Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Comparison of the Gendered Consequences of Migration in Two Regions of Indonesia

9406597个劳森家庭经常从一个居住地迁移到另一个居住地，以寻找更好的就业机会，但对审查男女在家庭中的不同角色如何影响他们在迁移前的期望和迁移后的经历的关注相对较少。特别令人关切的是，男女不同的家庭角色和责任影响了他们在劳动力市场的参与，影响了他们的空间流动和目的地的选择，并影响了他们搬家后的生活和家庭关系。这一博士论文研究项目将比较印度尼西亚两个不同地区的家庭内部和劳动力市场内与性别相关的移民问题。研究区域既包括半城市地区，也包括农村地区。在对每个研究地区进行长期访问期间，将对妇女和男子进行深入访谈，并收集和分析人种学数据，以获得关于收入水平、相对分配的时间以及搬迁前后的其他变量的信息。这些具体地点的数据将参照人口普查和独立收集的村级数据进行分析，以确保当地样本代表更广泛的人口。在进行这项工作期间，这名博士生将与雅加达和乌江·万隆的印度尼西亚大学的研究人员合作。该项目将做出一些重要贡献。这些比较案例研究将使人们对印度尼西亚部分地区的社会和经济变化有新的了解，这些地区近几十年来经历了大量的移民。由于这些研究的结构非常谨慎，该项目将有助于更全面地了解发展中国家低收入居民移徙经历中基于性别的差异。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立研究生涯。

9406597 LAWSON Households frequently migrate from one residential location to another in search of better employment opportunities, but relatively little attention has been given to examining the ways that the different roles of women and men in households affect their expectations before they migrate and their experiences after they migrate. Of particular concern are the ways that different household roles and responsibilities for women and men impinge upon their participation in the labor market, influence their spatial mobility and their choice of destinations, and affect their lives and household relationships after they have moved. This doctoral dissertation research project will compare gender-related facets of migration within households and within labor markets in two different parts of Indonesia. The study areas include both semi-urban and rural areas. During lengthy visits to each study area, in-depth interviews will be conducted with both women and men and ethnographic data will be collected and analyzed in order to obtain information about income levels, relative allocations of time, and other variables before and after moves. These site-specific data will be analyzed with reference to census and independently gathered village-level data to ensure that the local samples are representative of broader populations. During the conduct of this work, the doctoral student will collaborate with researchers at Indonesian universities in Jakarta and Ujang Pandung. This project will make a number of important contributions. The comparative case studies will shed new light on the dynamics of social and economic change in parts of Indonesia that have experienced significant rates of in-migration in recent decades. Because of the careful way in which the studies are structured, the project will contribute to more general understandings of gender-based differences in the migration experience of lower- income residents in developing nations. As a doc toral dissertation research improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.