Discrimination and Gender as Told by the Ainu People

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  • アイヌの人々が語る差別とジェンダー
  • Focusing on the “Lived-world” of Ainu and Wajin Women
  • アイヌ女性と和人女性の“生活世界”に注目して

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In this report, based on interviews with women aged 20-70 living in Ainu society, I will examine their experiences of discrimination and clarify their discriminatory structures. I will focus not only on Ainu women of Ainu descent, but also on "Wajin" (majority ethnic group in Japan) women who entered Ainu society through marriage. 　From the narratives of older Ainu women, it is possible to grasp the intersectional discrimination structure. Older Ainu women who have experienced discrimination have strategically desired to marry Wajin in order to “dilute their blood ” and have concealed their ethnicity by not publicly declaring their Ainu identity. 　On the other hand, while Wajin women are labeled by the Japanese society as “women in Ainu society,” they are a minority in the family because they are not of Ainu blood. Therefore, I will also discuss the suffering of Wajin women as double outsiders.

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