Well-being of Youth/Migrant/Seasonal Farmworker Families

青年/移民/季节工家庭的福祉

• 批准号: 7035313
• 负责人: JILL FINDEIS
• 金额: $ 7.08万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-04-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7035313
• 关键词: academic achievement; adolescence (12-20); agriculture worker; behavioral /social science research tag; career; clinical research; employment /unemployment; expectancy; family; focus groups; goal oriented behavior; human subject; interview; migrant; quality of life; seasons

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed pilot project focuses needed attention on the youth of migrant and seasonal farm worker families in America. This population and the families who support them remain largely hidden from our view, despite suffering from poverty, poor health and nutrition, unsafe working and living conditions, low job security, and constrained educational opportunities. It is likely that the children and youth in migrant or seasonal farm worker families face significant obstacles as they develop, attempt to assimilate into U.S. society, and make the transition to adulthood in America, yet surprisingly little is known about them. The proposed project will provide needed information on how the individual, familial, and contextual circumstances of these youth shape their aspirations, expectations and early adult outcomes with regard to educational attainment, labor force participation, and family formation. As important, if successful this pilot project will generate and refine a methodology that will anchor a proposal for a large-scale study of this important yet neglected group of youth. Guided by current theories of the assimilation patterns of second-generation youth, we propose a multi-method design featuring focus group surveys, key informant interviews, face-to-face structured surveys of youth, and administrative data analysis. The focus groups and key informant interviews will provide qualitative information on educational, career, and family issues, with emphasis on barriers to achieving aspirations in these respects. The qualitative data will inform the development of a protocol for a structured face-to-face survey focusing on these issues, to be administered to a representative sample of migrant and seasonal farm worker youth in a three-county agricultural-dependent region of south-central Pennsylvania. The proposed pilot study is expected to provide essential experience in sampling and interviewing this hard to- reach population, in preparation for a more comprehensive longitudinal study of educational, labor force, family formation and health outcomes of this at-risk group of youth.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的飞行员项目将需要关注美国的移民和季节性农场工人家庭的青年。尽管贫困，健康和营养不良，不安全的工作和生活条件，低工作保障以及受限制的教育机会，但这些人口和支持他们的家庭仍然在很大程度上隐藏了我们的视线。在移民或季节性农场工人家庭中，儿童和青少年在发展时会遇到重大障碍，试图吸收美国社会，并在美国成年过渡，但令人惊讶的是，他们对它们知之甚少。拟议的项目将提供有关这些年轻人的个人，家庭和背景环境如何塑造其愿望，期望和早期成人成年结果的所需信息。同样重要的是，如果成功的话，该试点项目将产生和完善一种方法，该方法将基础对这一重要但被忽视的青年群体进行大规模研究的建议。在当前关于第二代青年同化模式的理论的指导下，我们提出了一个多方法设计，其中包括焦点小组调查，主要线人访谈，对青年的面对面结构化调查以及行政数据分析。焦点小组和主要线人访谈将提供有关教育，职业和家庭问题的定性信息，重点是在这些方面实现愿望的障碍。定性数据将为针对这些问题进行结构化面对面调查的协议的制定提供信息，并将在宾夕法尼亚州中南部的三县农业依赖性地区进行代表的移民和季节性农场工人青年。预计拟议的试点研究将在对这种难以达到的人群进行取样和访谈中提供基本的经验，以准备对这一高风险青年群体的教育，劳动力，家庭形成和健康成果进行更全面的纵向研究。