Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Production of Local Space on an International Border.

博士论文改进补助金：国际边界上本地空间的生产。

• 批准号: 0851099
• 负责人: Kirk Dombrowski
• 金额: $ 1.45万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 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: 2009-05-01 至 2010-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0851099&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Production

Doctoral student, Laura K. Neck, with the guidance of Dr. Kirk Dombrowski, will undertake social science research on local responses to the federal border wall currently being constructed in Brownsville, Texas. The researcher will examine the relationship between national economic and security concerns, increased border controls, and the understandings and responses of border area residents. The researcher will employ multiple social science methods including respondent driven sampling, structured interviews, informal semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and content analysis of letters addressed to local newspapers. Over time, Brownsville, which is one of the busiest Land Ports of Entry into the United States, has developed economically, socially, and culturally around relatively open access to Mexico. The Border Wall may transform that situation. This research will compare ethnographic data on local responses to the anticipation of the border wall and its effects on local spaces with national perceptions about securing borders. The research will help to better understand the dynamic relations between local and larger social systems as they relate to public policy and the control of space. It also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.

博士生劳拉·K·内克 (Laura K. Neck) 将在柯克·多姆布罗夫斯基 (Kirk Dombrowski) 博士的指导下，开展社会科学研究，研究当地对德克萨斯州布朗斯维尔目前正在修建的联邦边境墙的反应。 研究人员将研究国家经济和安全问题、加强边境管制以及边境地区居民的理解和反应之间的关系。研究人员将采用多种社会科学方法，包括受访者驱动抽样、结构化访谈、非正式半结构化访谈、参与观察以及对当地报纸信件的内容分析。 随着时间的推移，布朗斯维尔作为美国最繁忙的陆路入境口岸之一，围绕相对开放的墨西哥通道在经济、社会和文化方面取得了发展。 边境墙可能会改变这种情况。 这项研究将比较当地对边界墙预期的反应及其对当地空间的影响的民族志数据与国家对安全边界的看法。该研究将有助于更好地理解地方和更大的社会系统之间的动态关系，因为它们与公共政策和空间控制有关。它还将有助于社会科学家的教育。