Doctoral Dissertation Research: Remittance Management During Disaster Recovery

博士论文研究：灾后恢复期间的汇款管理

• 批准号: 1833226
• 负责人: Susan Roberts
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833226&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Remittance; Management

This doctoral dissertation research improvement project analyzes the roles of different community's members in the decision-making about remittance allocations during disaster recovery. Human migration flows across borders is matched by financial (remittances) and communication counter-flows that sustain both the migrant at their destination and their families at their origin. Remittances sent by migrants are commonly used to meet basic consumption needs and for investment in education and housing, but they are also a key resource that communities mobilize in the aftermath of natural disasters. While it is generally understood that remittances constitute an important source of household income and contributor to community development projects, particularly during disaster recovery, what is less understood is the role of women in the decision-making about the use of remittances during such recoveries. This project will inform the understandings of how remittance management is organized at the local level, specifically women's roles in decision-making, and has the potential to inform policy to be more attuned to the significance of the role of women in remittance management, especially in post-disaster recovery situations. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide support to enable a promising doctoral student. This project advances knowledge on how global migration and finance flows rely upon and rework family networks and local communities. It will do so by answering two central research questions. First, it assesses how a community manages remittances in the context of other financial and resources inputs, especially when stressed due to a natural disaster. Second, it investigates how negotiations over remittances are transforming the lives of women. Specifically, this research project will analyze (1) the precise ways that remittances are managed after a natural disaster; (2) how women participate in remittance management at the household and community level; and (3) how the process of negotiating the use of remittances is transforming the responsibilities, labor, and social involvement of women in communities. The doctoral student will combine a comprehensive household survey with qualitative methods such as archival research, participant observation, and semi-structured interviews in a case study of the post-earthquake recovery in Oaxaca, Mexico. The research will contribute new theoretical insights on the relationship between gender, labor, and citizenship as well as generate new findings on how global migration and remittance flows are mobilized by family networks and local communities in post-disaster situations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该博士学位论文研究改进项目分析了不同社区成员在灾难恢复期间有关汇款的决策中的作用。 人类跨境的迁移流与财务（汇款）和传播柜台相匹配，这些交流柜台既维持他们目的地的移民，又维持其起源的家人。 移民发送的汇款通常用于满足基本的消费需求和对教育和住房的投资，但它们也是社区动员自然灾害后社区的关键资源。 虽然通常可以理解，汇款构成了家庭收入的重要来源和社区发展项目的贡献者，尤其是在灾难恢复期间，但尚不清楚的是妇女在这种恢复过程中使用汇款的决策中的作用。 该项目将告知人们对汇款管理如何在地方一级组织的理解，尤其是妇女在决策中的作用，并有可能告知政策，以使妇女在汇款管理中的作用更加重要，尤其是在灾后恢复情况下。 作为博士学位论文研究改进奖，该项目将提供支持，以启用有前途的博士生。该项目促进了有关全球移民和金融流程如何依赖和返回家庭网络和当地社区的知识。 它将通过回答两个中心研究问题来做到这一点。 首先，它评估社区如何在其他财务和资源投入的背景下管理汇款，尤其是在由于自然灾害而受到压力时。 其次，它调查了有关汇款的谈判如何改变妇女的生活。 具体而言，该研究项目将分析（1）自然灾害后汇款的确切方式； （2）妇女如何参与家庭和社区层面的汇款管理； （3）谈判使用汇款的过程如何改变妇女在社区中的责任，劳动和社会参与。 博士生将在墨西哥瓦哈卡州的地球后恢复案例研究中将一项全面的家庭调查与诸如档案研究，参与者观察和半结构化访谈之类的定性方法相结合。 这项研究将对性别，劳动和公民身份之间关系的新理论见解做出新的见解，并为全球迁移和汇款流如何被家庭网络和当地社区在灾后情况下动员。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，反映了通过使用该基金会和广泛的智力效果来评估支持的法定任务，并具有评估者的支持。