Interdisciplinary research on the development of the principles and policies for social integration : Canadian experiences

该项目的主要目标如下：（1）通过分析实际政策方案的结构及其转变，审查加拿大福利国家的发展如何有助于社会融合和国家建设，以及它在多大程度上显示了超越民族国家维度的社会团结和包容的可能性，（2）从历史和国际关系的角度阐明通过寻求民族认同而演变的国家形象，（3）与第二点相关证明加拿大文学中国家建设运动和后殖民运动的政治相关性，（4）讨论通过移民政策和移民支持措施实现少数民族社会融合的可能性。通过三年的密集活动，包括在加拿大的许多研讨会和研究旅行，我们已经产生了足够的满足上述四个目标。第一年的主要目标是在不同学科的项目成员之间达成相互理解和分享共同的研究方向。我们还邀请了日本国内外的杰出学者来拓宽我们的视野。一些成员在加拿大进行了研究。第二年，除了在加拿大进行的研讨会和研究外，我们还在日本加拿大研究协会的年会上组织了一个小组。在最后一年，我们在2006年7月举办了一次国际研讨会，邀请了杰出的学者，包括Harold Wilensky，基思班廷，弗朗西斯城堡，肯特罗奇，罗伊温和，和Smaro Kamboureli。我们的项目成员也在研讨会上发表了演讲。我们收集了JACS年会和国际研讨会上提交的论文，并增加了一些新的论文，完成了项目的最终报告，目前正在修改和出版过程中。

The major goals of this project are as follows : (1) scrutinizing how the development of the Canadian welfare sate contributes to social integration and nation-building and to what extent it shows possibilities of social solidarity and inclusion beyond the dimension of the nation state by analyzing structures of actual policy programs and their transformation, (2) clarifying the image of the state that has evolved through the search for national identity from the perspectives of history and international relations, (3) related to the second point, proving the political relevance of nation-building movements and post-colonial movements in the Canadian literature, and (4) discussing the possibility of social inclusion of minorities through immigration policy and immigrants-supporting measures.By the three-year intensive activities, including numerous workshops and research trips in Canada, we have produced enough to satisfy the above four goals. In the first year, the primal goal was to attain mutual understandings and sharing of common research orientation among project members from various disciplines. We also invited distinguished scholars from within and outside of Japan to broaden our perspectives. A few members conducted research in Canada. In the Second year, in addition to workshops and researches conducted in Canada, we organized a panel in the annual convention of the Japanese Association of Canadian Studies. In the final year, we held an international symposium in July 2006 by inviting distinguished scholars, including Harold Wilensky, Keith Banting, Francis Castle, Kent Roach, Roy Mild, and Smaro Kamboureli. Our project members also gave speeches in the symposium.By collecting papers submitted to the annual convention of the JACS as well as to the international symposium and adding some new essays, we completed a final report on the project, which are now revised and in the process of publication.