Forgotten Families in Japan's Domestic Migration : Population Outflow from Sennan District, Osaka Prefecture, 1893-1907

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In Japan, from the late nineteenth century onward, an increasing number of people migrated in search of jobs due to industrialization. Such migration has been assumed to be affected by the family system. In a family, except for one offspring who became the heir, his or her siblings were required to leave home by marriage. Thus, it has been claimed that migration was associated with unmarried young people who were destined to leave home. This study examines such a conventional view by investigating the population outflow from Nishittotori Village, in Sennan District, Osaka Prefecture, between 1893 and 1907. A majority of the female migrants left the village along with their families. While a greater proportion of their male counterparts migrated alone, the number of male migrants who left the village with their families exceeded the number of those who migrated alone. The reason for this was that a large number of parents and their children migrated together. More than half of all the migrants, irrespective of sex, were below 15 years of age, or 30 years of age and above. Thus, the population outflow from this village was associated with married people and their families rather than unmarried young people.
2005-12-14