Dissertation Research: Before the Country Ceases to Exist: Mobilizing Against Migration in El Salvador

论文研究：在国家不复存在之前：动员萨尔瓦多反对移民

• 批准号: 0819580
• 负责人: Arturo Escobar
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-12-01 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0819580&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Before; Country; Ceases

Graduate student Joseph L. Wiltberger, under the supervision of Dr. Arturo Escobar, will undertake research on an emerging trend in countries with high rates of out migration. This trend is the rise of groups that collectively work toward constructing viable alternatives to migration and alternative forms of development, despite state-led strategies to facilitate migration, remittances, and other forms of development.Wiltberger will examine the situation in El Salvador as a test case. His field research will be multi-sited. Research will be conducted in both El Salvador and the United States. Data collection will focus on a region in northern El Salvador with a high rate of emigration and on the region's substantial migrant population in the Washington, D. C., area. A mix of qualitative research methods will be employed, including archival research, semi-structured interviews with migrants and community organizers, community history interviews, life trajectory intereviews, and participant observation in organizations trying to provide alternatives to migration. Wiltberger will collaborate with organizations in El Salvador and Salvadoran-led organizations in the United States that are responding to the question of immigration, drawing on contacts and experience from prior fieldwork in northern El Salvador. This research is important because it will provide critical insight into the contemporary immigration situation and thus will make a contribution to the fields of migration and development studies, as well as to improving immigration policy and regulation. The research will give a unique transnational and place-of-origin perspective on the practice and politics of migration. The research also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.

研究生约瑟夫L.在阿图罗·埃斯科瓦尔博士的监督下，威尔特伯格将对人口外流率高的国家的一种新趋势进行研究。这一趋势是，尽管国家主导的战略促进了移民、汇款和其他形式的发展，但集体努力构建可行的移民替代方案和替代发展形式的群体正在崛起。威尔特伯格将以萨尔瓦多的情况为例进行研究。他的实地研究将是多地点的。研究将在萨尔瓦多和美国进行。数据收集的重点将是萨尔瓦多北方一个移民率高的地区，以及该地区在华盛顿的大量移民人口。C.的方法， 区 将采用定性研究方法的组合，包括档案研究，与移民和社区组织者的半结构化访谈，社区历史访谈，生活轨迹intereviews，以及在试图提供移民替代方案的组织中的参与者观察。 威尔特伯格将与萨尔瓦多的组织和萨尔瓦多领导的美国组织合作，这些组织正在应对移民问题，并利用以前在萨尔瓦多北方实地工作的联系和经验。这项研究很重要，因为它将提供对当代移民状况的重要见解，从而将对移徙与发展研究领域以及改进移民政策和条例作出贡献。这项研究将提供一个独特的跨国和原籍地的角度对移徙的做法和政治。这项研究也将有助于社会科学家的教育。