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

[4233023]考廷这项研究试图揭示非法移民如何试图塑造强迫他们行动的跨国力量。为了做到这一点，它调查了洛杉矶的萨尔瓦多移民如何定义和谈判他们在美国的法律身份。它建立在最近的移民研究的基础上，这些研究强调了推动移民的全球结构性力量，而不是强调个人选择的模型。但是，它通过集中讨论萨尔瓦多移民利用法律界定和改变其社会地位和重新解释公民概念的努力，挑战了移民是这种力量无能为力的主体的假设。它的调查重点是萨尔瓦多移民自20世纪70年代末以来制定的法律策略。它特别集中于从难民地位到移民地位的焦点变化。这项研究将包括在洛杉矶萨尔瓦多人社区进行18个月的实地考察，该社区是美国最大和组织最好的社区之一。它将涉及与两个萨尔瓦多移民组织、社区组织、萨尔瓦多移民个人以及观察移民程序的工作。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。%%%%这项研究调查了萨尔瓦多移民在洛杉矶定义和谈判他们在美国的法律身份的方式。它通过集中讨论萨尔瓦多移民利用法律界定和改变其社会地位和重新解释公民概念的努力，挑战了移民是跨国力量驱使其移徙的无力主体的假设。它的调查重点是萨尔瓦多移民自20世纪70年代末以来制定的法律策略。它特别关注焦点从难民地位到移民地位的变化。在洛杉矶社区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认识，并阐明由亲身经历过跨国力量的个人设计的公民身份和国家概念。＊＊＊＊

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. ****