The Spatial and Social Mobility, and the Role of School for the People Living in the "Periphery"; Comparative Study Focusing on the Experience of Amami Islands

这项研究分析了空间和社会流动的可能性，以及学校对生活在现代日本“边缘”的人的作用。我们着眼于阿美岛，以及被视为正式殖民地的台湾和韩国，以及经常被视为内部殖民地的琉球群岛和北海道，明确表示生活在这些地区的人民试图通过徒劳地获得高学历来从边缘地位中解放出来。我们还指出，通过法律分化构建的资本差异在废除法律分化后对维持不平等起到了重要作用。

This research analyzes the possibility of spatial and social mobility, and the role of school for the people living in the "periphery" of modern Japan. Focusing on Amami Islands, along with Taiwan and Korea that were regarded as formal colony, and also with Ryukyu Islands and Hokkaido that were often seen as internal colony, we have made it clear that those peoples living in these areas sought for liberating themselves from peripheral status through acquiring high academic qualification in vain. We have also pointed out that capital difference constructed through legal differentiation took an important role for maintaining inequality after the abolishment of legal differentiation.