Abstract
Despite the rights of newly-arrive foreigners as “residents” are progressing, the ongoing recession that began in autumn of 2008 seriously affected them. The population of newly-arrive foreigners has decreased and a lot of unemployed foreigners have been confirmed. On such situation, some doubts are casted to the effectiveness of community-based coexistence theory. In this paper, I examine community-based coexistence theory and two comments for it: 1）analytical and normative problems focusing on community and 2）tendency of disregarding political factors and transformation of Japanese majority. I try to investigate these two comments by analyzing a case study in Nishio City and two findings are conducted. Firstly, community-based coexistence projects in Nishio City lay a large part in changing Japanese resident’s attitudes toward foreign residents and facilitating foreigners’ participation in community activities. Secondary, those projects have connected foreigners with political channel and have reformed the community organizations. Through this analysis, I suggest the alternative model of community-based coexistence theory, which emphasizes not only foreigners change but also transformation of Japanese majority.
https://ror.org/047n0b268 
