The Negotiation of Legal Identity Among Salvadoran Immigrants in Los Angeles, California

加利福尼亚州洛杉矶萨尔瓦多移民合法身份的谈判

• 批准号: 9423023
• 负责人: Susan Coutin
• 金额: $ 8.4万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-06-15 至 1997-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9423023&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Negotiation; Legal; Identity; Among; Salvadoran

9423023 Coutin This research seeks to shed light on the ways in which illegal immigrants seek to shape the transnational forces that compel their movements. To do so, it investigates the ways in which Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles define and negotiate their legal identities in the United States. It builds on recent studies of immigration that have emphasized the global structural forces that drive immigration, in preference to models that emphasize individual choice. However, it challenges the assumption that immigrants are powerless subjects of such forces by concentrating on the Salvadoran immigrant efforts to use law to define and alter their status in society and reinterpret concepts of citizenship. Its investigation focuses on the legal strategies devised by Salvadoran immigrants to the United States since the late 1970s. If concentrates in particular on the change in focus from the status of refugee to that of immigrant. The research will consist of 18 months of fieldwork within the Los Angeles Salvadoran community, one of the largest and best-organized in the United States. It will involve work with two Salvadoran immigrant organizations, community organizations, individual Salvadoran immigrants, and observation of immigration proceedings. Analysis of the research data will improve our scientific understanding of the conceptions of the nation-state of individuals who have experienced transnational forces first hand. %%%% This research investigates the ways in which Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles define and negotiate their legal identities in the United States. It challenges the assumption that immigrants are powerless subjects of transnational forces that drive their migration by concentrating on the Salvadoran immigrant efforts to use law to define and alter their status in society and reinterpret concepts of citizenship. Its investigation focuses on the legal strategies devised by Salvadoran immigrants to the United States since the late 1970s. If concentrat es in particular on the change in focus from the status of refugee to that of immigrant. Fieldwork within the Los Angeles community will enlarge our knowledge of the role and behavior of immigrants in American democracy and shed light on the concepts of citizenship and nationhood devised by individuals who have experienced transnational forces first hand. ****

9423023 Coutin 这项研究旨在揭示非法移民如何塑造迫使其流动的跨国力量。 为此，它调查了洛杉矶的萨尔瓦多移民如何定义和协商他们在美国的合法身份。 它建立在最近的移民研究的基础上，这些研究强调推动移民的全球结构性力量，而不是强调个人选择的模型。 然而，它通过关注萨尔瓦多移民利用法律来定义和改变他们的社会地位并重新解释公民概念的努力，挑战了移民是这些力量的无能为力的主体的假设。 其调查重点是 20 世纪 70 年代末以来萨尔瓦多移民美国制定的法律策略。 尤其关注焦点从难民身份到移民身份的转变。 该研究将包括在洛杉矶萨尔瓦多社区进行为期 18 个月的实地考察，该社区是美国最大、组织最完善的社区之一。 它将涉及与两个萨尔瓦多移民组织、社区组织、萨尔瓦多移民个人的合作以及对移民程序的观察。 对研究数据的分析将提高我们对亲身经历过跨国力量的个人的民族国家概念的科学理解。 %%%% 这项研究调查了洛杉矶的萨尔瓦多移民如何定义和协商他们在美国的合法身份。 它挑战了移民是跨国力量的无能为力的主体这一假设，通过关注萨尔瓦多移民利用法律来定义和改变他们的社会地位并重新解释公民概念的努力，这些跨国力量推动了他们的移民。 其调查重点是 20 世纪 70 年代末以来萨尔瓦多移民美国制定的法律策略。 特别关注焦点从难民身份到移民身份的转变。 洛杉矶社区内的实地考察将扩大我们对移民在美国民主中的作用和行为的了解，并阐明那些亲身经历过跨国力量的个人所设计的公民身份和国家概念。 ****