Doctoral Dissertation Research: Women Migrants and Sending Households in the Context of South-South Migration

博士论文研究：南南移民背景下的女性移民与送出家庭

• 批准号: 1226975
• 负责人: Molly Doane
• 金额: $ 2.46万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1226975&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Women; Migrants

Doctoral student Laura Nussbaum-Barberena (University of Illinois at Chicago), with the guidance of Dr. Molly Doane, will undertake research on the implications of increasing disparity between the economies of countries within the global South during a period of global political and economic transformation. The research will focus in particular on South-South labor migration and its effects on economic disparities and changing notions of citizenship.The research will focus on Nicaraguan women who travel to Costa Rica for work. In the wake of privatization measures, poor Nicaraguan households attempt to meet the rising costs of social reproduction by sending labor migrants to Costa Rica. While this permits economic stabilization in Nicaragua and economic growth in Costa Rica, migrants themselves along with their family members appear to face downward mobility. Preliminary evidence suggests that migrants resist this process by negotiating rights, policy changes, and citizenship. The researcher will carry out ethnographic research with a transnational alliance of two organizations: one of Nicaraguan migrant women in Costa Rica and one of their women relatives in Nicaragua. The researcher will collect data through participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Archival research will take place in government offices and newspaper archives in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Findings from this research will help to theorize the unpredictable regional and cross-border dynamics of economic restructuring. Findings may also inform improved labor, immigration and social welfare policy. Funding this research also supports the education of a graduate student.

博士生 Laura Nussbaum-Barberena（伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校）将在 Molly Doane 博士的指导下，研究全球政治和经济转型时期南半球国家之间经济差距日益扩大的影响。该研究将特别关注南南劳务移民及其对经济差异和公民观念变化的影响。该研究将重点关注前往哥斯达黎加工作的尼加拉瓜妇女。 在采取私有化措施后，尼加拉瓜贫困家庭试图通过向哥斯达黎加派遣劳工移民来应对不断上升的社会再生产成本。虽然这使得尼加拉瓜的经济稳定和哥斯达黎加的经济增长，但移民本身及其家庭成员似乎面临流动性下降的问题。初步证据表明，移民通过谈判权利、政策变化和公民身份来抵制这一过程。研究人员将与两个组织的跨国联盟进行人种学研究：其中一名是在哥斯达黎加的尼加拉瓜移民妇女，另一名是她们在尼加拉瓜的女性亲属。研究人员将通过参与观察和半结构化访谈来收集数据。档案研究将在哥斯达黎加和尼加拉瓜的政府办公室和报纸档案馆进行。这项研究的结果将有助于对经济结构调整的不可预测的区域和跨境动态进行理论化。研究结果还可能为改善劳工、移民和社会福利政策提供信息。资助这项研究还支持研究生的教育。