2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Indian Diaspora in Japan-Globalization, Network and Community
| Project/Area Number |
13680081
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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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 | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
SAWA Munenori Kobe University, Faculty of Human Development, Associate Professor, 発達科学部, 助教授 (40235453)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MINAMINO Takeshi Hyogo University of Teacher Education, Faculty of School Education, Associate Professor, 学校教育学部, 助教授 (20273815)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2003
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| Keywords | Globalization / Ethnic Community / Indians in Japan / Diaspora |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research is to examine the mutual relationship with the ethnic group and the area for Indian society in Japan under the globalization. It focuses on the reflectivity on Indian Diaspora and its economy, culture after 1990. It is the Indian society in "Global City, Tokyo" (the newcomer who moved for the information technology worker) and that of Hanshin area (old-comer especially in, trading port, Kobe) to make it the target. The process of the production, reproduction with the ethnic group and the place was analyzed through this work. Theory was built about the relations of the ethnic group, Diaspora and Globalization.
Points of an argument were put in order, and a new perspective was raised to the Human geography with an ethnic group producing their place and that place producing them as an existence which had ethnic identity. This work was referred to the approach of the city argument, structured theory and phenomenology. Relations with the community in the local level were examined in the place based on the statistics about foreigner's registration in Japan.
1) It is analyzed about the residence area, working area distribution of Indian in the micro-scale, the working structure and that change by using the materials such as Indian society organization. The formation of segregated area of them and a change were grasped, and it was examined from the point of the service supply (consumer goods, education, religion) and society organization.
2) The mechanism of that formation and that change are made clear by the hearing investigation to the society organization of Indian in Tokyo area and Hanshin area. The spatial extent of the network and relation with the reproduction of the identity was analyzed again by the hearing investigation of the individual history of Indian.
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Research Products
(4 results)
