2018 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
移民・移動・結婚可能性：日本における中国人学生と結婚障壁の形成
| Project/Area Number |
18F18744
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
佐藤 嘉倫 東北大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (90196288)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
CHENG YUCHING 東北大学, 文学研究科, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-10-12 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | intersectionality / marriageability / marital boundary / immigration / gender inequality |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Yuching Cheng has made three achievements in terms research productivity and visibility.
In first four months, she was an active member of a research team on Japanese language school. She not only contributed to original ideas but also identified the 1990s as the turning point for the development of Japanese language school. Its preliminary findings will be presented in a round table section of 2019 American Sociological Association conference. During this period she had also done two presentations in an international conference.
She has had a great progress in her research project on the making of marital boundaries of Chinese immigrants in Japan, a study that is directly derived from her dissertation research. She completed two fieldwork trips in Ikebukuro and Yokohama between January 2019 and March 2019. During the trips, she had collected a number of visual materials, documented the landscapes of immigrant communities, identified several ethnic organizations and business associations, and had multiple conversations with visitors and immigrants.
In terms of publications and visibility, currently, she has one manuscript under review in an English-speaking peer-reviewed journal. The manuscript, derived from her dissertation research, received mostly positive feedback from its editors and reviewers. In addition, she was selected as a discussant for an international workshop held in Berlin. Finally, she was invited by a world-known professor to be a presider for an author-meets-critics panel to be held in an international conference in November, 2019.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
As of March 2019, Yuching Cheng has three research tasks at hand. First, she is revising a manuscript and plan to resubmit it by July. Second, she is improving the research design of her paper on Chinese immigrants in Japan based on her ethnographical observations from prior fieldwork trips. To focus on this qualitative research, she has moved from Sendai to Tokyo. Lastly, she is drafting a paper on the intersectionality model of immigrant marriage, a theoretical framework pillared her research projects on the comparison of Chinese immigrants in the United States and in Japan.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
1. April 2019-July 2019: Yuching Cheng will complete the second round of data collection from Chinese immigrant communities in Tokyo.
2. August 2019-November 2019: She will complete data analysis.
3. November 2019: She will present preliminary findings at an international conference.
4. January 2020-March 2020: She will draft a manuscript and submit it to a peer reviewed journal.
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