Social Inequality in an Age of Multiculturalism: Analyzing the Relationship between Social and Geographical Mobility

本研究的目的是分析20世纪80年代末后抵达日本的新来者或外国移民的社会流动性。为此，我们采用定性和定量相结合的方法收集了大规模的外国移民数据。定性数据来自对130名外国移民的深入访谈(第一年)，定量数据来自于基于互联网的调查(第二年和第三年)。到目前为止，我们发现主要民族群体的社会流动模式存在显著差异，而且更多地依赖于移民的原籍地区，而不是阶级来源。

The objective of the research was to analyze the social mobility of “newcomers" or foreign migrants who arrived in Japan after the late 1980s. To this aim, we collected large-scale data on foreign migrants based on both qualitative and quantitative methods. Qualitative data were derived from in-depth interviews with 130 foreign migrants (Year 1), while quantitative data were obtained through an Internet-based survey (Year 2 and 3). We have found so far that social mobility patterns vary significantly among the major nationality groups and that they depend more on migrants' region of origin rather than on class origins.