Social and Cultural Integration of Foreign Residents

本研究以在日外国人为研究对象，对川崎市外国人代表大会候选人的政治态度、丰桥市外国人子女的中学教育、外国人的政治参与（川崎、大坂、京都等）进行了社会学研究。.从我们的研究结果中，我们可以指出以下发现。首先，不仅是永久性外国居民，而且是新移民的政治参与动机。第二，然而，后者有时生活没有任何社会联系的居民。第三，外国儿童的教育很难使他们克服语言差异，为了改善这种情况，社区一级的支持性教育网络是必不可少的。

We realized three sociological researches on the themes about the foreign residents in Japan : political attitudes of the candidates of Representative Assembly for Foreign Residents of Kawasaki, education in secondary school for foreign children's in Toyohashi City and political participation of foreign residents in comparative perspective ( Kawasaki, OSAKA, KYOTO, etc.) . We can point out the following findings from our research results. Firstly, not only the permanent foreign residents but also the recent immigrants are motivated to the political paricipation. Secondly, however the latters sometimes live without any social ties with habitants. Thirdly, the education of foreign children has difficulties in making them overcome the differences of language and, to improve this situation, the supportive networks of education of community level are indispensable.