Impact of Male Wage Labor Migration on Population in Haiti

这个项目涉及一位来自佛罗里达大学人类学学生的论文研究。 有待检验的假设是，来自加勒比海岛屿海地的男性劳动力移民导致家乡社区的女性生育率提高，因为男性的汇款对贫困妇女抚养子女很重要。 初步研究表明，这种关系在广泛的调查数据。 学生将在海地的两个村庄学习，其中一个村庄有许多缺席的男子在其他地方工作，另一个村庄的缺席男子相对较少。 对那些村庄的住户个人进行广泛调查，将提供经济、生殖、营养和社会数据，以检验这一假设。 这项研究很重要，因为加勒比地区长期以来一直是美洲国家移民劳动力的储备地。 海地尤其是该区域最贫穷的国家，一段时间以来一直是男性向外移徙的模式。这个案例研究的贡献将是提供有关人类行为的细粒度的信息，民族志擅长的上下文。 更好地了解移徙工人汇款对留守妇女生育成功的影响，对于试图设计提高海地人民生活条件方案的发展规划者来说，将是很有价值的。

This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of Florida. The hypothesis to be tested is that male labor emigration from the Caribbean Island of Haiti leads to increased female fertility in the home communities, because the remittances available from males are important to poor women in raising their children. Preliminary studies have shown this relationship in extensive survey data. The student will study in two villages of Haiti, one in which there are many absent men working elsewhere and another with relatively few absent men. Extensive surveys of individuals in households in the villages will provide economic, reproductive, nutritional and social data to test the hypothesis. This research is important because the Caribbean has long been a reservoir of migrant labor for the countries of the Americas. Haiti in particular has been the poorest country of the region, and has evidenced a pattern of male out migration for some time. The contribution of this case study will be to provide the fine-grained information about human behavior in context that ethnography excels in. Improved understanding of the impact of migrant laborer remittances on the reproductive success of the women left behind will be valuable for development planners attempting to design programs to raise the living conditions of the Haitian people.