Immigrants Village After A Disaster Related Communication Research

After Wenchuan earthquake on May12th,2008, in the disaster area,the part of theresidents are housed by government which take the way of reconstruction in another placeafter the disaster. People who are separated themselves from living a long time of community,the original environment of social relations is broken. People’s communication mode andrelationship have changed. Special dynamic factors led to these changes, people need to takesome adaptation strategies to cope with changes. To the kinship which is the structural basisof the construction of social relations, the evolution of kinship and its role are important pointof study social network in the modernization process, and the association between relatives indaily folk activity is the best angle to observe the state of the kinship. Through observing theprocess of the folk practice which is under the space apart and the cultural space changing,comparing the condition of kinship association is the basis of observing and understanding theadaptation condition of kinship of immigration community, as well as the key of exploring thechanges of disaster immigration’s social relations.This paper investigates the “condition of kinship communication in the folk practice”through the field observations of a Qiang village of reconstruction in another place after thedisaster, which is Muti Village (belonged to Longxi Town of Wenchuan County before, nowbelongs to Nanbao Town of Qionglai County).The research methodology includes folklore,anthropology to interpret the development situation of kinship in the folk practice whichbefore and after immigrants. To compare the development situation of kinship in the folkpractice before and after immigrants, to explore the changing of kinship and strategy whichpeople need to take in the folk practice. Through the above analysis, we can sum up thedynamic factors for the kinship changes, then discussing it by direct factors and indirectfactors from immigrants and the economic development lead to the change in the concept ofkinship. Another, we could get enlightenments about the local social relations and thedevelopment of folk practice through the strategy principles which people take, and deepdiscussing for the problem of kinship communication.Currently the academic research of the kinship changing has started with the angle ofdiachronic of social development, lacking of the research of kinship in folk practice ofdisaster immigrants under the angle of simultaneity. The paper tried to fix the defect to acertain degree. At the same time, pay more attention to the minority migrant villages anddisaster immigrants can reflect the humane care and the attention of community ofpost-disaster reconstruction, this paper provides a reference for similar studies in the future.