多文化混交地域のマイノリティ

ー接触領域の食からみるエスニシティー

抄録

　In the age of global migration, many multiethnic areas, where migrants from different cultures live together, have been produced all over the world. Such areas provide contact among various ethnic minorities, which are enabled by micro, local, but rich, relationships. However, previous ethnic and migration studies in Japan have generally focused on only binary ethnic relations, most notably Korean minority studies. This traditional view may have overlooked the multiethnic and multicultural realities of ethnic minorities in Japan.　This paper views such social spaces where multiple cultures mix as the “contact zone”(Pratt, 1992)＊. I especially focus on the ethnicities and food in daily life, and describe cultural contacts and human relationships in them. This paper is mainly based on fieldwork conducted between 2008 and 2011 in Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama City, where Okinawan, Korean and Latin Americans coexist due to historical circumstances. In this multiethnic area, I conducted interviews in ethnic restaurants and participant observations of the ethnic groups.　This paper presents the complex and tangled relationship among plural ethnic minorities discovered as a result of this ethnographic research, which is totally different from the binary relationship between the majority and the minority. Ethnic minorities of this area clash on cultural hegemony and build community spirit under the pressure of the Japanese social gaze. I confirmed that the multiethnic area in Tsurumi Wards a relatively independent zone, where minorities do not assimilate entirely into Japanese society, but make full use of their ethnic representations to construct social relationships. This paper describes the dynamism which arises from contacts between various immigrants and cultures, and by analyzing these contacts, I discover the three dimensions of ethnic boundary change: strengthening, defecting, and re-fixing.＊ Pratt, Mary Louise, 1992, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, Routledge.