研究科, 研究員 (00634338)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: エジプト / クウェート / カナダ / 移民研究 / 家族・親族論 / 社会的ネットワーク / 出稼ぎ労働者

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Ethnological fieldworks over three years is an attempt to plurally observe how Egyptian migrant social networks constructing globally are transformed from the family-based networks in their homeland by crossing the borders, circulating among Egypt, Kuwait, and Canada from multi-cited bilateral point of view.
As a result, although the networks developed between the migrants over a wide range of the area by rapid progress of a means of communication and easy transportation, it becomes clear that the direction, quality and strength of the networks are dependent on physical and relational place of the migrant as the starting point.

Free Research Field

人類学、地域研究