Kazuki Murakami

Kazuki Murakami is currently a Senior Lecturer at Toyo University in Japan. He obtained his doctorate from Paris-Sorbonne University, and his research focuses on education in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods in France. He also conducts projects on issues of social cohesion in large public housing developments in Japan. In addition, he is actively involved in Japanese associations supporting young immigrants.

The project

Title: Parents raised in working-class neighborhoods: Identities and education 

"This research aims to understand how parents who grew up in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods, particularly those of immigrant origin, internalise the education and social experiences they received in their youth and reflect them in the upbringing of their children. Born and raised in France, these parents live between French society and the country of origin of their own parents.

While they internalise the values of French society, they remain deeply rooted in the culture and customs of their families of origin. The hypothesis is that they strategically mobilise French values in the formal education of their children, while simultaneously transmitting cultural and religious values in a positive way, providing their children with a “positive” sense of identity. Furthermore, these parents tend to assert their origins more actively in their children’s schooling than their own parents did.

The educational experiences of parents raised in disadvantaged neighbourhoods or of immigrant background have been insufficiently studied in previous research, particularly with regard to the period before they become parents themselves. Through qualitative research, this study examines how the education received in these neighbourhoods is reproduced and how the legacy of immigrant origins persists or fades across generations."

Hosting Institution: Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris (CRESPPA)

Selective Bibliography

• Murakami, Kazuki, Dignité et identité : Famille et école dans les quartiers populaires, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Dosctorat en Sociologie, mars 2017.
• Murakami, Kazuki  et Kana Yamamoto, " Collaboration between Residentsʼ Associations and Universities Regarding “Tabunka Kyosei” in Public Housing: The Multicultural Club Project in Kita Ward, Tokyo, The Bulletin of Faculty of Sociology,Toyo University, 62(1) : 5-21, 2024. [en japonais]
• Murakami, Kazuki , Integration and identity of the second generation of new Chinese immigrants in France : focusing on highly educated youth exploring their roots", Hakusan Anthropology, 25:45-66, 2022. [en japonais]
• Murakami, Kazuki, Muslim Community and Second-Generation Immigrants in France : Exploring New Identities, Mitsuhide Kuroki ed., Connectivity Among Immigrants and Refugees, Tokyo, The University of Tokyo Press, pp.141-163, 2024. [en japonais]