Immigration, Institutions, and Inter-Group Relations

移民、机构和群体间关系

• 批准号: 0921414
• 负责人: Maria Krysan
• 金额: $ 42.02万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 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: 2009-08-15 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0921414&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Immigration; Institutions; Inter; Group; Relations

SES-0921414Maria KrysanNilda Flores GonzalezPamela Popielarz Andy ClarnoUniversity of Illinois-ChicagoThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). How do individuals and communities receive new immigrants, particularly Latino immigrants? The research is situated within communities, where inter-group relations between immigrants and non-immigrants are experienced directly. The community focus is important because federal inaction on immigration legislation has paved the way for political action at the state and municipal level. The project will study the Chicago metropolitan area, where many communities are home to an increasing number of Latino immigrants. But just as individual people's attitudes about immigration range from antipathy to indifference to actively valuing diversity, community reactions also differ, ranging from enacting laws that limit immigrants' access to employment and education, to building institutions that explicitly assist immigrants. The research seeks to explain this variation in individual attitudes toward immigration and municipal political reaction to immigrants. Because reactions vary across communities with comparable immigration profiles, the research reaches beyond demographic change alone for these explanatory factors. The investigators hypothesize that various aspects of the local institutional context shape individual attitudes and community political outcomes concerning immigration. Local context includes (1) the social networks connecting individuals within the community and bridging to others outside the community, (2) the voluntary associations active within and relevant to the community, (3) the formal and informal political power structure of the community, and (4) the history of local events concerning immigration. The study addresses inter-group attitudes, local institutional context, and political outcomes in four Chicago area communities with different immigration profiles. It uses a multi-method approach to data collection, including a telephone survey of individuals, interviews with key community informants, public observation, and a study of archival materials such as city council documents and local newspapers. Because this engaged research study focuses on an issue that will undoubtedly be at the top of the domestic policy agenda in the coming years, its potential broader impacts come from its contribution to the scholarly and policy debate on how to address issues of immigration. Plans for the dissemination of the findings include, but are not limited to, traditional academic outlets (journal articles and books). Specifically, in partnership with the Institute of Government and Public Affairs and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at UIC, the investigators plan public events, broadly distributed and accessible research summaries, and community meetings, where they will present and discuss research findings. In addition, the project is linked with the Chicago Area Study, an inter-disciplinary research methodology practicum at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Because of UIc's diverse student body, the broader impacts of this project therefore also include training a demographically diverse group (including many from traditionally underrepresented populations) of graduate and undergraduate students.

SES-0921414玛丽亚KrysanNilda弗洛雷斯冈萨雷斯帕梅拉Popielarz安迪克拉诺伊利诺伊州-芝加哥大学该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助。个人和社区如何接收新移民，特别是拉丁美洲移民？该研究位于社区内，直接体验移民和非移民之间的群体间关系。 社区的关注很重要，因为联邦在移民立法上的不作为为州和市一级的政治行动铺平了道路。该项目将研究芝加哥大都市区，那里的许多社区是越来越多的拉丁裔移民的家园。但是，正如个人对移民的态度从反感到冷漠到积极重视多样性一样，社区的反应也各不相同，从制定法律限制移民获得就业和教育，到建立明确帮助移民的机构。 这项研究试图解释这种差异，在个人对移民的态度和市政政治反应的移民。由于具有可比移民概况的社区的反应各不相同，因此研究不仅仅涉及这些解释因素的人口变化。 调查人员假设，当地制度背景的各个方面塑造个人的态度和社区的政治结果有关移民。地方背景包括：（1）连接社区内个人和社区外其他人的社交网络;（2）社区内活跃的和与社区相关的志愿协会;（3）社区的正式和非正式政治权力结构;（4）当地移民事件的历史。该研究涉及群体间的态度，当地的制度背景，并在四个芝加哥地区的社区与不同的移民配置文件的政治结果。 它采用多种方法收集数据，包括对个人的电话调查，与关键社区线人的访谈，公众观察，以及对市理事会文件和当地报纸等档案材料的研究。由于这项参与研究的重点是一个问题，无疑将在未来几年的国内政策议程的顶部，其潜在的更广泛的影响来自于其对如何解决移民问题的学术和政策辩论的贡献。 传播研究结果的计划包括但不限于传统的学术渠道（期刊文章和书籍）。 具体而言，在与政府和公共事务研究所和拉丁美洲和拉丁美洲研究计划在UIC的合作伙伴关系，调查人员计划公共活动，广泛分布和访问的研究摘要，和社区会议，在那里他们将提出和讨论研究结果。此外，该项目与芝加哥地区研究，在伊利诺伊大学芝加哥（UIC）的跨学科研究方法实习。由于UIC的多元化学生团体，因此，这个项目的更广泛的影响还包括培养一个人口统计学上多样化的群体（包括许多来自传统上代表性不足的人口）的研究生和本科生。