2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
International migration of domestic and care workers - ethnicity, gender and care
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16402004
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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 | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Gender
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| Research Institution | Ryukoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
KUBA Yoshiko Ryukoku University, Faculty of Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (50014808)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TANAKA Hiroshi Ryukoku University, Faculty of Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (20086218)
NAKAMURA Hisashi Ryukoku University, Faculty of Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (50172424)
MATSUOKA Toshimichi Ryukoku University, Faculty of Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (60081121)
ARAI Misako Nagoya University, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Associate Professor, 大学院・国際言語文化研究科, 助教授 (20313968)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | domestic / care work / ethnicity / gender / international migration / welfare regime / multi-racialisation / commodification of labour / capitalism market economy |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project aims to analyze theoretically and empirically, and, most importantly, to illustrate the actual conditions of the intersection of ethnicity, gender and care work that is largely occupied by female labourers in the international migration of domestic/care workers. The basic issues of our project are to research the actual situation of : (1)poor economic conditions of sending countries and some structural problems (North-South problem and continuation of poverty) which causes to push out domestic/care workers to foreign countries, and (2)the system and response to foreign and immigrant care workers in receiving countries.
In this project, we researched Sri Lanka as a case of a sending country of domestic/care workers. And, we researched Japan, the USA, Sweden, Singapore, Kuwait and the UAE as cases of receiving countries. In those cases, Japan and Sweden are not currently receiving countries of domestic/care workers from overseas. However, there is another generation who engage in care work for the first generation of resident ("Zainichi") Koreans in Japan. Sweden has been accepting political refugees and foreigners who came to the country through "family unification" system. A number of these people are now taking on an important part of the public care service in Sweden. By including these cases, this research project examines international migration of domestic/care workers from a newer perspective than ever ; that is to say, it considers the migration in relation to the welfare regime that is currently the political economy regime in highly industrial countries and is consisted by government, market and family. This perspective indicates that the present welfare regime that is understood only in the traditional framework of "nation-state = national economy" is the system which already includes some elements crossing over the framework such as multi-racialisation, and political, economic and social elements.
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Research Products
(40 results)
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[Book] Emerging Political and Legal Challenges of Ethnic Schools in Japan (Japan's Diversity Dilemmas Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Education.)(in Lee, S., S.Murphy-Shigematsu, S, Befu, H (eds))2006
Author(s)
Tanaka, H (translated by Lee, S., Murphy-Shigematsu, S)
Total Pages
18
Publisher
iUniverse, Inc. New York, Lincoln Shanghais.
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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