Doctoral Dissertation Research: Gender, Migration, and New Spaces for Palestinian Women

博士论文研究：性别、移民和巴勒斯坦妇女的新空间

• 批准号: 0902777
• 负责人: Amy Mills
• 金额: $ 1.16万
• 依托单位: University South Carolina Research Foundation
• 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 2010-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0902777&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Gender; Migration

Migration is often examined as either an international experience or as rural to urban movement. Migration in Palestine fits neither of these models, but rather displays its own distinct migration flow and pattern. This is due to restrictions on mobility within the Palestinian territories, which in turn have limited economic potential and dramatically altered the Palestinian economy as a whole. In the past, these migration flows have been to outside the Palestinian territories. A more recent adaptive strategy is for Palestinians to move internally to Ramallah, a town quickly emerging as the de facto capital of the Palestinian territories, and as such, the economic and cultural center of the West Bank. Among these recent Ramallah migrants is the population under examination: highly educated, single young women from various parts of the West Bank. The presence of these young women indicates the extent to which restrictions on Palestinian society have begun to alter gender roles and behaviors among Palestinian women, as these women exert themselves in a new social and economic space removed from patriarchal households. The project examines the ramifications of the changing Palestinian economy for women by exploring the ways in which the act of migration, and of living away from home, transforms household roles, relationships and young women's identities. The focus on the scale of the migration and on the unique gendered aspects of it is a primary research goal. Methods employed will be semi-structured interviewing in Arabic of the young women themselves, their families and other key informants. The interviews will be supplemented with participant observation. This doctoral dissertation research combines ideas and theory from feminist geography, migration studies, and Middle East areas studies. The emphasis is on understanding how gender and other power relations are constituted at varying scales such as the household, civil-society, the nation-state and the global economy. Palestinian women live in a constantly changing political atmosphere, which can vary from day to day and even hour to hour, and an in-depth examination of their lives will inform migration and gender studies at large. Little attention has focused on single Palestinian women, or on the ways in which their internal migration choices and outcomes are conditioned by the larger context of political restraints on mobility. This new migration pattern is an opportunity to study the relationship between gender and migration in conjunction with the formation of place-based identities and constructions of home and household. The case study of Palestinian women has much to teach about how current patterns of migration form and are influenced by factors beyond an individual's control, although they can still illustrate a route to women's empowerment and mobility. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a student to establish a strong independent research career.

移徙往往被视为一种国际经验或从农村向城市的流动。巴勒斯坦的移徙不符合这两种模式，而是显示出其独特的移徙流动和模式。这是由于在巴勒斯坦领土内的流动受到限制，这反过来又限制了经济潜力，并极大地改变了整个巴勒斯坦经济。在过去，这些移民流向巴勒斯坦领土以外。最近的一个适应性战略是让巴勒斯坦人内部迁移到拉马拉，一个迅速成为巴勒斯坦领土事实上的首都的城镇，也是西岸的经济和文化中心。在这些最近的拉马拉移民中，有正在接受审查的人口：来自西岸各地的受过高等教育的单身年轻妇女。这些年轻妇女的存在表明，对巴勒斯坦社会的限制已开始在多大程度上改变巴勒斯坦妇女的性别角色和行为，因为这些妇女在一个摆脱了父权制家庭的新的社会和经济空间中努力工作。该项目通过探讨移徙行为和离家生活改变家庭角色、关系和青年妇女身份的方式，审查不断变化的巴勒斯坦经济对妇女的影响。重点关注移徙的规模及其独特的性别方面是一个主要的研究目标。 所采用的方法将是用阿拉伯语对年轻妇女本人、她们的家人和其他关键的举报人进行半结构化的访谈。访谈将辅以参与者观察。 这篇博士论文的研究结合了女性主义地理学、移民研究和中东地区研究的思想和理论。重点是了解性别和其他权力关系是如何在不同的规模，如家庭，公民社会，民族国家和全球经济构成。巴勒斯坦妇女生活在一个不断变化的政治环境中，这种环境每天甚至每小时都在变化，对她们生活的深入研究将为整个移徙和性别研究提供信息。很少有人关注单身的巴勒斯坦妇女，也很少有人关注她们的国内移徙选择和结果如何受到对流动性的政治限制这一更大背景的制约。这一新的移徙模式提供了一个机会，可以结合基于地点的身份的形成以及家庭和住户的构建，研究性别与移徙之间的关系。关于巴勒斯坦妇女的个案研究可以提供很多教益，说明目前的移徙模式是如何形成的，以及如何受到个人无法控制的因素的影响，尽管这些研究仍然可以说明妇女赋权和流动的途径。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使学生能够建立一个强大的独立研究生涯。