Doctoral Dissertation Research: Understanding (Indian) Techno-mirgration: Experiences and Structural Conditions

博士论文研究：理解（印度）技术移民：经验和结构条件

• 批准号: 0848540
• 负责人: Kim Fortun
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0848540&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Understanding; Indian

This dissertation research, supported by the Science, Technology & Society program at NSF and the MPS directorate under the Math/Physical Sciences & Society Dear Colleague Letter initiative, focuses on technomigration. Technomigration is the movement of a group of technologically educated, highly skilled people; this project looks at technomigration between India and the United States. It will document and analyze the experiences and perceptions of technomigrants and the structural conditions that shape the mobility, and the ability to be highly mobile, for Indian technomigrants. The goals of this study are to understand: (a) global flows of technoscientific labor and how it is valued across diverse physical and social spaces, and (b) the ways in which Indian technomigrants understand and value their own mobility. Ethnographic engagement with Indian technomigrants (in the U.S. and in India) will be used to trace their educational and career trajectories, and to understand the interplay between the experiential and structural dimensions of technomigration. Participant observation at various seminars and conferences, and policy analysis of documents will support the ethnographic analysis. This study will draw on and contribute to literatures in the fields of Science and Technology Studies and Cultural Anthropology. It will add to the empirical record on Indian technomigration, analyze the role of technoscience as an enabler of mobility and diaspora-formation, and link theories of value to contemporary theories of globalization. The analysis resulting from this study can potentially inform national and global immigration policies with respect to high-tech labor. A focus on the subjective experiences of Indian immigrants will also give voice to their concerns.

本论文的研究，在NSF和MPS董事会的数学/物理科学学会亲爱的同事信倡议下的科学，技术社会计划的支持下，侧重于technomigration。 技术移民是一群受过技术教育的高技能人员的流动;本项目着眼于印度和美国之间的技术移民。它将记录和分析技术移民的经验和看法，以及形成流动性的结构条件，以及印度技术移民高度移动的能力。本研究的目标是了解：（a）技术科学劳动力的全球流动以及它在不同的物理和社会空间中的价值，以及（B）印度技术移民理解和重视自己的流动性的方式。 与印度技术移民（在美国和印度）的民族志参与将被用来追踪他们的教育和职业轨迹，并了解技术移民的经验和结构维度之间的相互作用。参与者在各种研讨会和会议上的观察以及对文件的政策分析将支持人种志分析。本研究将借鉴并贡献于科学技术研究和文化人类学领域的文献。它将增加印度技术移民的经验记录，分析技术科学作为流动性和散居形成的推动者的作用，并将价值理论与当代全球化理论联系起来。这项研究的分析结果可能会为国家和全球的高科技劳动力移民政策提供信息。关注印度移民的主观经历也将表达他们的关切。