RUI: From Exclusion to Belonging: Citizen-State Relations Within the Salvadoran Diaspora

RUI：从排斥到归属：萨尔瓦多侨民内部的公民与国家关系

• 批准号: 0001890
• 负责人: Susan Coutin
• 金额: $ 20.84万
• 依托单位: California State L A University Auxiliary Services Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-15 至 2001-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0001890&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Exclusion; Belonging; Citizen; State

The proposed research studies Salvadoran immigrants' relationships to the United States and El Salvador from the 1980s to the present. Questions examined include: 1. How unauthorized migrants survive disenfranchisement; 2. Why receiving states sometimes legalize undocumented aliens; and 3. Why sending states sometimes encourage expatriate citizens to remain distant but loyal. To address these questions, the proposed research will examine the rationales for these policy changes, the ways that accounts of policy changes position migrants vis a vis each nation, and the effects of policy changes on migrants themselves.Research will be conducted in three sites: Los Angeles, which is home to approximately half of the U.S. Salvadoran population; Washington, D.C., where Salvadoran activists meet with U.S. immigration policymakers; and San Salvador, the Salvadoran capital, where Salvadoran officials, politicians and activists devise policies regarding expatriate Salvadorans. Research will consist of interviews with U.S. and Salvadoran policymakers, activists who have attempted to influence policymakers, and the Salvadoran immigrants who are the targets of policies. Between 100-150 individuals will be interviewed. Interviews will elicit interviewees' accounts of policy changes, focusing on explanations for policy shifts, points of controversy, the strategies and alliances that made changes possible, the limitations of current policies, and the possible effects of policy changes on the United States, El Salvador, and migrants themselves. Analyzing these accounts will reveal how and whether unauthorized migrants' strategies for surviving disenfranchisement can in turn lead to some form of enfranchisement in both their countries of origin and of residence.

拟议的研究研究了萨尔瓦多移民从20世纪80年代到现在与美国和萨尔瓦多的关系。测试的问题包括：1。非法移民如何在被剥夺公民权的情况下生存；2. 为什么接收国有时会将无证外国人合法化；和3。为什么派遣国有时鼓励外籍公民保持距离，但保持忠诚。为了解决这些问题，拟议的研究将审查这些政策变化的基本原理，对政策变化的解释如何使移民相对于每个国家，以及政策变化对移民本身的影响。研究将在三个地点进行：洛杉矶，这里居住着大约一半的美国萨尔瓦多人；在华盛顿特区，萨尔瓦多活动人士与美国移民政策制定者会面；以及萨尔瓦多的首都圣萨尔瓦多，萨尔瓦多的官员、政治家和活动人士在这里制定有关外籍萨尔瓦多人的政策。研究将包括采访美国和萨尔瓦多的政策制定者，试图影响政策制定者的活动家，以及作为政策目标的萨尔瓦多移民。将采访100-150人。访谈将引出受访者对政策变化的描述，重点是对政策变化的解释、争议点、使变化成为可能的战略和联盟、当前政策的局限性，以及政策变化对美国、萨尔瓦多和移民本身可能产生的影响。分析这些描述将揭示未经授权的移民在被剥夺公民权的情况下生存的策略如何以及是否会反过来导致他们在原籍国和居住国获得某种形式的公民权。