Creating parallel society?: Capturing ethnoscape through visual ethnography of South Asians in Japan

2020年，我在名古屋德仁寺进行了长期的视觉人种学田野调查，以加深对日本名古屋支持移民的公民社会的了解。通过聚焦寺庙牧师高冈，我对名古屋的公民社会帮助移民的情况有了更广泛的了解。我还深入研究了因日冕疫情而失去工作的越南移民，他们住在名古屋的德仁寺，等待一天返回自己的祖国。我利用视觉人种学和参与者观察法收集了关于越南移民日常生活的经验数据。这些越南移民中的许多人能够返回自己的祖国。我还跟踪了他们的离开动向。在田野调查和收集可视人种学数据后，我对他们进行了记录、审查和分析，以准备我的研究成果发表在民族志电影中。

In 2020, I conducted long-term visual ethnographic fieldwork in Tokurinji Temple, Nagoya, to gain a deeper understanding of the civil society that is supporting immigrants in Nagoya, Japan. By focusing on the temple priest Takaoka, I have achieved a broader picture of the civil society helping immigrants in Nagoya. I have also done in-depth research on Vietnamese immigrants who have lost their jobs due to the corona pandemic and staying at Tokurinji Temple, Nagoya, and waiting a day returning to their home country. I utilized visual ethnographic and participant-observation methods to collect empirical data focusing on Vietnamese immigrants' everyday lives. Many of these Vietnamese immigrants were able to return to their home country. I also followed their departure movements.After fieldwork and collecting visual ethnographic data, I have logged, reviewed, and analysed them to prepare my research results for publication in an ethnographic film.