第106回アジア太平洋研究センター（WIAPS）研究会 (7/13)

開催日時

2026年7月13日（月）12:25-13:00

場所

ZOOMウェビナー

参加資格

WIAPS専任教員・助教, GSAPS兼担教員, WIAPS受入の交換研究員・訪問学者・外国人研究員, GSAPS修士課程・博士後期課程在学生

報告者

相川真穂（早稲田大学アジア太平洋研究センター助教）

報告テーマ

Dependency Image in a Paternalistic International Relation: Exploring Their Roles through Two Different Intergroup Contexts 

（使用言語：英語）

要旨

Intergroup relations research in social psychology has often treated intergroup phenomena in unequal relationships between two groups as intergroup conflicts (Rouhana, 2018), and the field has focused less on paternalistic and non-conflictual phenomena in such a relationship (Jackman, 1994). According to Jackman (1994), paternalism is characterized by a cooperative yet unequal relationship where a subordinate group is dependent on the dominant group. The current talk aims to go over the speaker’s past and ongoing research on the dependency image and its roles in paternalistic intergroup relations. Specifically, the talk will first provide the summaries of our past study exploring the dependency image of Japan in the US-Japan relationship in the context of the US military bases in Japan. Then, the talk will cover our ongoing study exploring the dependency image in a different intergroup context: immigrant workers and their relationships with employers and Japanese workers in Japan. When it comes to immigrant workers in Japan, they are often in a position where they have to rely on their employers for their legal status in the country and other resources (e.g., Iwashita, 2021). The current study aims to understand how this dependency is perceived and understood by the immigrant workers themselves and Japanese workers. The current talk will provide the preliminary findings from this ongoing study. Then, I will discuss the implications of our past and ongoing study and shed light on some similarities and differences in the role of the dependency image between the two different intergroup contexts.