Indian Diaspora in Japan-Globalization, Network and Community

本研究旨在探讨全球化背景下日本族群与印度社会的相互关系。它着眼于1990年后对印度侨民及其经济、文化的反思。正是东京环球城的印度社会(为信息技术工作者搬家的新人)和阪神地区的印度社会(特别是贸易港、神户的老者)将其作为目标。通过这部作品分析了民族和地方的生产、再生产的过程。关于族群、散居者和全球化的关系的理论，理清了争论的要点，提出了一个新的人文地理学视角，即一个族群生产他们的地方，那个地方生产他们作为具有种族认同的存在。本文借鉴了城市论证、结构理论和现象学的研究方法。1)利用印度社会组织等资料，从微观上分析了印度人的居住地、工作区分布、工作结构及其变化。2)通过对东京地区和阪神地区印第安人社会组织的听证调查，揭示了其形成和变化的机制。通过对印度人个人历史的听证调查，重新分析了网络的空间范围及其与身份再现的关系。

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.