著者

中村 文哉

出版者

山口県立大学

雑誌

山口県立大学社会福祉学部紀要 (ISSN:1341044X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.9, pp.41-57, 2003-03-20

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The theme of this paper is the forms of "homeland" may take. The author asserts that two forms of "homeland" exist:One is the homeland as substance, that is as a physical space, and the second is the homeland as meaning, something that exists in our field of consciousnesses or memories. This phenomenon can be clearly seen in the case of immigrants who have lost their physical homeland but still retain their homeland in their mind and heart. The experience of losing one's substantive homeland results in gaining a meaningful homeland in abstract form. This is the result of the vivid symbolism of human experiences. In Chapter 1, the author discusses "homeland" as birthplace and the very important meaning of nativity for us. A discussion on the contingency of one's birth which draws from Tonnie's category "Gemeinshaft", Cooley's "primary group" and Schutz's" world of everyday life" follows. The author contends that social personalities are formed by the social-cultural orders and habits experienced in one's homeland. In Chapter 2, the author asserts that so long as any experience with homeland is based on Schutz's "umweltichen Erliberness" (the situation founded on face to face relationships), immigrants will vividly live in the homeland as a meaning in place of their substantive homeland. In Chapters 3 to 5, the author describes the homeland of the peple who live in Kamagasaki, a town of day laborers in Osaka. The town is populated by immigrants from Okinawa and people who have experienced Hansen Disease in Okinawa.