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

该奖项支持来自南卫理公会大学的一位文化人类学家的论文研究。该项目旨在研究墨西哥尤卡坦半岛的两个玛雅印第安农民社区，以评估男性在雇佣劳动期间向外迁移对社区中女性地位的影响。采用参与观察和密集访谈的民族志方法，以及对两个村庄的家庭进行随机普查，一个村庄有大量的男性劳动力向外迁移，另一个村庄的人口迁移较少，学生将评估妇女和家庭的地位。这项研究很重要，因为农村人口为应对雇佣劳动机会而迁移是发展中国家的一个主要现象。这个项目将促进我们了解这种移徙对留守家庭的影响，以及在丈夫不在的情况下，妇女管理家庭的日常责任的暂时增加如何转化（或不转化）为其社会和经济地位的相对重大变化。妇女的地位已被证明是影响儿童福利的一个主要因素，因此，我们对妇女地位的原因了解的增加对家庭和家庭有直接的影响。

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.