Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: A Social Science Investigation of Violence along the Migrant Trail in Mexico

博士论文改进补助金：墨西哥移民沿线暴力的社会科学调查

• 批准号: 0819266
• 负责人: Linda Green
• 金额: $ 0.87万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0819266&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Social

University of Arizona graduate student Wendy Vogt, advised by Dr. Linda B. Green, will undertake research on the violence experienced by Central American migrants travelling through Mexico to the United States. Mexico has become a major transit country for Central American migrants hoping to reach the United States. Increasingly, these migrants have violent encounters, particularly between Guatemala and Mexico City. Vogt's research will be focused on what produces this violence and why it has increased in recent years.Vogt will employ a multi-methods approach. She will use archival records in southern Mexico and Mexico City to document changes in government policies towards immigrants as well as recent changes in economic patterns in the communities through which the migrants pass. In addition to the archival component, Vogt will identify three key communites along the migrant trail. In each of these communities she will employ ethnographic methods such as participant observation, structured and semi-structured interviews, and oral history elicitation. These data will allow Vogt to link local experiences with larger national and international processes, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, to determine at how these external factors are mediated locally through everyday social relations between and among Central American migrants and local Mexican residents. This research is important in that it will contribute to social science theory about how changes in national and international processes connect with regional and local lives. The research also may contribute to developing policies for protecting both migrants and the communities through which they pass from escalating violence. Finally, the research will contribute to the education of a social scientist.An anthropological focus on the journey will contribute to a more complete understanding of how migration processes and violence impact not only migrants, but reshape the lives of multiple actors in meaningful and material ways.

亚利桑那大学的研究生温迪·沃格特（Wendy Vogt）由琳达·B·格林（Linda B.墨西哥已成为希望到达美国的中美洲移民的主要过境国。这些移民越来越有暴力遭遇，尤其是在危地马拉和墨西哥城之间。 Vogt的研究将集中在造成这种暴力的原因以及近年来造成这种暴力的原因上。Vogt将采用多方法方法。她将使用墨西哥南部和墨西哥城的档案记录来记录政府对移民的政策的变化，以及移民通过的社区经济模式的最新变化。除档案组件外，VOGT还将沿着移民步道识别三个关键的社区。在每个社区中，她都将采用民族志方法，例如参与者观察，结构化和半结构化访谈以及口述历史启发。这些数据将使Vogt一方面将本地经验与更大的国家和国际过程联系起来，另一方面，通过中美洲移民和墨西哥当地居民之间的日常社会关系来确定这些外部因素如何在本地介导的。这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于社会科学理论，即国家和国际过程中的变化如何与地区和地方生活联系在一起。这项研究还可能有助于制定保护移民和他们免受暴力升级的社区的政策。最后，这项研究将有助于社会科学家的教育。人类学对旅程的关注将有助于对移民过程和暴力如何影响移民的影响更全面地理解，而且还以有意义的物质方式重塑了多个行为者的生活。