Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Emigrant-Remittances and Domestic Adjustment in an Era of Globalization

该项目探讨汇款的政治原因和影响，即移民汇回发展中国家的家庭成员的钱。 该项目收集和使用从墨西哥家庭随机抽样的调查数据和与墨西哥决策者进行的访谈，以调查三个核心问题：（1）当被迫面对经济冲击时，没有可靠的社会福利计划的家庭更有可能收到汇款？(2)在控制相关因素的情况下，接受汇款的家庭是否比不接受汇款的家庭对不稳定的市场导向政策的抵抗力更低？(3)发展中国家政府促进移民和吸引汇款的努力是否被政策制定者作为一项事实上的社会政策来推行，其目的是限制他们在社会福利计划上花费大量资金的能力所带来的政治后果？这项研究有助于政治学辩论的影响和市场改革和全球化在发展中国家的可行性，在这一文献中，第一次分析的社会保险作用发挥的移民汇款。 此外，这一提议为人类学家、经济学家和社会学家关于移民汇款在发展中国家的作用的辩论提供了一个新的宏观视角。 该研究项目也具有广泛的社会影响。 虽然移民是一种双边现象，只有在移民输出国和移民接收国政府共同努力时才能得到最有效的管理，但发达国家的决策者通常通过移民控制政策单方面处理移民问题。 这项研究为边境两侧的政策专家提供了一个新的视角，说明移民如何为发展中国家的家庭和政治家服务。 通过了解这些动态，可以增加双边对话的机会，并有可能找到更有效的双边解决办法。这种更广泛的社会影响是通过以下方式产生的：向墨西哥和美国政策专家传播本研究的数据和调查结果;在进行实地研究的过程中，墨西哥和美国学者之间建立了新的关系;墨西哥研究人员、墨西哥决策者、和墨西哥移民家庭到美国移民辩论通过出版物，从这个领域的项目结果。

This project addresses the political causes and effects of remittances, the money emigrants send back to their family members in developing countries. The project collects and uses survey data from random samples of Mexican households and interviews conducted with Mexican policymakers to investigate three central questions: (1) When forced to confront an economic shock, are households without reliable access to social welfare programs more likely to receive remittances? (2) Are remittance-receiving households less resistant to destabilizing market-oriented policies than non-recipients, controlling for relevant factors? (3) Are the efforts of developing country governments to facilitate emigration and attract remittances pursued as a de facto social policy, implemented by policymakers with the aim of limiting political fallout from constraints on their ability to spend large amounts of money on social welfare programs? This study contributes to political science debates about the impact and feasibility of market reform and globalization in developing countries by, for the first time in this literature, analyzing the social insurance role played by migrant-remittances. Furthermore, this proposal provides a novel macro-level perspective to debates among anthropologists, economists, and sociologists about the functions of migrant-remittances in developing countries. This research project also has broader social impacts. Although migration is a bilateral phenomenon that is most effectively managed when migrant-sending and migrant-receiving governments work together, policymakers in the developed world have generally dealt with migration issues unilaterally via immigration control policies. This study provides policy experts on both sides of the border a new perspective about how emigration serves households and politicians in developing countries. By understanding these dynamics, opportunities for bilateral dialogues can be enhanced and more effective bilateral solutions become possible. This broader social impacts occur through: the dissemination of this study's data and findings to Mexican and US policy experts; the establishment of new relationships between Mexican and US scholars in the process of conducting field research; the integration of the marginalized perspectives and insights of Mexican researchers, Mexican policy-makers, and Mexican emigrant-households into the US immigration debate via publications that result from this field project.