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

这个项目的主要目标如下：(1)通过分析实际政策纲领的结构及其转变，仔细研究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展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澄清通过寻找国家认同而形成的国家形象；(3)与第二点有关，证明建国运动和后殖民运动在加拿大文学中的政治相关性。以及(4)讨论通过移民政策和移民支持措施使少数群体融入社会的可能性。通过为期三年的密集活动，包括在加拿大的多次研讨会和研究旅行，我们已经产生了足够的成果来实现上述四个目标。在第一年，最初的目标是在来自不同学科的项目成员之间达成相互理解和共享共同的研究方向。我们还邀请了日本国内外的知名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，除了在加拿大举办的研讨会和研究外，我们还在日本加拿大研究协会的年度大会上组织了一个小组讨论。在最后一年，我们于2006年7月举办了一次国际研讨会，邀请了著名学者，包括哈罗德·威伦斯基、基思·班廷、弗朗西斯·卡塞尔、肯特·罗奇、罗伊·温德和斯马洛·坎布雷利。我们的项目成员还在研讨会上发言。我们收集了提交给JACS年会和国际研讨会的论文，并添加了一些新的论文，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.