Doctoral Dissertation Research: Hometown Associations as Vehicles for Migrant Political Participation

博士论文研究：家乡联谊会作为农民工政治参与的载体

• 批准号: 0925776
• 负责人: Jose Itzigsohn
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 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 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0925776&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Hometown; Associations

SES-0925776José Itzigsohn Daniela Villacrés Brown UniversityThis research studies the conditions under which migrants deepen democracy in their hometowns of origin through participation in transnational hometown associations (HTAs). HTAs are expressions of migrant civil society around which the research is framed theoretically and empirically. The study hypothesizes that HTAs which foster high degrees of linkage with their local states and with their communities more effectively deepen democracy than those which engender low degrees of linkage. Using archives and semi-structured interviews, data are collected from four Salvadoran HTAs on their linkages with their local states and communities, as operationalized though projects and social ties. For the municipalities served by each HTA, this study also gathers data on key indicators of democratic deepening theorized in the literature: (i) robust civil society, (ii) the active practice of politics, (iii) increased state transparency and accountability, and (iv) reduced inequality and social exclusion. Over the 10-15 years for which data are collected, this study maps points of intersection between democratic indicators and the evolution of the HTA's linkages to establish correlation between the HTA's intervention and democratic deepening in each municipality. Broader ImpactThis study has important wide-ranging impacts. Ultimately, findings are generalized beyond HTAs and El Salvador to uncover the mechanisms by which civil society associations in the global south effectively deepen democracy at the local level in order to transform individuals from subjects of the state into high-intensity citizens. Findings further knowledge in the literature on democratic deepening by going beyond issues of institutional design to highlight the mechanisms which underlie civil society's engagement. Findings also add to the sociological literature on transnationalism, illuminating how migrants engage dynamically as transnational political actors, transferring values and practices between the host country and hometown and transforming democratic quality and notions of citizenship. In addition, HTAs are useful tools through which to link micro-sociological variables to macro-sociological discourses about the public sphere. Thus, this study develops a typology of citizenship which allows for a nuanced analysis and theorizes how civil society is positioned vis-à-vis the local state and community to deepen democracy. Consequently, this study unpacks civil society as a relational concept which engages dynamically with the local state and community. By introducing community as an autonomous actor in the practice of politics, this study also moves the discussion beyond the traditional dichotomy of state-civil society relations to present a three-dimensional conceptualization of democracy and reachs across disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences.

SES-0925776 José Itzigsohn Daniela Villacrés Brown大学本研究研究移民通过参与跨国家乡协会（HTAs）深化家乡民主的条件。HTA是移民公民社会的表达，围绕这一点，研究在理论和实证上都有框架。 这项研究假设，促进与当地国家和社区高度联系的卫生技术协定比产生低程度联系的卫生技术协定更有效地深化民主。使用档案和半结构化的访谈，数据收集从四个萨尔瓦多卫生技术协定与当地国家和社区的联系，通过项目和社会联系运作。对于每个HTA所服务的城市，本研究还收集了文献中理论化的民主深化的关键指标的数据：（一）强大的民间社会，（二）积极的政治实践，（三）增加国家透明度和问责制，（四）减少不平等和社会排斥。在10-15年的数据收集，这项研究映射点之间的交叉点民主指标和HTA的联系的演变，以建立HTA的干预和民主深化在每个城市之间的相关性。这项研究具有重要的广泛影响。最后，研究结果被推广到HTAs和萨尔瓦多之外，以揭示全球南方的民间社会协会有效深化地方民主的机制，从而将个人从国家主体转变为高强度的公民。调查结果进一步的知识，在文献中的民主深化超越问题的体制设计，突出的机制，民间社会的参与。调查结果还增加了社会学文献的跨国主义，阐明了移民如何动态地从事跨国政治行为体，东道国和家乡之间的价值观和做法的转移，并改变民主的质量和公民的概念。此外，卫生技术评估是一种有用的工具，通过它可以将微观社会学变量与关于公共领域的宏观社会学话语联系起来。因此，本研究开发了一种公民身份类型学，允许进行细致入微的分析，并从理论上阐述了民间社会如何维斯当地国家和社区定位，以深化民主。因此，本研究将民间社会作为一个关系概念，与当地国家和社区动态地互动。通过引入社区作为政治实践中的自主行为者，本研究还将讨论超越了传统的国家-公民社会关系的二分法，提出了一个三维的民主概念，并跨越了社会科学的学科界限。