The Origin and Development of Drug Use Among Transnational Mexican Farmworkers

墨西哥跨国农场工人吸毒的起源和发展

• 批准号: 7680216
• 负责人: Victor Q Garcia
• 金额: $ 19.26万
• 依托单位: IUP RESEARCH INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7680216
• 关键词: Address; Agaricales; Age; Agriculture; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; Amphetamines; Attention; Attitude; Behavior; Characteristics; Chronic; Cocaine; Communities; Consumption; Country; County; Data; Development; Drug usage; Ecology; Educational Status; Employment; Ethnography; Family; Family history of; Farming environment; Focus Groups; Fostering; Genealogy; Group Identifications; Health Personnel; Health Policy; Home environment; Housing; Individual; Industry; Infiltration; Institution; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Life; Living Arrangement; Location; Marijuana; Marital Status; Mexican; Mexico; Modeling; Municipalities; Nomads; Pathway Analysis; Pattern; Peer Group; Peer Pressure; Pennsylvania; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Policies; Population; Predisposing Factor; Prevention program; Preventive Intervention; Process; Public Health; Recommendation; Recording of previous events; Recreation; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Role; Rural; Side; Site; Social Environment; Social Interaction; Social Network; Social isolation; Substance abuse problem; United States; Work; Workplace; alcohol exposure; base; design; deviant; drug abuse prevention; ethnographic method; farm worker; field study; male; migration; programs; social; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Drug use among transnational Mexican migrants, predominantly solo males, is drawing public concern in many agricultural communities across the country. The current knowledge attributes the problem primarily to situational factors associated with living and working in US farming regions, but fails to consider other community factors in the United States (i.e., drug availability and the presence of a drug subculture in local communities) and Mexico (i.e., drug availability and the presence of a drug subculture) as well as individual factors (i.e., background characteristics and predisposing factors). The roles of these community and individual factors are unclear, as are the relationships between these factors and their specific connections to drug use. We propose a bi-national social ecology model of drug use comprised of community, individual, and other factors in the United States and Mexico to understand the manner in which these factors contribute to drug use among transnational migrants. This model has not been elaborated or verified because few studies have been conducted in both the U.S. agricultural work sites and in migrant home communities in rural Mexico, and because of the lack of coordinated bi-national drug use studies that consider factors in both countries. In order to substantiate and elaborate on the key factors in the social ecology model, the contributing factors in both the United States and Mexico will be explored through four progressive, ethnographic field studies conducted over a three-year period. The field studies will be conducted in Southern Chester County, a major mushroom producing region of southeastern Pennsylvania, and in three municipalities in Guanajuato, Mexico, location of the home communities of the Mexican migrants working in Pennsylvania. This approach is essential to gaining access to the migrant population and to describing the complexity of factors contributing to drug use among the migrants. In each of the four field studies, the researchers will reside on site and gather qualitative data using observations, ethnographic interviews, informal interviews, focus groups, social network analysis, and genealogies. The findings will contribute to a comprehensive understanding of drug use among migrant farmworkers and to the design of bi-national substance abuse intervention and prevention programs as called for in public health policies. These programs will address the causes of substance abuse on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

描述（由申请人提供）：跨国墨西哥移民（主要是单身男性）在全国许多农业社区中吸引了公众关注。当前的知识主要将问题归因于与在美国农业地区生活和工作相关的情况因素，但未能考虑美国的其他社区因素（即药物的可用性和当地社区中的药物亚文化存在）和墨西哥（即药物的可用性和药物的可用性，是药物亚文化的存在和存在药物亚文化）以及个人因素（即背景特征），以及背景因素和precrepsistions和predisistions和predissives and isspsistions and isspsistions and isspsistions and isspistions。这些社区和个人因素的作用尚不清楚，这些因素与它们与吸毒的特定联系之间的关系也尚不清楚。我们提出了一种由美国和墨西哥的社区，个人和其他因素组成的毒品使用模型，以了解这些因素在跨国移民中促进毒品使用的方式。该模型尚未得到详细或验证，因为在美国农业工作地点和墨西哥农村地区的移民家庭社区都没有进行研究，并且由于缺乏协调的两国药物使用研究，这些研究考虑了两国的因素。为了证实和详细说明社会生态模型中的关键因素，将通过在三年内进行的四项进行性民族志研究进行探讨，美国和墨西哥的促成因素将得到探讨。现场研究将在切斯特县南部进行，这是宾夕法尼亚州东南部的主要蘑菇生产地区，在墨西哥瓜纳华托的三个市政当局，是宾夕法尼亚州工作的墨西哥移民社区的所在地。这种方法对于获得移民人口的机会以及描述有助于移民毒品使用的因素的复杂性至关重要。在四个现场研究中的每一个中，研究人员将居住在现场，并使用观察结果，人种学访谈，非正式访谈，焦点小组，社交网络分析和家谱来收集定性数据。这些发现将有助于对移民农民工的毒品使用以及在公共卫生政策中要求的双国药物滥用干预和预防计划的设计。这些计划将解决美墨边境两侧滥用药物的原因。

项目成果

Labor Migration, Drug Trafficking Organizations, and Drug Use: Major Challenges for Transnational Communities in Mexico.

劳工移民、贩毒组织和吸毒：墨西哥跨国社区面临的主要挑战。

• 发表时间: 2009
• 期刊: Urban anthropology and studies of cultural systems and world economic development
• 作者: García,Víctor;González,Laura
• 通讯作者: González,Laura