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

这项研究的目的是分析20世纪80年代后期抵达日本的“新移民”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量的外来移民数据。定性数据来自对130名外国移民（一年级）的深度访谈，而定量数据通过基于互联网的调查（二年级和三年级）获得。到目前为止，我们已经发现，主要民族群体之间的社会流动模式差异很大，而且它们更多地取决于移民的原籍地区，而不是阶级出身。

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.