Doctoral Dissertation Research: Temporary Male Outmigration and Changing Gender Roles in Yucatan, Mexico

博士论文研究：墨西哥尤卡坦半岛的男性暂时外迁和性别角色变化

• 批准号: 9616020
• 负责人: Victoria Lockwood
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Southern Methodist University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-05-01 至 1998-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9616020&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Temporary; Male

This award supports the dissertation research of a cultural anthropologist from Southern Methodist University. The project is to study two Mayan Indian peasant communities in Yucatan, Mexico to assess the impact of men's out-migration for periods of wage labor on women's status in the communities. Using ethnographic methods of participant observation and intensive interviews as well as a random census of households in two villages, one with extensive male laborer out-migration and the other with insignificant migration, the student will assess the status of women and of households. This research is important because the migratory movement of rural people in response to wage labor opportunities is a major phenomenon in the developing world. this project will advance our understanding of the effects of such migration on the households left behind, and how the temporary increase in women's daily responsibilities to administer their households in their husbands' absence translates (or does not translate) into relatively significant changes in their social and economic status. Women's' status has been shown to be a major factor affecting the welfare of children, so increases in our understanding of the causes of women's status has direct implications for households and families.

该奖项支持南卫理公会大学文化人类学家的论文研究。 该项目将研究墨西哥尤卡坦半岛的两个玛雅印第安农民社区，以评估男子外出打工对社区妇女地位的影响。 学生将使用参与观察和深入访谈的人种学方法，以及对两个村庄的家庭进行随机普查，一个村庄有大量男性劳动力向外迁移，另一个村庄的迁移不明显，学生将评估妇女和家庭的地位。 这项研究之所以重要，是因为农村人口为获得工资劳动机会而进行的迁移是发展中国家的一个主要现象。 这个项目将使我们更深入地了解这种迁移对留守家庭的影响，以及妇女在丈夫不在时临时增加的日常家务责任如何转化（或不转化）为她们的社会和经济地位的相对重大变化。 妇女地位已被证明是影响儿童福利的一个主要因素，因此，我们对妇女地位原因的了解的增加对家庭和家庭有直接影响。