A STUDY ON ROLES OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE SOCIAL ADAPTATION OF FOREIGN WORKERS IN JAPAN

我们通过以下两种方法进行了研究：第一种方法是对外籍工人的访谈研究。我们经常去巴西餐馆，获取关于外国工人适应日本社会的宝贵信息。另一个是与日本团体的访谈研究，以支持在日本的外国工人的生活。在米耶县有许多这样的团体。我们约谈了这类人士中的一些主要人士，并在研究外地劳工的适应程度时，认真考虑了时间因素。我们的研究结果表明，时间视角在外籍工人、他们的支持团体、居民和地方政府这四个行为者中都非常重要，这也是我们的发现之一，支持团体的质量对于决定外籍工人的方向是至关重要的，无论是分离的方向还是融合的方向。在让外国工人融入日本社会体系方面，有一些重要的尝试。

We have made our research by the following two methods ;The first method is interview research with foreign workers. We often go to Brazilian restaurants and get the precious information over the adaptation of foreign workers to Japanese society.The other is the interview research with Japanese groups to support the lives of foreign workers in Japan. There are a number of such groups in Mie prefecture. We interviewed some of the key persons of such groups.We have taken time perspective into our serious consideration in examining the adaptation level of foreign workers. Our research findings show that the time perspective is very important in all the four actors, i.e., foreign workers, their support groups, residents, and local governments.It is also one of our findings that the quality of support group is vital in deciding the direction of foreign workers, either to the direction of segregation, or to the direction of integration.We also studied on the roles of local governments in this perspectives. There are some important attempts to socialize foreign workers into the system of Japanese society.