Forming the Norm of “Good Citizens”

: From the Standpoint of People Living in Homeless Poverty in the 1920s-1930s in Japan.

Abstract

This article aims to approach the common questions of the plenary session by focusing on the independent involvement of people who were （or were not） targeted by social policy. In particular, I would like to pay attention to the people living in homeless poverty in 1920s-1930s Japan. These people did not have a stable position as citizens and workers, and their relationship with society was incomplete and unstable. In that sense, it is considered that they were people who lived on the boundary between the inside and the outside of citizenship.

The first task of this article is to consider how investigators and supporters perceived people living on the boundaries of citizenship and how they coordinated their relationships with society.

And the second task of this article is to listen to the narratives of those people who were the subjects of the survey and support. What did they think about society ? How did they express and present themselves before the general public ? And I would like to think about how they were trying to build a relationship between themselves and society.

Through these considerations, we will clarify one aspect of the process of forming the norm of “good citizens” at the boundaries of citizenship.