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

斯坦福大学博士候选人Eda Pepi在Sylvia Yanagisako博士的指导下，将研究约旦国籍法造成无国籍状态的问题，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国籍传给子女或配偶，从而使这些子女成为无国籍人。 佩皮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，以及约旦政府为规范巴勒斯坦人和约旦人的家庭生活所做的努力。通过涉及社会科学方法的研究设计，如参与式观察，半结构化访谈，代际家庭讨论，生活史和档案研究，以及通过争议处理和内容分析，Pepi将收集关于两种混合家庭做法的数据：“无国籍家庭”（与非公民巴勒斯坦男子结婚的约旦妇女-其子女无国籍的夫妇）和“公民家庭”（约旦男子与巴勒斯坦妇女结婚-其子女是约旦公民的夫妇）。这项研究将阐明国家管制对家庭生活的影响，以及家庭科普国家管制的不同影响的方式。 该项目将对无国籍状态的人类学作出贡献，现有的奖学金仅限于少数政策研究，这些研究没有充分将亲属关系和性别问题作为调查公民身份、主权和无国籍状态的组成部分。该项目将家庭生活界定为国家主权的一个重要活动场所。这项研究也很重要，因为它将使决策者了解世界上有1 500多万无国籍人的日常生活。为这项研究提供的资金还用于培训一名社会科学家。

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.