Dissertation Research: Before the Country Ceases to Exist: Mobilizing Against Migration in El Salvador

论文研究：在国家不复存在之前：动员萨尔瓦多反对移民

• 批准号: 0819580
• 负责人: Arturo Escobar
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 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: 2008-12-01 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0819580&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Before; Country; Ceases

Graduate student Joseph L. Wiltberger, under the supervision of Dr. Arturo Escobar, will undertake research on an emerging trend in countries with high rates of out migration. This trend is the rise of groups that collectively work toward constructing viable alternatives to migration and alternative forms of development, despite state-led strategies to facilitate migration, remittances, and other forms of development.Wiltberger will examine the situation in El Salvador as a test case. His field research will be multi-sited. Research will be conducted in both El Salvador and the United States. Data collection will focus on a region in northern El Salvador with a high rate of emigration and on the region's substantial migrant population in the Washington, D. C., area. A mix of qualitative research methods will be employed, including archival research, semi-structured interviews with migrants and community organizers, community history interviews, life trajectory intereviews, and participant observation in organizations trying to provide alternatives to migration. Wiltberger will collaborate with organizations in El Salvador and Salvadoran-led organizations in the United States that are responding to the question of immigration, drawing on contacts and experience from prior fieldwork in northern El Salvador. This research is important because it will provide critical insight into the contemporary immigration situation and thus will make a contribution to the fields of migration and development studies, as well as to improving immigration policy and regulation. The research will give a unique transnational and place-of-origin perspective on the practice and politics of migration. The research also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.

研究生 Joseph L. Wiltberger 在 Arturo Escobar 博士的指导下，将对高移民率国家的新兴趋势进行研究。这一趋势是，尽管有国家主导的促进移民、汇款和其他形式发展的战略，但集体致力于构建可行的移民替代方案和替代发展形式的群体正在崛起。威尔特伯格将研究萨尔瓦多的情况作为检验案件。他的实地研究将是多地点的。研究将在萨尔瓦多和美国进行。数据收集将重点关注萨尔瓦多北部移民率较高的地区以及该地区华盛顿特区的大量移民人口。 将采用多种定性研究方法，包括档案研究、对移民和社区组织者的半结构化访谈、社区历史访谈、生活轨迹访谈以及试图提供移民替代方案的组织中的参与者观察。 威尔特伯格将与萨尔瓦多的组织和萨尔瓦多领导的美国组织合作，利用先前在萨尔瓦多北部实地考察的联系和经验来应对移民问题。这项研究很重要，因为它将提供对当代移民状况的批判性见解，从而为移民和发展研究领域以及改善移民政策和监管做出贡献。该研究将为移民实践和政治提供独特的跨国和原籍地视角。该研究还将有助于社会科学家的教育。