Doctoral Dissertation Research: Tourists, Immigrants, and Family Units - Analysis of Tourism Development and Migration Patterns in and from the Bays of Huatulco, Mexico

博士论文研究：游客、移民和家庭单位 - 墨西哥瓦图尔科湾的旅游发展和移民模式分析

• 批准号: 0209984
• 负责人: Ben Blount
• 金额: $ 0.65万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-01 至 2003-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0209984&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Tourists; Immigrants

Tourism is a major industry in the world, and poorer countries have invested resources in developing tourist attractions to showcase their natural environment to wealthy tourists. This dissertation research proposal by a cultural anthropology student investigates the impact of one such project in Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico, on the lives of local residents. The study will investigate three broad questions: how the direction of public resources to the tourist infrastructure affects local residents' perceptions of the resources available to them; how the redirection of resources towards tourism development and the growing tourist presence has changed the actual and expected standard of living for local residents; and how emigration is perceived by local residents as a strategy to accommodate expectations of higher living standards that may have been thwarted by tourism development. The methods include participant observation, semi-structured interviews, the analysis of social networks, and the collection of household histories. Aside from contributing to the education of a young social scientists, this research will advance our understanding of the sources of Mexican migration to the US, and the social as well as economic costs and benefits of tourism development.

旅游业是世界上的一个主要产业，较贫穷的国家投入资源开发旅游景点，向富裕的游客展示其自然环境。本论文的研究建议，由一个文化人类学的学生调查的影响，这样的项目在华图尔科，瓦哈卡，墨西哥，对当地居民的生活。这项研究将调查三个广泛的问题：公共资源流向旅游基础设施如何影响当地居民对他们所能获得的资源的看法;资源流向旅游业发展和游客人数的增加如何改变了当地居民的实际和预期生活水平;以及当地居民如何将移民视为一种策略，以满足可能因旅游业发展而受挫的更高生活水平的期望。 研究方法包括参与式观察、半结构式访谈、社交网络分析和家庭历史收集。除了对年轻社会科学家的教育做出贡献外，这项研究还将促进我们对墨西哥移民到美国的来源以及旅游业发展的社会和经济成本和效益的理解。