Doctoral Dissertation Research: Latino (Im)migration to the Upper South

博士论文研究：拉丁裔（Im）移民到上南部

• 批准号: 0302502
• 负责人: Richard Schein
• 金额: $ 0.86万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-04-01 至 2005-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0302502&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Latino; Im

This research analyzes a new chapter in understandings of race and ethnicity in the US South, through an examination of Hispanic migration to Nashville, Tennessee, and Lexington, Kentucky. These are two mid-size southern cities that have experienced rapid Hispanic population increases in the last decade and dramatic changes in the local labor force's racial and ethnic composition. Although many US regions are experiencing Hispanic migration, this growth has particularly strong implications in the US South, where historically, a black-white racial binary has organized social, economic, and political interactions and large-scale voluntary in-migration has not been common. To investigate these implications, this study proceeds through two phases that together provide a broad overview of Hispanic migration to each city and more detailed case studies of this migration. First, it examines how Hispanic migration to Lexington and Nashville has developed and how Hispanics are entering local labor markets through sectors such as construction and agriculture. These initial research questions will be answered through content analyses of each city's major newspapers and public documents on Hispanic communities, analyses of recent census data, and interviews with spokespersons of local immigrant service providers. Second, the research shifts scales to local worksites that have recently become dependent on Hispanic labor. In case studies of these worksites, it addresses how the growing number of Hispanics at Lexington and Nashville worksites is affecting workplace practices and social relations. This research question will be addressed through participant observation and interviews with Hispanic workers and their non-Hispanic co-workers and supervisors concerning daily workplace practices and social interactions. The project will use data from these interviews to investigate how ethnicity and race differentiate workplace experiences for workers and supervisors and what workplace changes the increase in Hispanic labor has necessitated. Workplace comparisons will be made both within and between Nashville and Lexington, to assess the impacts of factors, such as worksite gender and ethnic integration and each city's broader management of Hispanic migration, on social interactions between and among workers and supervisors.This study will make three theoretical contributions to geographical scholarship through these case studies. First, in a national context, it will provide a point of comparison for broader immigration research organized in a bi-coastal pattern that privileges large gateway cities and, thus, will reflect the changing geographies of Hispanic migration to and within the US. Second, the study will examine changes in racial identities and race relations within the US South outside the racial dualism that has long dominated such studies and at the very onset of Hispanic migration to the region. Finally, through detailed case studies of racial and ethnic interactions at Lexington and Nashville workplaces, the research will add a qualitative richness to studies of immigration to the US upper South, a part of the United States off the maps of most immigration studies but clearly visible to more and more Hispanic men and women. In addition to these theoretical contributions, this research will have broader societal impacts, particularly within Kentucky and Tennessee. It has created opportunities for collaborations, such as joint survey initiatives and database sharing, with various immigrant-service organizations. These and other partnerships will allow much broader dissemination of results, through avenues including public presentations and progress reports within each city. In this way, the Hispanic communities on which the research is based and the groups that work with them will benefit from the research in which they participated. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.

本研究分析了一个新的篇章，在美国南部的种族和民族的理解，通过检查西班牙裔移民到纳什维尔，田纳西州和列克星敦，肯塔基州。 这是两个中等规模的南部城市，在过去十年中，西班牙裔人口迅速增加，当地劳动力的种族和民族构成发生了巨大变化。 虽然美国许多地区正在经历西班牙裔移民，但这种增长在美国南部具有特别强烈的影响，在那里，历史上，黑人和白人的二元种族组织了社会，经济和政治互动，大规模的自愿移民并不常见。 为了研究这些影响，本研究通过两个阶段进行，共同提供了一个广泛的概述西班牙裔移民到每个城市和更详细的案例研究，这种迁移。 首先，它考察了西班牙裔移民到列克星敦和纳什维尔的发展情况，以及西班牙裔如何通过建筑和农业等部门进入当地劳动力市场。 这些初步的研究问题将通过对每个城市的主要报纸和西班牙裔社区的公共文件的内容分析，对最近的人口普查数据的分析，以及对当地移民服务提供者发言人的采访来回答。 其次，这项研究将规模转移到最近依赖西班牙裔劳动力的当地工作场所。 在这些工作场所的案例研究中，它解决了越来越多的西班牙裔在列克星敦和纳什维尔工作场所是如何影响工作场所的做法和社会关系。 这个研究问题将通过参与者的观察和采访西班牙裔工人和他们的非西班牙裔同事和主管有关日常工作场所的做法和社会交往来解决。 该项目将使用这些访谈的数据来调查种族和种族如何区分工人和主管的工作场所体验，以及西班牙裔劳动力的增加需要什么样的工作场所变化。 工作场所的比较将在内部和之间的纳什维尔和列克星敦，以评估因素的影响，如工作场所的性别和种族融合和每个城市的更广泛的管理西班牙裔移民，对社会之间的互动和工人和supervisors.This研究将通过这些案例studys.This的理论贡献地理奖学金。 首先，在全国范围内，它将提供一个比较点，为更广泛的移民研究组织在一个双沿海模式，特权的大型门户城市，因此，将反映不断变化的地理位置的西班牙裔移民到美国和美国境内。 第二，这项研究将探讨种族身份和种族关系的变化在美国南部以外的种族二元论，长期以来一直主导着这样的研究，并在西班牙裔移民到该地区的开始。 最后，通过详细的种族和民族互动的案例研究，在列克星敦和纳什维尔的工作场所，研究将增加一个定性的丰富性移民到美国上南部，美国的一部分，大多数移民研究的地图，但清楚地看到越来越多的西班牙裔男性和女性的研究。 除了这些理论贡献，这项研究将产生更广泛的社会影响，特别是在肯塔基州和田纳西州。 它创造了与各种移民服务组织合作的机会，例如联合调查倡议和数据库共享。 通过这些伙伴关系和其他伙伴关系，将能够通过在每个城市内公开介绍和进度报告等途径，更广泛地传播成果。 通过这种方式，研究所基于的西班牙裔社区以及与他们合作的团体将从他们参与的研究中受益。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立的研究生涯。