Doctoral Dissertation Research: Race, Identity, and Citizenship among Mexicans

研究机构：加州大学伯克利分校本研究采用广泛的人种学实地工作，通过一个案例研究，比较从新的沿海发送地区迁移到北卡罗莱纳州温斯顿-塞勒姆接收社区的非裔墨西哥人和墨西哥人，来研究种族是如何产生的。这个项目调查了黑人、白人和拉丁美洲人之间的种族关系如何受到这些变化的影响。与以前的研究相反，预计有相当数量的墨西哥黑人和墨西哥混血儿将表达与非洲裔美国人的亲密关系。墨西哥人在新的当代地理和政治背景下的经历，部分是限制性移民政策的结果，可能会使墨西哥人更倾向于以少数民族为基础的意识和政治联盟。通过这种方式，本研究将帮助我们了解种族和民族群体之间和内部社区一级组织的开放和障碍。更广泛的影响：这项研究将产生知识，可用于帮助学者和政策制定者更批判性地、渐进地思考如何在地方、州、国家和国际层面制定移民政策，以减轻其对移民及其发送和接收社区的一些负面影响。

SES-1031582PI: Sandra SmithCo-PI: Jennifer JonesInstitution: University of California, BerkeleyThis study employs extensive ethnographic field work to examine how race is produced through a case study that compares Afro-Mexicans and Mexicans migrating from new coastal sending regions to the receiving community of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This project investigates how race relations between blacks, whites and Latinos are impacted by these shifts. Contrary to previous studies, it is anticipated that a significant number of Afro-Mexicans and Mestizo Mexicans will express closeness to African-Americans. The experience of Mexicans in a new contemporary geographical and political context, in part, as a consequence of restrictive immigration policies, may move Mexicans toward a more minority based consciousness and political alignment. In this way, this study will help us understand both the openings for and barriers to community-level organization between and within racial and ethnic groups. Broader Impacts:This research will produce knowledge that can be used to help both scholars and policymakers think more critically and progressively about how to craft immigration policy at the local, state, national and international level in ways that can ameliorate some of their negative impacts on immigrants, as well as their sending and receiving communities.