Dissertation Research: Investigating Cultural Citizenship Among Second Generation Mexican Youth

论文研究：调查第二代墨西哥青年的文化公民身份

• 批准号: 0618958
• 负责人: Louise Lamphere
• 金额: $ 1.17万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-15 至 2007-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0618958&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Investigating; Cultural; Citizenship

Under the supervision of Dr. Louise Lamphere, graduate student researcher Christina Getrich will pursue research on the question of how U.S.-born children of Mexican immigrants integrate into American society. Her research will take place in San Diego, focusing on students in a competitive, after-school program that admits 45 poor students a year to prepare them for college. None of the students' parents attended college and three-fourths of them do not speak English. The goal of the research is to understand how Mexican youth enter into U.S. social, economic, and political life. Building on the theoretical notion of cultural citizenship, which recognizes that immigrants often maintain connections to the home country while simultaneously becoming part of their new country, the research will assess whether and how these ongoing connections to Mexico may be beneficial or detrimental. Preliminary research on the process of adjusting suggests that the deepened perspectives arising from bilingualism and cross-cultural awareness may actually situate Mexican second-generation youth well for success as adults in the multicultural United States of the globalized 21st century. Getrich will use a mixed method research strategy, including participant observation, free listing techniques, a population survey, a household census, focus groups, and semi-structured interviews. Photovoice, an innovative technique through which the youth photographically document everyday life conditions in their community, will be employed to prompt critical discussion of issues that affect the youth and their familiesThis research is important because second-generation immigrant youth are the fastest growing segment of the population and a group that will soon be maturing into a demographically significant portion of the adult population of the United States. Dynamics both within the United States and globally make it imperative to develop a better understanding of how Mexican and other immigrant children forge pathways of social, economic, and political inclusion into U.S. society.

在Louise Lamphere博士的监督下，研究生研究员Christina Getrich将研究墨西哥移民的儿童如何融入美国社会的问题。 她的研究将在圣地亚哥举行，重点是一项竞争性的课后课程，该课程每年接受45名贫困学生，为大学做准备。没有一个学生的父母上大学，其中四分之三不会说英语。该研究的目的是了解墨西哥青年如何进入美国社会，经济和政治生活。 基于文化公民身份的理论观念，该概念认识到移民经常保持与本国的联系，同时成为其新国家的一部分，该研究将评估这些与墨西哥的持续联系以及如何有益或有害。 对调整过程的初步研究表明，双语和跨文化意识所产生的深度观点实际上可能会使墨西哥第二代青年在全球21世纪的美国多元文化的21世纪成年人中取得成功。 Getrich将使用混合方法研究策略，包括参与者观察，免费上市技术，人口调查，家庭人口普查，焦点小组和半结构化访谈。 Photovoice是一种创新的技术，年轻人通过该技术记录了社区中的日常生活状况，将采用对影响青年及其家庭研究的问题的批判性讨论，因为第二代移民青年是人群中最快的人群，并且很快将成为美国成人成人人群的人口统计学重要的一部分。 美国境内和全球范围内的动态必须使人们必须更好地了解墨西哥和其他移民儿童如何锻炼社会，经济和政治包容的途径进入美国社会。