The effects on families and communities of reintegrating migrant youth

重新融入移民青年对家庭和社区的影响

• 批准号: 1456889
• 负责人: Lauren Heidbrink
• 金额: $ 19.69万
• 依托单位: National-Louis University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1456889&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: effects; families; communities; reintegrating; migrant

This study will examine the effects of reintegrating migrant children into their families and communities. Using a longitudinal approach and mixed methods, the results should generate knowledge regarding the policies and practices of removal and reception of children, providing evidence to inform child protection and human rights locally and internationally. The research will contribute to scholarship on migration, reintegration, and the effects of law.This project engages three areas of scholarship: the migration literature on deportability, the anthropology of youth, and socio-historical literature of post-conflict nations. Although prior scholarship has seen children as the recipients of others' care, and migrants as individuals in motion, the present project challenges this approach by positing that children are part of a family structure and that their return has effects on them, their families, and their communities. Using the household as the primary unit of analysis, the study examines the effects of youth reintegration on families, peer groups, and communities. The principal investigator has had access to migrating youth in the United States and will follow them as they are reintegrated with their families in Guatemala. The research will employ a household survey, ethnographic interviews, participant observation, and individual ethnographies.

本研究将审查移民儿童重新融入其家庭和社区的影响。使用纵向方法和混合方法，结果应产生关于移走和接收儿童的政策和做法的知识，为当地和国际上的儿童保护和人权提供证据。这项研究将有助于移民、重新融入社会和法律影响方面的学术研究。该项目涉及三个学术领域：关于可遣返性的移民文献、青年人类学和冲突后国家的社会历史文献。虽然以前的学术研究将儿童视为他人照顾的接受者，将移民视为流动中的个体，但本项目通过假设儿童是家庭结构的一部分，并且他们的返回对他们、他们的家庭和他们的社区产生影响，挑战了这种方法。该研究以家庭为主要分析单位，考察了青年重返社会对家庭、同龄群体和社区的影响。首席调查员已经接触到美国的移民青年，并将跟踪他们与危地马拉的家人重新融合。本研究将采用家庭调查、民族志访谈、参与观察和个人民族志。