The Reciprocal Dynamics of Family Transformation through International Marriage Migration

国际婚姻移民带来的家庭转型的相互动力

• 批准号: 1060807
• 负责人: Jennifer Cole
• 金额: $ 13.12万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-15 至 2015-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1060807&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Reciprocal; Dynamics; Family; Transformation; through

Dr. Jennifer Cole (University of Chicago) will undertake research on the role of changing marriage and family practices in shaping international migration. Most social scientific studies of migration have focused on national and international population movements and their effects at the national and regional levels. If marriages are considered at all in such studies, the existence of bi-national marriages is taken as a measure of host society assimilation. Dr. Cole will study international migration and marriage from the opposite perspective: the family-level and community-level processes that produce them. Such processes include situations where men and women use marriage and family reunification to enable migration and to maintain transnational relationships, on the one hand, while also serving their own local-level, community-level goals on the other. Looking at migration from the bottom-up will help to clarify causes and effects around an issue that is of central importance to both contemporary social science theory and effective migration policy.The research will be conducted in rural France because of the existence of a cohort of bi-national couples comprised of rural French men and African women from the island of Madagascar. Data will be collected using a variety of ethnographic methods including participant observation in the workplace, interviews with couples both together and separately, interviews with family members and community experts, and analysis of relevant materials from historical and comparative archives. The data will enable the researcher to elucidate how preexisting ideas of marriage, gender, and kinship affect and produce bi-national marriages; how the marriages, in turn, produce changed kinship and family practices; and how such arrangements affect the community integration of the couples and the communities into which they are integrated. Findings from the research will contribute to social science theory of the causes and consequences of contemporary migration. This research will further be of use to government officials and non-government workers interested in understanding the factors that promote migration and that contribute to, or hinder, the integration of migrants into their host societies.

詹妮弗·科尔（Jennifer Cole）博士（芝加哥大学）将对改变婚姻和家庭实践在塑造国际移民中的作用进行研究。 大多数移民的社会科学研究都集中在国家和国际人口运动及其在国家和地区一级的影响。 如果在此类研究中根本考虑婚姻，则双国婚姻的存在被视为衡量寄宿社会同化的量度。科尔博士将从相反的角度研究国际移民和婚姻：产生它们的家庭和社区级进程。这样的过程包括男人和女人利用婚姻和家庭统一来使移民和维持跨国关系的情况一方面，同时还为自己的本地层面，社区级的目标服务。 查看从自下而上的迁移将有助于阐明围绕当代社会科学理论和有效移民政策至关重要的问题的原因和影响。这项研究将在法国农村进行，因为存在由马达加斯加岛上的一群由法国男性和非洲妇女组成的两组夫妇。将使用各种民族志方法收集数据，包括在工作场所中的参与者观察，与夫妻一起进行访谈，并分别与家人和社区专家进行访谈，以及对历史和比较档案的相关材料的分析。 这些数据将使研究人员能够阐明婚姻，性别和亲属关系的既定思想如何影响并产生双向国家的婚姻；婚姻又如何产生亲属关系和家庭实践；以及这种安排如何影响夫妻及其融合社区的社区融合。研究结果将有助于社会科学理论，即当代移民的原因和后果。这项研究将进一步用于政府官员和非政府工作者，有兴趣了解促进移民的因素，并促进或阻碍移民融入其东道国社会。