Doctoral Dissertation Research: Constrained Choices: Negotiating Work, Family, and Legality

博士论文研究：受限选择：谈判工作、家庭和合法性

• 批准号: 1602352
• 负责人: Jacqueline Hagan
• 金额: $ 1.03万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-01 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1602352&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Constrained; Choices

SES-1602352Jacqueline HaganHolly K. Straut EppsteinerUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel HillA large body of work-family scholarship has evolved to examine how women in the United States make decisions related to work and family. Yet despite the significant presence of female immigrants in the United States, few studies have examined these issues among foreign-born women, particularly the five million women who are undocumented. Undocumented, foreign-born women have lower labor force participation rates than their male counterparts, documented immigrant women, and native-born women. To examine how foreign-born Latina women make decisions about work and family under precarious legal conditions, this doctoral dissertation research examines three questions: 1) How do Latina immigrant women?s legal status and family structure shape their labor force decisions and opportunities within new destination communities in the United States? 2) How do Latina immigrants negotiate motherhood under conditions of precarious legal status? 3) How do women in a new destination community interpret and respond to shifting immigration policies and contexts of reception at federal, state, and local levels? To answer these questions, the co-PI is conducting in-depth interviews with Latina immigrant mothers in central North Carolina and participant observation at community meetings that discuss immigration programs and policies. This project will contribute to sociological knowledge by bridging the work-family and international migration literatures, developing understanding of women's labor force decisions in new immigrant destinations in the United States, and generating new understanding of gender and international migration policy. These findings will be relevant for scholars of international migration, gender, and work and occupations, as well as policymakers at local, state, and federal levels and immigrant-serving organizations. This research is particularly important at a time when different levels of the U.S. government are seeking to address rights and regulations related to the undocumented population and members of mixed-status families.

SES-1602352Jacqueline HaganHolly K.北卡罗来纳州查珀尔山大学的斯特劳特·埃普斯泰纳一个庞大的工作-家庭奖学金机构已经发展到研究美国妇女如何做出与工作和家庭有关的决定。然而，尽管美国有大量女性移民，但很少有研究探讨外国出生的妇女，特别是500万无证妇女的这些问题。无证的外国出生妇女的劳动力参与率低于其男性同行、有证的移民妇女和本地出生的妇女。要研究如何外国出生的拉丁裔妇女作出决定，工作和家庭不稳定的法律的条件下，本博士论文研究探讨三个问题：1）如何做拉丁裔移民妇女？的法律的地位和家庭结构塑造他们的劳动力的决定和机会，在新的目的地社区在美国？2)拉丁裔移民如何在不稳定的法律的地位条件下谈判成为母亲？3)在一个新的目的地社区的妇女如何解释和应对不断变化的移民政策和接待环境在联邦，州和地方各级？为了回答这些问题，共同PI正在对北卡罗来纳州中部的拉丁裔移民母亲进行深入采访，并在讨论移民计划和政策的社区会议上进行参与观察。该项目将有助于社会学知识的桥梁工作-家庭和国际移民文献，在美国的新移民目的地发展妇女的劳动力的决定的理解，并产生性别和国际移民政策的新的理解。这些研究结果将与国际移民，性别，工作和职业的学者，以及地方，州和联邦各级和移民服务组织的决策者有关。这项研究在美国各级政府寻求解决与无证人口和混合身份家庭成员有关的权利和法规时尤为重要。