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Faculty of Economics Department of Co-existing Society Studies

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Faculty Introduction

ISHIKAWA, Shinsaku Professor

Specialized fields
  • Cultural Anthropology, Multicultural Studies (Turkish Area Studies, Immigration Studies)
Research Keywords
  • Social integration of immigrants in Europe; Multicultural coexistence in Japan
Courses taught
  • Cultural diversity, multicultural society theory, fundamentals of fieldwork, fieldwork IIb, basic seminar, seminars I, II, and III
Representative works
  • "The Role and Actual Operations of Supervising Organizations in the Technical Intern Training Program: Interviews with Supervising Organization Personnel," *Welfare Society Theory*, Vol. XII, 2019.
  • "Anti-Islam and Cultural Issues in 'Immigrant Nation' Germany," *Global Risk Studies*, Japan Institute of International Affairs, 2018.
  • "The Ideology and Educational Approach of the HIZMET Movement," in Sumiko Yamamoto (ed.), *School Adaptation of Second-Generation Immigrants in Europe: An Educational Anthropological Approach to Superdiversity*, Akashi Shoten, 2017.
  • "The Culture and Local Communities of Turkish Immigrants in Germany: A Cultural Anthropological Study on Social Integration," Rikkyo University Press, 2012.
  • "EU Society Illuminated from the Periphery: An Anthropology of Immigrants, Minorities, and Citizenship" (editor), Sekai Shiso-sha, 2012.
Message from the teacher

My specialty is cultural anthropology, and I teach courses on multicultural coexistence. Cultural anthropology is the study of the "cultures" of people in various regions of the world through fieldwork. Some people may wonder why there is a cultural anthropology professor in the economics department. The "culture" that cultural anthropology deals with is culture in a broad sense, that is, the accumulation of human thought, behavior, and, so to speak, ways of life. Naturally, the economic aspect is also very important in this context.

Discussions about multicultural coexistence cannot be understood solely from the perspective of "culture" in a narrow sense, but rather from a broader perspective that includes economic aspects—that is, from the entirety of human life. Department of Co-existing Society Studies offers such a broad perspective for learning.

Multicultural coexistence means getting along well with people who have different languages, religions, and customs. However, to put it extremely, we can never fully know anyone other than ourselves, so understanding people who are different to us is not something special, but something we do every day. What is needed is imagination. Let's learn together to cultivate the "imagination" that allows us to consider a wide range of things.

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