Dissertation Research: Sanctuary-Power: Tzeltal-Maya Civic Engagement and Sanctuary City Governance in San Francisco, California

博士生Peter Mancina（范德比尔特大学）将在Edward Fischer博士的指导下进行研究，探讨市政“庇护城市”政策对无证移民的公民参与和美国城市权力行使的影响。这些政策禁止市政雇员，包括警察，要求居民提供移民文件或向移民和海关执法局（ICE）报告无证居民，除非他们被判犯有重罪。庇护所政策的目的是将无证移民纳入公共安全工作，为他们提供公共服务和公民参与场所，减少对驱逐出境的恐惧。这项研究将在加州的旧金山弗朗西斯科进行。它将侧重于墨西哥恰帕斯州的Tzeltal-Maya移民与市政雇员和移民权利倡导者互动的经验，以确定“庇护城市”移民治理通过机构间，人际关系和群体间关系发挥作用的方式。通过参与观察、社会经济调查和人种学访谈，Mancina将重点关注庇护城市权力行使所依赖的四个因素：1）庇护立法，如城市监督委员会通过的“庇护城市”法令; 2）根据庇护立法为无证移民服务的市政雇员政策; 3）城市政府在城市居民生活中的角色的流动观念; 4）流动人口在劳动、政治、社会、社区等方面的参与，和宗教组织，使市政府增加获得权利和服务的机会。这项研究将有助于在治理取决于参与的社会权力的理论。非公民。研究结果也将有助于在城市，州和国家层面上对支持和反对庇护移民控制做法的有效性进行辩论。资助这项研究有助于培养研究生。

Doctoral student Peter Mancina (Vanderbilt University), under the guidance of Dr. Edward Fischer, will undertake research examining the effect of municipal "sanctuary city" policies on the civic participation of undocumented migrants and the exercise of power in American cities. Such policies forbid municipal employees, including police officers, from asking residents for immigration documents or from reporting undocumented residents to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unless they have been convicted of a felony. Sanctuary policies have been designed to incorporate undocumented migrants into public safety efforts, to provide them with public services and venues for civic participation with less fear of deportation.The research will be carried out in San Francisco, California. It will focus on the experience of Tzeltal-Maya migrants from Chiapas, Mexico in their interactions with municipal employees and immigrant rights advocates in order to identify the manner in which "sanctuary city" immigration governance functions through interagency, interpersonal, and inter-group relations. By means of participant observation, socio-economic survey, and ethnographic interviews, Mancina will focus on four factors upon which the exercise of power in sanctuary cities depends: 1) sanctuary legislation such the "City of Refuge" ordinance, passed by the city's Board of Supervisors; 2) municipal employee policies for serving undocumented migrants in compliance with sanctuary legislation; 3) migrant conceptions of the municipal government's role in residents' lives and 4) migrant participation in labor, political, social, community, and religious organizations that engage the municipal government for increased access to rights and services.The research will contribute to theories of power in societies where governance depends upon the participation of non-citizens. Findings from the research will also contribute to debates on the effectiveness of pro- and anti-sanctuary immigration control practices at the city, state, and national levels. Funding this research contributes to the training of a graduate student.