Migration and Child Well-Being: The Perspective from Sending Areas

流动人口与儿童福祉：输出地区的视角

• 批准号: 0921090
• 负责人: Yao Lu
• 金额: $ 8.91万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0921090&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Migration; Child; Well; Being; Perspective

The proposed project will examine the effects of parental out-migration on child well-being in two developing settings. Rising internal and international migration has affected a growing number of children in developing countries. Most of these children are left behind as one or both parents leave to seek work elsewhere. Migration represents a distinct form of parental absence, and is likely to affect these children in complex ways, generating sizeable social costs as a result of parental absence, but bringing economic benefits through remittances. Using high-quality longitudinal datasets from Mexico and Indonesia with excellent comparability and rich micro- and macro-level information, this project seeks to: examine both the beneficial and detrimental impacts of migration on key aspects of well-being (education, cognitive development, and health) of children left behind in Mexico and Indonesia; explore how various socioeconomic, psychosocial, and behavioral factors mediate the effects of migration on child well-being; and assess the generalizability of results across two streams of migration (within-country and cross-country) and across the two research settings. Longitudinal data analysis methods (fixed- and random-effect modeling) will be used to strengthen causal claims.This research will provide comprehensive and robust information on the effects of out-migration on children and will have practical policy implications, not only for the two study settings, but also for other developing countries experiencing large-scale migration. Such information can inform the design of intervention programs by local governments and global development organizations such as USAID and UNICEF, to reinforce the benefits while mitigating the costs of out-migration for children. The proposed pathway analysis has the greatest promise of translating scientific knowledge into intervention strategies, as it helps to uncover specific factors that could be more effectively targeted. The cross-country comparison also will strengthen the study, helping to distinguish common from context-specific processes, thus leading to more efficient design and implementation of the intervention programs across different settings.

拟议的项目将检查父母外移民对两个发展中的儿童福祉的影响。内部和国际移民的上升影响了发展中国家越来越多的儿童。这些孩子中的大多数被遗忘，因为一个或两个父母要去其他地方寻求工作。移民代表了父母缺席的一种独特形式，并且很可能以复杂的方式影响这些孩子，从而导致父母缺席导致相当大的社会成本，但通过汇款带来了经济利益。该项目利用墨西哥和印度尼西亚的高质量纵向数据集，具有出色的可比性以及丰富的微观和宏观信息，该项目试图：研究移民对福祉（教育，认知发展和健康）儿童在墨西哥和印度尼西亚留下的儿童的有益和有害影响；探索各种社会经济，社会心理和行为因素如何介导迁移对儿童幸福感的影响；并评估两个迁移流（国内和越野）以及两个研究环境中结果的普遍性。纵向数据分析方法（固定和随机效应建模）将用于加强因果主张。这项研究将提供有关外国人对儿童的影响的全面，强大的信息，并将对两个研究环境产生实际政策影响，对其他经历大型移民的其他发展中国家也具有实际的政策意义。这些信息可以为地方政府和全球发展组织（例如美国国际开发署和联合国儿童基金会）的干预计划的设计提供信息，以增强收益，同时减轻儿童的迁移成本。提出的途径分析具有将科学知识转化为干预策略的最大希望，因为它有助于发现可以更有效针对的特定因素。越野比较还将加强研究，有助于将共同点与上下文特定的过程区分开，从而导致更有效的设计和在不同环境中的干预计划的实施。