Doctoral Dissertation Research: An Ethnographic Investigation of the Impact of Migration on the Psychosocial Well-Being of Youth

博士论文研究：移民对青年心理社会福祉影响的民族志调查

• 批准号: 1357684
• 负责人: Kenneth Maes
• 金额: $ 2.28万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1357684&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Ethnographic; Investigation

Oregon State University doctoral candidate Jamie Petts, supervised by Dr. Kenneth Maes, will undertake research to study the processes through which migration impacts the psychosocial well-being of youth. The study is focused on a group of adopted Ethiopian-born youth who have migrated to the United States, as an unprecedented number of Ethiopian youth migrate to or are adopted by parents in the U.S. Though adopted and migrant youth share a common national origin, their pre-migration situations, mechanisms of migration, and post-migration situations may be very different. The researcher's goal is to understand migration within the context of the social networks and the transnational political-economies that shape the migration process. The project will involve 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The researcher will bring together biocultural anthropological theories and innovative methods, including life history interviews, participant observation, and semi-structured interviews to target the agency of youth in shaping their niches, relationships, and aspirations, within political-economic context. The anthropology of adoption has focused largely on kinship and identity. This bioecocultural study of child development can shed light on the daily routines in which transnational migrant and adopted youth develop knowledge and skills, relationships, aspirations, and a sense of local and global social hierarchies. Moreover, this study will contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the challenges adopted and migrant children face and the results may be used to inform public policy aimed at supporting the well-being of Ethiopian youth and families living in the U.S. This project also contributes to the training of a graduate student.

俄勒冈州州立大学博士候选人杰米·皮恩将在肯尼斯·梅斯博士的监督下进行研究，研究移徙对青年社会心理健康产生影响的过程。这项研究的重点是一组通过埃塞俄比亚出生的青年谁已经迁移到美国，作为一个前所未有的数量埃塞俄比亚青年迁移到或通过父母在美国虽然通过和移民青年共享一个共同的民族起源，他们的移民前的情况下，移民机制，和移民后的情况可能会非常不同。研究人员的目标是了解移民的背景下，社交网络和跨国政治经济，塑造了移民过程。该项目将在美国太平洋西北地区进行为期12个月的人种学实地考察。研究人员将汇集生物文化人类学理论和创新方法，包括生活史访谈，参与者观察和半结构化访谈，以针对青年在政治经济背景下塑造他们的利基，关系和愿望的机构。收养的人类学主要集中在亲属关系和身份上。这种儿童发展的生物生态文化研究可以揭示日常生活中，跨国移民和通过青年发展知识和技能，关系，愿望，以及当地和全球社会等级的感觉。此外，这项研究将有助于更全面地了解移民儿童所面临的挑战，其结果可用于制定旨在支持埃塞俄比亚青年和生活在美国的家庭福祉的公共政策。