A STUDY ON ROLES OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE SOCIAL ADAPTATION OF FOREIGN WORKERS IN JAPAN

我们通过以下两种方法进行了研究；第一种方法是对外籍员工的访谈研究。我们经常去巴西的餐馆，了解外国工人对日本社会的适应情况。另一个是对日本团体的访谈研究，以支持在日本的外国工人的生活。三重县有很多这样的团体。我们采访了这些团体的一些关键人物。在考察外籍员工的适应水平时，我们认真考虑了时间视角。我们的研究结果表明，时间视角在所有四个行动者（即外国工人，他们的支持团体，居民和地方政府）中都非常重要。这也是我们的发现之一，支持团体的质量在决定外国工人的方向上是至关重要的，要么是隔离的方向，要么是融合的方向。我们也从这个角度研究了地方政府的角色。在将外国工人融入日本社会制度方面，有一些重要的尝试。

We have made our research by the following two methods ;The first method is interview research with foreign workers. We often go to Brazilian restaurants and get the precious information over the adaptation of foreign workers to Japanese society.The other is the interview research with Japanese groups to support the lives of foreign workers in Japan. There are a number of such groups in Mie prefecture. We interviewed some of the key persons of such groups.We have taken time perspective into our serious consideration in examining the adaptation level of foreign workers. Our research findings show that the time perspective is very important in all the four actors, i.e., foreign workers, their support groups, residents, and local governments.It is also one of our findings that the quality of support group is vital in deciding the direction of foreign workers, either to the direction of segregation, or to the direction of integration.We also studied on the roles of local governments in this perspectives. There are some important attempts to socialize foreign workers into the system of Japanese society.