The Spatial and Social Mobility, and the Role of School for the People Living in the "Periphery"; Comparative Study Focusing on the Experience of Amami Islands

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This research analyzes the possibility of spatial and social mobility, and the role of school for the people living in the "periphery" of modern Japan. Focusing on Amami Islands, along with Taiwan and Korea that were regarded as formal colony, and also with Ryukyu Islands and Hokkaido that were often seen as internal colony, we have made it clear that those peoples living in these areas sought for liberating themselves from peripheral status through acquiring high academic qualification in vain. We have also pointed out that capital difference constructed through legal differentiation took an important role for maintaining inequality after the abolishment of legal differentiation.