This paper examines whether the residential patterns of small nationality‐based ethnic groups in Japan, such as Afghans, Laotians, Bolivians and Turks, can be successfully explained by the model of heterolocalism, which is well‐known for comprehensively explaining the patterns of new immigrants. This verification work is conducted based on census microdata, mapping and interviews with the foreigners. The model is characterized by five propositions, two of which are found not to apply to the Japanese case. Namely, regarding the ‘spatial dispersion’ proposition, a series of small‐sized clusters of foreign inhabitants was confirmed, suggesting that nodal heterolocalism as a modified model is better than the original model. As for the proposition of ‘spatial disjuncture between home and work’, we find that the places of work and residence show spatial proximity rather than separation, reflecting the fact that most of the foreign inhabitants are engaged in blue‐collar occupations. The obtained results serve as criticism of the heterolocalism model, which emphasizes that it is valid not only for the relatively privileged but also for certain lower‐status groups.

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异乡主义可以解释日本少数外国人的居住模式吗？阿富汗人、老挝人、玻利维亚人和土耳其人的案例


本文探讨了阿富汗人、老挝人、玻利维亚人和土耳其人等日本小民族的居住模式能否成功地用异地主义模型来解释，异地主义模型因全面解释新移民的模式而闻名。 。这项核查工作是根据人口普查微观数据、测绘和对外国人的访谈进行的。该模型有五个命题，其中两个命题不适用于日本案例。也就是说，关于“空间分散”命题，一系列小规模的外来居民集群得到了证实，这表明节点异地主义作为修改后的模型比原始模型更好。对于“家庭与工作的空间脱节”这一命题，我们发现工作地点与居住地点在空间上接近而不是分离，反映出大多数外来居民从事蓝领职业的事实。所获得的结果是对异地主义模型的批评，强调它不仅对相对特权群体有效，而且对某些地位较低的群体也有效。