Dissertation Research: Production of National Identity in Export-Oriented Factories in Sri Lanka

该项目支持一名文化系学生的论文研究 芝加哥大学的人类学教授。 研究将在斯里兰卡进行。 在那里，学生将研究两个相对较新的出口导向型服装厂， 雇用以女性为主的劳动力。 使用民族志技术， 访谈和参与观察以及对地方和区域档案的研究， 学生将研究如何在这些工厂的工作经验改变了 妇女对自己作为民族和国家公民的观念。 妇女 传统上，传统文化价值观的仓库，学生假设 在工厂工作的人，他们的目标是改变工人的身份， 更多地与民族国家联系，而不是与当地群体联系，将产生冲突， 改变妇女和她们的家庭。 这项研究很重要，因为全球市场变化的过程 把外国人拥有或控制的工作场所带到了世界上许多传统的地方。 了解在这些跨国网站的工作经验如何影响 女工，以及她们的家庭，将帮助我们理解 并应对全球市场扩张带来的压力和紧张局势。

This project supports the dissertation research of a student of cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago. The research will take place in Sri Lanka where the student will study two relatively new export-oriented garment factories which hire a predominantly female labor force. Using ethnographic techniques of in-depth interviews and participant observation as well as studies of local and regional archives, the student will examine how the experience of work in these factories changes the women's notions of themselves as people and citizens of the nation. Women are traditionally the store-house of traditional cultural values, and the student hypothesizes that work in the factories, which explicitly aim to change their worker's identities to relate more to the national state and less to their local group, will produce conflict and change in the women and their families. This research is important because the process of global market change has brought foreign-owned or dominated work-places to many traditional parts of the world. Understanding how the experience of work in these trans-national sites affects the women workers, and through them their households and families, will help us understand and deal with the stresses and tensions that the expansion of the global market produces.