日系国際児の文化間移動と言語・文化・文化的アイデンティティ

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The purpose of this study is to examine how moving to a new culture during adolescence influenced Japanese-Indonesian children by using the case study method. In particular we looked at how their language and culture changed and how their cultural identity was formed. The participants were an adolescent siblings (a brother and sister) who have a Japanese mother and an Indonesian father and were born and raised in Japan. They later moved to Indonesia during their adolescence. Semi-constructed interviews were conducted 2-3 times a year. In addition, participant observations were carried out at their school. The analysis was mainly qualitative in nature. The results suggest that domicile changes by moving to a new culture or age at the time of the move play important roles for their language, culture and cultural identity.