Open AccessMigrants’ Influence to Indigenous Socio Political Practices of the BangsaSama in Tawi-Tawi
Author(s) -
Jeffrey Yasin A. Noor
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of science and management studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-5946
DOI - 10.51386/25815946/ijsms-v2i3p110
Subject(s) - politics , focus group , indigenous , context (archaeology) , sociology , narrative , triangulation , qualitative research , gender studies , social psychology , social science , geography , psychology , political science , anthropology , cartography , law , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , ecology , biology
The population of the peoplein the province of Tawi-Tawi is densely inhabited by the BangsaSama. The BangsaSama scholars agreed that all people have varied traditional socio-political practices. Thus, Tawi-Tawi consists of different cultures in contrast with the more complex migrant groups. The triangulation technique method of qualitative research is utilized in this study. The descriptive-narrative survey method with key informant’s personal interview and the organized focus group discussion were used as data gathering tools to look into the influences of the migrants to the traditional socio-political practices of the BangsaSama in Tawi-Tawi. The different between the BangsaSama and the migrants lie in the degree of their complexity and rapidity of influences taking place within the group. Along this, the BangsaSama no matter how simple in their ways of living has a culture of their own. Undeniably, this study looked into the changes of the traditional socio-political practices of the BangsaSama as influenced by the migrants within the Tawi-Tawian context.