Filipino Catholics in Japan and ambiguity of 'full integration'

• Main Author: Macaraan, Willard Enrique R.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Filipino Catholics > Japan; Filipinos > Japan; Filipinos—Cultural assimilation > Japan; Religion
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1836
• Institution: De La Salle University

Utilizing Wacquant's theorization of urban ghetto, this paper argues based on a field study of selected churches in the Archdiocese of Tokyo that the negotiated existence of Filipino Catholics in Japan, at least in the Archdiocese, has shifted from being a "sworded victim" to being a...