Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Local Production of Global Labor

博士论文改进补助金：全球劳动力的本地生产

• 批准号: 0921155
• 负责人: Mark Nichter
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 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: 2009-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0921155&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Local

University of Arizona graduate student, Megan Prescott, supervised by Dr. Mark A. Nichter, will undertake research on the political economy of the reproduction of labor in globalized markets. She will focus her research on the reproduction of Filipino nurse labor. The Republic of the Philippines is an appropriate site for this study because it is known for overproducing and exporting nurses, which, when the nurses remit wages home, benefits both the national economy and the nurses' families. Prescott will investigate the processes by which Filipino nurse labor is commodified; the role of culture in the production of nurse labor; the international flows of nurses and remittances; and the role of the state in promoting, sustaining, and managing the Filipino nurse commodity chain. The researcher will gather data at multiple sites and using multiple methods. She will employ open-ended interviews, key informant interviews with multiple stakeholders, semi-structured interviews with nursing students and nurses in the process of migrating as well as their families, surveys with nursing students at 12 colleges or universities, focus groups on perceptions of migrant nurses and the effect of their migration on families, and participant observation at public events and functions. Text data (field notes, interview transcripts, life histories, narratives, and archival material) will be analyzed thematically using text analysis software and narrative analysis techniques. The proposed research contributes to social science theory by broadening the scope of global commodity chain analysis to incorporate both women's skilled labor migration and the local contexts and communities within which migration becomes normalized. By focusing on the nurse care commodity chain, in particular, the proposed research will provide a new perspective on the complex processes and impacts of nurse migration that is relevant to nurses, families, and health planners and policymakers. The research also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.

亚利桑那大学研究生梅根·普雷斯科特将在马克·A·尼克特博士的指导下，从事全球化市场中劳动力再生产的政治经济学研究。她将把研究重点放在菲律宾护士劳动力的再生产上。菲律宾共和国是这项研究的合适地点，因为它以过度生产和出口护士而闻名，当护士将工资汇回国内时，这对国民经济和护士家属都有好处。普雷斯科特将调查菲律宾护士劳动力商品化的过程；文化在护士劳动力生产中的作用；护士和汇款的国际流动；以及国家在促进、维持和管理菲律宾护士商品链方面的作用。研究人员将在多个地点使用多种方法收集数据。她将采用开放式访谈、与多个利益相关者的关键线人访谈、对移民过程中的护理学生和护士及其家人的半结构化访谈、对12所学院或大学的护理专业学生的调查、关于流动护士的看法及其对家庭的影响的焦点小组，以及在公共活动和活动中的参与者观察。将使用文本分析软件和叙事分析技术对文本数据(实地笔记、访谈记录、生活史、叙事和档案材料)进行主题分析。拟议的研究通过扩大全球商品链分析的范围，将妇女的熟练劳动力移徙以及移徙正常化的当地背景和社区纳入其中，从而为社会科学理论作出贡献。通过特别关注护士护理商品链，拟议的研究将为护士迁移的复杂过程和影响提供一个新的视角，这与护士、家庭以及卫生规划者和政策制定者有关。这项研究还将有助于社会科学家的教育。