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

斯坦福大学博士生Eda Pepi将在Sylvia Yanagisako博士的指导下，通过约旦国籍法研究无国籍现象的再现，这些法律禁止嫁给非公民巴勒斯坦男子的约旦妇女将约旦国籍传递给她们的子女或配偶，从而使这些儿童成为无国籍人。佩皮将在约旦安曼市进行为期12个月的实地研究，重点是此类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、半结构访谈、代际家庭讨论、生活史和档案研究等社会科学方法的研究设计，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”(嫁给非公民巴勒斯坦男子的约旦妇女--子女是无国籍的夫妇)和“公民家庭”(嫁给巴勒斯坦妇女的约旦男子--子女是无国籍的夫妇)。这项研究将阐明国家监管对家庭生活的影响，以及家庭如何应对国家监管的不同影响。这个项目将对无国籍人类学做出贡献，现有的无国籍人类学学术仅限于少数几项政策研究，没有充分地将亲属关系和性别问题作为公民身份、主权和无国籍调查的组成部分。该项目将家庭生活框定为国家构成的行动中的一个重要主权场所。这项研究也很重要，因为它将使政策制定者了解无国籍个人的日常生活，世界上有超过1500万无国籍个人。这项研究的资金还支持对一名社会科学家的培训。

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.