Moving Up the Social Ladder: Education Strategies among South American Migrants Living in an Immigrant Settlement Area in Japan

This paper clarifies the commonality and variety of educational strategies used within groups of South American territorial immigrant communities in Japan. There is a lack of studies examining the relationships between social structures and individual educational strategies and between territorial immigrant communities and educational strategies. Therefore, this study analyzes the ways in which communities affect the educational strategies of individual immigrants, based on a survey undertaken in the W Complex, one of the largest immigrant population centers in Japan.