Transnational Adoptees and Migrants: From Peru to Spain

Jessaca B.Leinaweaver博士(布朗大学)将对国际收养和国际移徙之间的关系进行研究，在参与这些流动的人口具有共同起源和共同目的地的情况下。社会科学家通常将移民作为一种国家或国际现象来研究，而国际收养则是在个人或家庭层面上进行研究。通过将这两种人口流动相互比较，Leinaweaver将能够阐明原籍国和目的地国的共同和不同因素；两者可能如何互动，特别是在融入接受国方面；年轻移民的身份和经历如何因被收养或成为劳动力移民家庭的一部分而受到影响。研究将在西班牙和秘鲁进行，重点是被西班牙收养的秘鲁儿童和移民到西班牙工作的家庭成员中的秘鲁青年。数据将通过各种人种学田野调查方法收集，包括参与者观察法、半结构化焦点小组访谈和对个人和家庭的半结构化访谈。该项目雇用的一名研究生还将分析西班牙和秘鲁的印刷和电子媒体，以收集进一步的证据，说明秘鲁人在西班牙的多样化存在是如何得到普遍调解和理解的。这项研究的发现将有助于当代国际人口流动的社会科学理论。这项研究也将对负责制定和实施移民和收养政策的政府官员、非政府工作人员和发展机构有用。

Dr. Jessaca B. Leinaweaver (Brown University) will undertake research on the relationship between international adoption and international migration, in situations where the populations involved in these movements share common origins and common destinations. Immigration typically has been studied by social scientists as a national or international phenomenon, while international adoption has been studied at the level of the individual or family. By bringing the two kinds of population movement into comparison with each other, Leinaweaver will be able to elucidate common and differentiating factors in the countries of origin and destination; how the two may interact, particularly with regard to integration into the receiving country; and how the identities and experiences of young immigrants are affected by being either adopted or part of labor-migrant families.The research will be conducted in Spain and Peru, focusing on Peruvian children adopted to Spain and Peruvian youth who are part of families who immigrated to Spain for work. Data will be collected through a variety of ethnographic fieldwork methods including participant-observation, semi-structured focus group interviews, and semi-structured interviews with individuals and families. A graduate student employed by the project will also analyze print and electronic media from Spain and Peru to gather further evidence of how the diverse Peruvian presences in Spain are popularly mediated and understood. Findings from this research will contribute to social science theory of contemporary international population movements. The research also will be useful to government officials, non-governmental workers, and development agencies charged with developing and implementing migration and adoption policies.