Refugee/Asylum seekes and Community Care : Discussion of current case studies
アイテムタイプ
紀要論文 / Departmental Bulletin Paper
言語
日本語
キーワード
難民/難民申請者, ソーシャル・キャピタル (社会関係資本), ソーシャル・インテグレーション (社会統合), 地域福祉, 社会的孤立, 中間的就労, Refugee, Asylum seekers, Social capital, Social integration, Community Care, Social Isolation, Internship for finding employment
The Japanese government introduced its third-country resettlement pilot project in 2010 in trial basis. New types of refugees and asylum seekers except Indo-Chinese refugees, however, have lived in Japan for long time and there has been a limitation of social support. How they have survived in local Japanese community without sufficient supports by the government?
This short paper focused on the relationship between refugee/asylum seekers and local Japanese community and aimed to draw a sketch of life situation through fragmental information of research reports, periodical documents, the press regarding refugees/asylum seekers and author's experiences in order to gain a footing a field research of them in future. Also, the paper made some suggestion for support intended to promote social integration, based on the importance of social capital. Their social isolation in local community and social exclusion from social resources were brought out and it was founded that some of them were supported by local Japanese residents and had feelings of contribution to Japanese society as one of members composed in this society through the experiences of the Great East Japan Earthquake. It could be necessary to incorporate refugees/asylum seekers' support into the mainstream welfare support system including the internship program for finding employment under the strategies of life support which the government just started currently, and the prevention of social isolation under the community care system. The intervention in refugee/asylum seekers' support by the Councils of Social Welfare and Welfare volunteers , who are main leaders to promote community care, would be expected strongly.