Doctoral Dissertation Research: Intergenerational Transmission of Status in New Immigrant Families

博士论文研究：新移民家庭的身份代际传递

• 批准号: 1738696
• 负责人: Shamus Khan
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738696&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Intergenerational; Transmission

Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Intergenerational Transmission Through Undocumented Status PI: Shamus Khan, PhD; Co-PI: Nicol ValdezNSF Abstract This project is a study of U.S.-born, citizen youth to better understand the intergenerational transfer of citizenship status. The project compares the experience of youth from undocumented and documented immigrant families. The legal-illegal dichotomy ingrained in U.S. immigration policies is conceptually limiting for understanding the diversity of citizenship experiences for the children of immigrants. A more nuanced analysis is now required to further uncover the generational effects of parental undocumented status on their U.S. born children with citizenship. This type of research offers new ways of understanding the intergenerational transmission of parents' social background to their children and develops insight into how local context can mediate and shape the lived experiences of immigrant origin youth. This research holds the potential to help policy makers, educators, and the wider public understand the social implications of undocumented status for future generations. This comparative qualitative study will interrogate intra-group differences related to the legal status of Mexican-American families residing in New York City. The hypothesis guiding this research is that parents? undocumented status creates a social context that is inheritable or passed on to subsequent generations. Interviews with both undocumented and documented families coupled with ethnographic observations of a subset of these families will provide new insights into the strategies undocumented families employ in their daily lives. This study takes a multi-level ecological approach by gathering observations across both the individual and contextual level. On the individual level, the study will provide a descriptive portrait of the everyday lives of undocumented and documented Mexican-American parents as they raise their families. On a contextual level, this study will detail the highly variable experiences of undocumented parents and their children resulting from factors such as neighborhoods, schools, and social networks. Given that the undocumented experience is often shaped by the local factors, New York's policies on immigrant families can offer insight into how states can help ameliorate the negative impact of an undocumented parent. More broadly, the stakes are high for creating a more empowered and educated immigrant origin youth population, whose future achievements do matter in aiding the competitive advantage of our nation.

博士论文研究：通过无证件状态的代际传播PI：Shamus Khan博士； Co-Pi：Nicol Valdeznsf摘要该项目是对美国出生的公民青年的研究，以更好地了解公民身份的代际转移。 该项目比较了无证件和有记录的移民家庭的青年经验。 在美国移民政策中根深蒂固的法律截法术在概念上限制是了解移民子女的公民身份经历的多样性。现在需要进行更细微的分析，以进一步揭示父母无证件地位对其公民身份的美国儿童的世代影响。这种研究提供了理解父母社会背景向子女的代际传播的新方法，并洞悉了当地环境如何调解和塑造移民起源青年的生活经历。这项研究具有帮助政策制定者，教育工作者和更广泛的公众了解未记录地位对子孙后代的社会影响。这项比较定性的研究将询问与居住在纽约市的墨西哥裔美国家庭的法律地位有关的团体内差异。指导这项研究的假设是父母？无证件状态会创建一种可继承或传递给后代的社会环境。对无证件和有记录的家庭的访谈以及对这些家庭的一部分人的民族志观察将提供新的见解，以了解无证件家庭在日常生活中采用的策略。这项研究通过收集个人和上下文层面的观察来采用多层次的生态方法。在个人层面上，这项研究将为墨西哥裔美国人的父母抚养家人时的日常生活提供描述性肖像。在上下文层面上，这项研究将详细介绍由社区，学校和社交网络等因素引起的无证件父母及其子女的高度可变经历。鉴于无证经历通常是由当地因素塑造的，因此纽约关于移民家庭的政策可以洞悉各州如何帮助改善无证件父母的负面影响。更广泛地说，这些赌注很高，可以创造一个更具授权和教育的移民起源青年人口，他们的未来成就在协助我们国家的竞争优势方面确实很重要。