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OU-OSIPP-Kawmura-sensei

KAWAMURA, Michiya

Field of Research

Multiculturalism, Liberalism, Migration

Research Topics

Sociology, Ethnicity, Citizenship

Overview of Research 

Today, people with different cultural backgrounds have difficulty living together in society, as can be seen by the rise of anti-immigration movements and immigrants’ protests against them. In order to mitigate these outbreaks, I am researching on the type of normative principle hostile people might accept to facilitate coexistence.

There have been two major principles related to this issue. One is that the government should stay neutral to different cultures (integrationism). This concept allows diverse peoples to embrace any tradition, religion, value, and interest in the private realm, but orders them to follow generalized rules in the public sphere. However, this neutrality-oriented policy may not be able to correct the hidden inequalities suffered by immigrants.

The other is that the government preferentially supports immigrants with disrespected cultures (multiculturalism). This concept presumes that immigrants will enter society with the conviction that the governmental supports are the sign for recognition of immigrants’ cultures and identities. However, this policy is likely to encourage majorities to capture minority groups in a fixed manner, also forcing minorities to keep their values and cultures unchanged.

In the end, integrationism is too negative while multiculturalism is too positive to support immigrants. To overcome this dilemma, I argue that the primary support given to immigrants should be a guarantee of sufficient social capital. In order for people to enjoy equal opportunities, it is necessary for them to be able to receive useful information from others, trust each other, and cooperate with others in times of need. Since immigrants often lack such social capital, they suffer from unequal opportunities to pursue their income or cultural recognition. It is not necessary to endow prestige to immigrants’ cultures as multiculturalism assumes, but neither should the hidden sufferings of immigrants remain untouched as is the case with integrationism. All that is necessary is to guarantee immigrants enough social capital, the lack of which is often overlooked by host countries.

People with different cultural backgrounds accrue social capital not by receiving positive support from the country, but by being included in a transcultural network as social capital is naturally generated from the interactions of people. Therefore, I am currently working on the form of social network that can effectively generate social capital and how to build such a social network in a normatively valid way. 

Message to Students

The fields of the professors working in political science in OSIPP range from diplomatic history to international organizations and conflict studies. I am engaged in researching the last subject, which also includes the most number of professors. I have addressed it from a normative point of view, as mentioned above, but other professors are conducting more empirical research. I think there are various approaches to conflict studies and that one of the merits of studying in OSIPP is the opportunity to learn about these differences. I welcome students who are interested in the dialogue between normative and empirical approaches to conflict studies.

KAWAMURA, Michiya 
Associate Professor
Degree: Master of Sociology (The University of Tokyo)
kawamura@osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp

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AKAI, Nobuo

Professor
Public Economics
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HASUO, Ikuyo 

Professor
Global Governance, International Public Administration

HAWKINS, Virgil

Professor
International Politics, Media Studies

HOSHINO, Toshiya

Professor
International Politics, United Nations Studies

IKEFUJI, Masako
Professor

Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics

ISHISE, Hirokazu

Associate Professor
Macroeconomics, International Economics

KATAGIRI, Azusa

Associate Professor
International Relations, Political Methodology

KAMADA, Takuma

Associate Professor
Criminology, Urban Sociology, Social Inequality
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KAWAMURA, Michiya

Associate Professor
Multiculturalism, Liberalism, Migration

KIDO, Eiichi

Professor
Contemporary German Politics, Peace Studies

KOHARA, Miki

Professor
Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics

MATSUBAYASHI, Tetsuya

Professor
Political Science, Political Economics, Social Epidemiology

MINAMI, Kazushi

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International Relations of East Asia, U.S. Foreign Relations, Cold War

MUROOKA, Takeshi

Associate Professor
Psychology and Economics, Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory

NAKAJIMA, Hiroo

Professor
History of American Foreign Relations, International History

NISUGI, Kento

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International Law

NIWA, Hidekazu

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Macroeconomics

OKUBO, Kunihiko

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Civil Law

OTSUKI, Tsunehiro

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Development Economics

SAIRENJI, Takayuki

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SUNAGA, Miho

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Macro Economics

TABUCHI, Yumi

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History of U.S. Foreign Relations

TAKATA, Hinako

Associate Professor
International Law
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TAKAHASHI, Hidenori

Associate Professor

Empirical Industrial Organization

WANG,Dongqin

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Development Economics, Health Economics

TAKII, Katsuya

Professor
Economics of Human Resource Allocation, Economics of Human Capital and Organization, Search and Matching Theory

WANI, Kentaro

Professor
International Law

ABE, Shuya

Assistant Professor
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