Comparative study of Japanese and Western ways of integration of Foreign Workers into local communities.

1995年，我们一方面收集了主要关于外籍工人及其家庭的社会保障和教育的资料，并由专门的举报人提供了这些资料。另一方面，我们在川崎和丰桥两个外国居民较多的当地社区进行了调查。在川崎，我们对外国人的住房、工作和教育进行了听证会和资料收集，确认他们需要这些信息以及作为公民的平等条约。在居住着许多巴西人和日裔秘鲁人的丰桥，我们听取了市政当局的意见，并采访了外国居民，了解他们在生活、工作和社会保障方面不断变化的需求。我们从那里得到的发现是：1)一些外国工人在寻找更好的工作的同时，开始在社区定居；2)与此相关的是，他们希望住在公共住房中；3)但是他们没有得到充分的社会保险制度，特别是因为日本养老金制度的缺陷。在研究这些材料的过程中，我们详细阐述了日本和西方在地方社区层面整合外国工人的方式的比较分析方案。这项比较分析的结果载于我们的报告，T.MIYAJIMA（主编），1995年当地社区的外国工人。

In 1995 we collected, on the one hand, the materials mainly on social security and education of foreign workers and their families, and were given the informations about those by specialized informants.On the other hand, we made the surveys in two local communities with many foreign residnts : Kawasaki and Toyohashi. in Kawasaki, we made the hearing and the material gathering on housing, work and education of foreigners and confirmed that they need the informations about those and equal treaties as citizen. In Toyohashi where live many Brazllians and Peruvians of Japanese descent, we made the hearing from municipal authorities and interviwed foreign residents about their changing needs on living, job and socal security. The findings that we got therefrom were 1)some of these foreign workers, while seeking better jobs, began to settle down in the community 2)in relation to this, they are hoping to live in a public housing 3)however they are not sufficiently covered by social insurance system especially because of the defects in Japanese pention system.In examinating these materials, we elaborated the scheme for comparative analysis of Japanese and Western ways of integrating foreign workers in local community level. The results of this comparative analysis are presented in our report, T.MIYAJIMA(ed.), Foreign Workers in Local Community, 1995.