阿薩姆地區尼泊爾移民的跨文化認同形成

The Cross-cultural Identity Formation of Migrants: The Case of the Nepali Migrants in Assam

浦南(Poonam Sharma)

指導教授 ： 方天賜

國立清華大學/人文社會學院/社會學研究所/碩士(2015年)

https://doi.org/10.6843/NTHU.2015.00282

摘要

Several studies prove that the process of migration and the aspects relevant to it have turned more intense and complicated with the dawn of globalization. This process dates back to centuries past when humans migrated from one place to another for factors such as food, clothing, shelter ，and climate and natural disasters. In this thesis I have made a study about the cross-cultural identity of the Nepalis in Assam, a north-eastern state of India. Here, my research focuses on the process of formation of a cross-cultural identity, based on comments and experiences of a group of migrants residing in Assam. In the following chapters I will answer about the Nepali migrants residing in Assam, the cultural identity of the Nepalis in Assam, the reasons for having or not having a cross-cultural identity and many more. This research will show that although majority of the Nepalis have adapted to the formation of a cross-cultural identity, this formation is directly or indirectly forced and influenced by factors like economic, political, social and psychological behind formation of a cross-cultural identity. Lastly, I will also reveal the consequences in both positive and negative forms attached with this identity formation.

關鍵字

阿薩姆 ； 尼泊爾移民 ； 文化認同 ； 跨文化認同形構

並列摘要

相較於過去數世紀人們以尋求衣、食、住所為目的而進行遷移，全球化背景下的移民現象更加普遍，問題也更加複雜，與此相關的學術作品已有相當豐碩的成果。在既有的研究基礎上，本研究針對印度東北部阿薩姆邦尼泊爾移民的生命經驗進行深度訪談，探討其跨文化認同的形構過程，回答他們是否具跨文化認同，其可能原因是什麼。本研究將呈現，儘管多數尼泊爾移民已形成跨文化認同，有幾項因素直接或間接作用於跨文化認同形構過程中，分別是：經濟、政治、社會、邊緣化、社會不平等、心理壓力、孤單，這個過程伴隨著正面或負面的結果。

並列關鍵字

Nepali Migrants ； Cultural Identity ； Cross-cultural Identity formation ； Assam.

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