| Project/Area Number |
14380024
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Human geography
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Gakugei University |
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Principal Investigator |
YAGASAKI Noritaka Tokyo Gakugei University, Faculty of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (30166475)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KAGAMI Masahiro Tokyo Gakugei University, Faculty of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (60185709)
TSUBAKI Machiko Tokyo Gakugei University, Faculty of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (80236934)
SAITO Isao University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of life and Environmental Sciences, Professor, 大学院・生命環境科学研究科, 教授 (90006586)
YAMASHITA Kiyomi University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of life and Environmental Sciences, Professor, 大学院・生命環境科学研究科, 教授 (00166662)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥10,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥3,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥4,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000)
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| Keywords | immigrant / immigrant society / adaptive strategy / preadaptation / regional ecology / multiracial society / United States of America / Los Angeles |
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| Research Abstract |
At the age of globalization when the movement of people crossing national boundaries is accelerated, peaceful coexistence of human beings is a challenging issue. Immigrants and their communities bring about a variety of geographic phenomena in the context of host society. This study attempted to investigate adaptive strategies that immigrants adopted in order to survive in the host society, to evaluate the degree of preadaptation of immigrant groups, and to analyze various pressures that host society exerted on immigrants. The United States of America, a typical multiracial and multicultural society, was chosen for case studies while attempting to understand American cases with in comparative perspective. Geographic field studies were conducted mainly in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in the state of California on the flowing themes : regional structure of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, immigrants' occupational structure and economic organizations, immigrants' social behavior and social organizations, immigrants' cultural organizations and cultural succession, immigrants' land use and cultural landscape, and immigrants' housing and ethnic landscape. Urban structure of the metropolitan area has been modified due to the changes took place in the industrial composition, while massive new immigrants from Asia and Latin America following the enactment of the Immigration Act of 1965 have transformed the residential structure and urban landscape and increased ethnic diversity. Ethnic features of the Los Angeles metropolitan area were carefully documented, and case studies were conducted on such immigrant groups as Japanese, Chinese, German, Dutch, Portuguese, and Hispanics. These studies suggest that accumulation of geographic case studies is important for understanding multiracial-multicultural society and that conceptual framework needs to be constructed in order to carry out global comparative studies.
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