Abstract
This presentation refers to analysis on drastic out-migration from an area where a coal mine had shut down. It throws a light upon attribution and movement patterns of migrants and their situation of life at destination to consider character of coal mining area and its peripheralization. Here an example of Takashima coal mining area (in Nagasaki prefecture, where is a mother land of Mitsubishi Financial Group) is treated. The mine was shut down in 1986, and just after it the Takashima town had experienced drastic short-run out-migration. Here about 3,637 out-migrants during one year, a data-base was constructed to the analysis and surveys by questionaries were done twice for the migrants. The migration flow was contained of many nuclear families. By occupation groupings among the migrants we can observe coal miners at a Mitsubishi company, ones at subcontract companies, white-collar workers at a Mitsubishi. Many children are also included among the migrants, which means most migrants moved with their family members. Among their destination Kyushu district is prominent, especially Nagasaki city pulled more than 30% of them. And on social classes at coal mining community, coal miners at subcontract companies were older than miners and white-collar workers at a Mitsubishi company. But in the case of the number of family member, the order became hind-foremost. At their destination many migrants as new-comers suffered from communication with local neighborhood people. Some migrants had experienced moving to another jobs repeatedly in a short term, made much of private chains.
