Doctoral Dissertation Research: Marital States: Kinship and Citizenship in Jordan

斯坦福大学博士候选人Eda Pepi将在Sylvia Yanagisako博士的指导下，通过约旦国籍法对无国籍的生殖进行研究。约旦国籍法禁止与非公民巴勒斯坦男子结婚的约旦妇女将其约旦公民身份传给其子女或配偶，从而使这些子女成为无国籍人。Pepi将在约旦的安曼市进行为期12个月的实地研究，重点是这些法律对混合家庭的影响，以及约旦政府试图规范巴勒斯坦人和约旦人的家庭生活。通过参与观察、半结构化访谈、代际家庭讨论、生活史、档案研究等社会科学方法的研究设计，以及争议处理和内容分析，Pepi将收集两类混合家庭的实践数据：“无国籍家庭”（约旦妇女与非公民巴勒斯坦男子结婚，其子女为无国籍）和“公民家庭”（约旦男子与巴勒斯坦妇女结婚，其子女为公民）。这项研究将揭示国家监管对家庭生活的影响，以及家庭应对国家监管的不同影响的方式。该项目将对无国籍人类学做出贡献，现有的这方面的学术研究仅限于少数政策研究，这些研究没有充分地将亲属关系和性别问题作为对公民身份、主权和无国籍问题的调查的组成部分。该项目将家庭生活框架为国家构成的主权行动的重要场所。这项研究也很重要，因为它将使政策制定者了解无国籍者的日常生活，世界上有超过1500万无国籍者。这项研究的资金也支持社会科学家的培训。

Stanford University doctoral candidate Eda Pepi, supervised by Dr. Sylvia Yanagisako, will undertake research on the reproduction of statelessness through nationality laws in Jordan that prohibit Jordanian women married to noncitizen Palestinian men from passing their Jordanian citizenship to their children or spouses, thereby rendering these children stateless. Pepi will conduct twelve months of field research in the city of Amman, Jordan, focusing on the effects of such laws on mixed families and on attempts by the Jordanian state to regulate family life for Palestinians and Jordanians alike. Through a research design involving social science methods such as participant observation, semi-structured interviews, inter-generational family discussions, life histories, and archival research, as well as through dispute processing and content analysis, Pepi will gather data about the practices of two kinds of mixed families: "stateless families" (Jordanian women married to non-citizen Palestinian men -- couples whose children are stateless) and "citizen families" (Jordanian men married to Palestinian women -- couples whose children are citizens). This research will shed light on the effects of state regulation on family life and on the ways that families cope with the differential effects of state regulations. This project will make a contribution to the anthropology of statelessness, the extant scholarship of which is limited to a few policy studies that do not adequately treat questions of kinship and gender as integral to inquiries into citizenship, sovereignty, and statelessness. The project frames family life as an important site of sovereignty in action where the state is constituted. This research is also important because it will inform policymakers about the everyday lives of stateless individuals, of whom there are over 15 million in the world. Funding for this research also supports the training of a social scientist.