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

9406597 LAWSON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，但相对较少注意审查男女在家庭中的不同角色如何影响他们迁移前的期望和迁移后的经历。特别令人关切的是，妇女和男子的不同家庭角色和责任影响到他们参与劳动力市场，影响到他们的空间流动性和目的地选择，并影响到他们搬家后的生活和家庭关系。这个博士论文研究项目将比较印度尼西亚两个不同地区家庭内和劳动力市场内移民的性别相关方面。研究区域包括半城市和农村地区。在对每个研究区域的长时间访问期间，将对女性和男性进行深入访谈，并收集和分析人种学数据，以获得有关移居前后的收入水平、相对时间分配和其他变量的信息。这些特定地点的数据将参照人口普查和独立收集的村一级数据进行分析，以确保当地样本能够代表更广泛的人口。在进行这项工作期间，博士生将与印度尼西亚雅加达和乌江潘东大学的研究人员合作。这个项目将做出许多重要贡献。比较案例研究将为最近几十年来经历了大量移民的印度尼西亚部分地区的社会和经济变化的动态提供新的视角。由于这些研究的结构是谨慎的，该项目将有助于更普遍地了解发展中国家低收入居民迁移经验中基于性别的差异。作为博士论文研究进步奖，该奖项还将为有前途的学生建立强大的独立研究生涯提供支持。

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.