Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Effects of Immigration on Local Understandings of Mental Health

博士论文研究：移民对当地心理健康理解的影响

• 批准号: 1026819
• 负责人: Janis Jenkins
• 金额: $ 1.9万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-15 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1026819&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Effects; Immigration

Doctoral student, Whitney L. Duncan, with the guidance of her advisor Dr. Janis H. Jenkins, will undertake research on a specific aspect of globalization: the spread of Euroamerican psychiatric and psychological practices and ideologies to new sites around the world, where local understandings of emotion and illness are being impacted in multiple ways. The study will investigate if and how globalizing mental health ideologies are changing local medical systems, conceptions about what it means to be emotionally stable, what therapeutic modalities are appropriate for those who are not stable, and the subjective experience of emotional distress. The research will be carried out in the local context of Oaxaca, Mexico. Over the past two decades, Oaxaca has seen dramatic increases in diagnosed mental illnesses, a spike in the availability of psychiatric and psychological services, and an unprecedented demand for mental healthcare. This multi-sited ethnographic study investigates how and why the growth in mental healthcare has occurred and what impact it is having on Oaxacans' conceptions and experiences of emotional distress. Ethnographic research will be carried out in the capital city of Oaxaca de Juárez as well as in the indigenous Mixteca region, where emigration is ubiquitous. The investigator will conduct long-term participant observation, structured, semi-structured, and life history interviews, and sociolinguistic analysis of casual interactions. The research is important because it will provide an ethnographic account of the cultural context of emotion, illness, and healing in a particular locale, and will advance theoretical understanding of how those aspects of social life and subjectivity change under competing local and global discourses. Conducting the proposed study in Oaxaca at this moment of cultural change and social flux will illuminate the effects globalizing mental health practices and discourses are having at the local level. The results of the research also will help practitioners working with Mexican migrant communities in the United States. Funding the research supports the education of a graduate student.

博士生惠特尼·L·邓肯 (Whitney L. Duncan) 在导师贾尼斯·H·詹金斯 (Janis H. Jenkins) 博士的指导下，将研究全球化的一个具体方面：欧美精神病学和心理实践以及意识形态向世界各地的新地点传播，当地的该研究将调查全球化的心理健康意识形态是否以及如何改变当地的医疗系统、关于情绪稳定意味着什么的概念以及哪些治疗方式适合那些情绪不稳定的人。 ,该研究将在墨西哥瓦哈卡州当地进行，在过去的二十年里，瓦哈卡州诊断出的精神疾病急剧增加，精神科和心理服务的可用性激增。这项多地点的民族志研究调查了精神卫生保健的增长是如何以及为何发生的，以及它对瓦哈卡人的情绪困扰的概念和经历有何影响。的城市瓦哈卡德华雷斯以及移民普遍存在的米斯特卡土著地区，调查人员将进行长期参与观察、结构化、半结构化和生活史访谈，以及随意互动的社会语言学分析。它将提供对特定地区的情感、疾病和治疗的文化背景的民族志描述，并将促进对社会生活和主观性的这些方面如何在竞争性的本地和全球话语下发生变化的理论理解。在文化变革和社会变迁的时刻，拟议在瓦哈卡进行的研究将阐明全球化心理健康实践和话语对当地的影响。研究结果也将有助于在美国与墨西哥移民社区合作的从业者。资助研究支持研究生的教育。