主催: 一般財団法人 北方文化振興協会
会議名: 第37回北方民族文化シンポジウム網走 北方諸民族文化とジェンダー 2
回次: 37
開催地: 北海道 網走市
開催日: 2023/10/21 - 2023/10/22
p. 045-050
In this report, based on interviews with women aged 20-70 living in Ainu society, I will examine their experiences of discrimination and clarify their discriminatory structures. I will focus not only on Ainu women of Ainu descent, but also on "Wajin" (majority ethnic group in Japan) women who entered Ainu society through marriage. From the narratives of older Ainu women, it is possible to grasp the intersectional discrimination structure. Older Ainu women who have experienced discrimination have strategically desired to marry Wajin in order to “dilute their blood ” and have concealed their ethnicity by not publicly declaring their Ainu identity. On the other hand, while Wajin women are labeled by the Japanese society as “women in Ainu society,” they are a minority in the family because they are not of Ainu blood. Therefore, I will also discuss the suffering of Wajin women as double outsiders.