The Border Wall, Immigration, and Citizenship on the United States/Mexico Border

美国/墨西哥边境的边境墙、移民和公民身份

• 批准号: 0852531
• 负责人: Miguel Diaz-Barriga
• 金额: $ 13.4万
• 依托单位: Swarthmore College
• 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: 2009-04-01 至 2010-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0852531&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Border; Wall; Immigration; Citizenship; United

Dr. Miguel Diaz-Barriga, Swarthmore College, and Dr. Margaret Dorsey, University of Pennsylvania, will undertake anthropological research on how people living in South Texas understand and are affected by the border fence between the United States and Mexico. In the context of heightened national attention to issues of illegal immigration, South Texas has become a unique field site for understanding contemporary American notions of citizenship and patriotism.The researchers will use ethnographic methods to study residents along the border in Hidalgo County, Texas. They will focus on "border wall talk" and its relation to how people understand citizenship. They will conduct extensive interviews with politicians, activists, business leaders, land owners, and local residents. The researchers also will carry out participant observation research in informal settings in Hidalgo County, such as locally-owned taquerias, Veterans of Foreign Wars halls, and coffee shops to understand the nature and circulation of border talk in local culture. These qualitative data will be complemented with a quantitative survey of area residents, which will provide data for comparison with national level surveys. The research will enable social scientists to better understand the complex interplay between transnational expressions of citizenship, national patriotism, and multiple local perspectives. This will lead to better frameworks for understanding the dynamic nature of borders in the contemporary world and contribute to better policy for border concerns.

斯沃斯莫尔学院的米格尔·迪亚兹·巴里加博士和宾夕法尼亚大学的玛格丽特·多尔西博士将进行人类学研究，研究生活在南德克萨斯州的人们如何理解美国和墨西哥之间的边境围栏并受到其影响。在全国高度关注非法移民问题的背景下，南德克萨斯州已成为了解当代美国公民身份和爱国主义观念的独特实地考察点。研究人员将使用民族志方法研究德克萨斯州伊达尔戈县边境沿着的居民。他们将专注于“边境墙谈话”及其与人们如何理解公民身份的关系。他们将对政治家、活动家、商界领袖、土地所有者和当地居民进行广泛的采访。研究人员还将在伊达尔戈县的非正式环境中进行参与者观察研究，例如当地拥有的taquerias，外国战争退伍军人霍尔斯和咖啡馆，以了解当地文化中边境谈话的性质和流通。 这些定性数据将得到地区居民定量调查的补充，定量调查将提供与国家一级调查进行比较的数据。这项研究将使社会科学家能够更好地理解公民身份，民族爱国主义和多种地方观点的跨国表达之间的复杂相互作用。这将有助于建立更好的框架，以了解当代世界边界的动态性质，并有助于制定更好的边界问题政策。