The Influx of Immigrants into Japan and Their Social Integration Process: A comparative analysis of Life-histories of Korean Families and Japanese-Brazilian Families

本研究旨在通过对韩国家庭和日裔巴西家庭的生活史的比较分析，找出移民涌入日本及其社会融合过程的一些模式。研究发现：(1)第一代移民和第一代移民大多融入了外围劳动力市场；(2)国际移民制度的类型造成了社会资本的内容和数量上的差异。这些差异影响了各个移民群体的身份获得过程和族际关系；(3)朝鲜族家庭生活结构的多样化带来了族群的变化，但我们仍然可以发现，他们仍然保持着从家庭传承下来的朝鲜族族群。

This study aims at finding some patterns of the influx of immigrants into Japan and their social integration process through a comparative analysis of life-histories of Korean families and Japanese-Brazilian families. We get some findings as follows:(1) the first generation of both immigrants were mostly incorporated into the peripheral labor market(2) the type of international migration system caused some differences concerning the content and amount of social capital. Those differences affected the status attainment process and inter-ethnic relations among each immigrant group, and(3) the diversification of the Korean families' life-structure has brought about the change in their ethnicitywhile we can still find that they keep Korean ethnicity which has been inherited from their families.