著者

水上 徹男 ミズカミ テツオ Tetsuo Mizukami

雑誌

応用社会学研究 = The journal of applied sociology

巻号頁・発行日

vol.64, 2022-03-24

著者

水上 徹男

出版者

Japan Association for Urban Sociology

雑誌

日本都市社会学会年報 (ISSN:13414585)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2020, no.38, pp.132-147, 2020-09-05 (Released:2021-09-16)

参考文献数

32

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This paper focuses upon the research of Siu, who conducted a survey of the Chinese community in the United States. By this research he was able to construct the sociological concept “sojourner”. Although this was in the 1950s, if we are to consider the contemporary significance of this concept, we shall have to “revisit” Siu's extensive fieldwork on the life of hand-operated laundry amongst Chinese living overseas. In this way we will also see the relevance to discussion of immigration patterns, ethnic business developments, and more broadly to wider ethnic community. The Chinese laundry business began in the 19th century, and the study on these industries did not make a major contribution to the historical studies of Chinatown nor other investigations of Chinese economic activities in the United States. However, the significance of such a connection was eventually unearthed by New York Chinatown History Project and Siu's dissertation was published in 1987, though he started the research in the 1930s. This research was an extensive study that inherited the tradition of the Chicago School of fieldwork, but has never been taken up as a Chicago School monograph. Perhaps the perception of sojourners who have no intention of permanent residence has not been the main focus of assimilation and integration theories to the host society. The characteristics of the sojourner that Siu emphasized was the persistent bond with the country of origin, an uncertainty about permanent residence, and no intention to assimilate to the host society. Contemporary research concerned with the impact of transnational migration in modern metropolises has begun to reckon with the kind of urban ethnicity that has characterized “sojourners”. And, in some ways, the concept itself is now more relevant and influential in this globalized era, than it was when Siu published his findings.

著者

水上 徹男 ミズカミ テツオ Tetsuo Mizukami

雑誌

応用社会学研究 = The journal of applied sociology

巻号頁・発行日

vol.64, 2022-03-24

著者

水上 徹男 ミズカミ テツオ Tetsuo Mizukami

雑誌

応用社会学研究 = The journal of applied sociology

巻号頁・発行日

vol.63, pp.ii, 2021-03-24

著者

水上 徹男

出版者

日本社会学会

雑誌

社会学評論 (ISSN:00215414)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.62, no.1, pp.127-128, 2011-06-30 (Released:2013-03-01)

著者

水上 徹男

出版者

日本社会学会

雑誌

社会学評論 (ISSN:00215414)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.54, no.2, pp.229-230, 2003