Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Political Economy of Migration and Identity

博士论文研究：移民与身份的政治经济学

• 批准号: 2049249
• 负责人: JEMIMA PIERRE
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-01 至 2023-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049249&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Economy

Political turmoil, ecological disasters, and economic crises have led to an increase in migration. What impact do these mass movements have both on national and regional policies, and on the experiences and identity of newly arrived populations? This doctoral dissertation project investigates how national policies that attempt to exclude versus integrate newly arrived populations affect migrant identity and experience, and how this feeds back on policies and national identities. The project tests and synthesizes theories of governance, migration, and identity, and supports the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis.This is a multi-sited ethnographic study with working-class, newly arrived migrants in two contexts, where attitudes toward and policies affecting migrants differ. Specifically, the doctoral student will carry out participant observation in organizations serving working-class migrants and will conduct informal open-ended and semi-structured interviews with migrants and other important stakeholders affecting and affected by migration. These findings will be complemented by textual analysis of local, mainstream, and alternative presses that provide concrete documentation of migrant-relevant policies, supports, and information. The resulting research findings will allow for greater understanding of the dynamics and consequences of transnational migration governance; the cultural, economic, and political significance of integration versus exclusion for migrants; and the implications of mass population movements for identity at local, regional, and national levels.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.

政治动荡、生态灾难和经济危机导致移民增加。这些群众运动对国家和地区政策以及新来人口的经历和身份有什么影响？本博士论文项目研究了试图排除或融合新来人口的国家政策如何影响移民身份和经验，以及这如何反馈到政策和国家身份。该项目测试并综合了治理、移民和身份理论，并支持对人类学研究生进行实证、科学数据收集和分析方法的培训。这是一项多地点的民族志研究，涉及工人阶级、新移民抵达的移民有两种情况，对移民的态度和影响移民的政策各不相同。具体来说，博士生将在为工薪阶层移民服务的组织中进行参与式观察，并对移民和其他影响移民和受移民影响的重要利益相关者进行非正式的开放式和半结构化访谈。这些发现将得到对当地、主流和另类媒体的文本分析的补充，这些媒体提供了移民相关政策、支持和信息的具体记录。由此产生的研究结果将有助于更好地了解跨国移民治理的动态和后果；移民融入与排斥的文化、经济和政治意义；该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。