Income Source, Consumption and Migration in Four Mexican Villages

这个项目涉及两名社会科学家，他们研究农村 墨西哥家庭使用移民工人的汇款， 我们 两名人类学家和一名经济学家将调查家庭 在墨西哥的米霍坎的四个村庄里。 使用 结合民族志，深入访谈技术， 家庭消费模式计量经济学调查 该项目将研究移民本身如何改变家庭价值观 消费的商品种类。 大多数关于移徙和消费的研究都假定， 有固定的经济需求或目标。 该项目的分析 移民如何改变消费的文化基础， 提供的信息将促进我们理解为什么 人们从墨西哥移民到美国。这种理解是 我们两国在经济上走得更近。

This project involves two social scientists studying how rural Mexican families use remittance funds from migrant workers in the US. Two anthropologists and an economist will survey households in four peasant villages in Michoacan, Mexico. Using a combination of ethnographic, in-depth interview techniques and econometric surveys of household consumption patterns, the project will study how migration itself changes household values about the sorts of goods consumed. Most studies of migration and consumption assume that migrants have fixed economic needs or targets. This project's analysis of how migration changes the cultural basis of consumption will provide information that will advance our understanding of why people migrate from Mexico to the US. This understanding is important as our two nations draw closer together economically.