Doctoral Dissertation Research: Assessing the Impacts of Global Amenity Migration on Land Use, Livelihoods, and Communal Identities

博士论文研究：评估全球便利设施移民对土地利用、生计和社区认同的影响

• 批准号: 1735708
• 负责人: Melissa Wright
• 金额: $ 1.44万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-15 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1735708&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Assessing; Impacts

This project examines the impacts of amenity migration from high income regions in the Global North to middle and lower income regions in the Global South. As property prices increase in high amenity destinations in North America and Europe, a growing number of U.S., Canadian, and European citizens have sought to buy residential property globally, allowing them relatively low-cost access to tropical climates, beaches, and other lifestyle-oriented amenities. Often this migration and its associated residential development has been heralded as bringing economic development to poor rural communities, yet the specific impacts of these flows on local residents' land ownership and use, housing access, and means of making a living are not well understood. Scholars have begun to document how global amenity migration increases inequality and social fragmentation in communities, but little is known about the effects of such migration on local land use, livelihoods, and housing, nor how these changes are experienced by racial minority groups who have historically experienced social and economic marginalization. This project will address these gaps and create knowledge useful for constructing local, national, and international policies to mitigate some of the potentially negative impacts of growing global amenity migration on amenity destination communities.  Further, the project will train two undergraduate research assistants and provide support to enable a graduate student to establish an independent research career. This project seeks to demonstrate how amenity-oriented migration from high income regions in North America impacts ownership and use of land, the means of making a living, and access to housing across race, class, gender, and nationality in receiving communities. By analyzing these impacts in a predominantly Afro-descendant community on Costa Rica's Caribbean coastline, this research advances the study of amenity migration beyond its classic U.S.- and European-based contexts toward a more careful examination of how race, alongside class, shapes the experiences of residents in amenity destinations. The project employs mixed-methods research, including geospatial analysis of satellite imagery to establish broad patterns of land use change in the study area; analysis of land sale records to indicate ownership patterns and property subdivision rates; and a survey of past and present land-owning households to demonstrate patterns of land ownership, housing access, and means of making a living for groups across race, class, gender, and nationality. Finally, semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observation will provide insight into individual and communal experiences of land use, livelihood, and identity changes in the community. Through community round table discussions, the project will broaden local community representation within amenity development projects and local and national planning efforts.

该项目研究了从全球北方高收入地区向全球南方中低收入地区的舒适移民的影响。随着北美和欧洲高舒适度目的地的房地产价格上涨，越来越多的美国，加拿大和欧洲公民寻求在全球购买住宅物业，使他们能够以相对较低的成本获得热带气候，海滩和其他以生活方式为导向的设施。这种移徙及其相关的住宅开发往往被视为给贫穷的农村社区带来经济发展，但人们并不十分了解这些流动对当地居民的土地所有权和使用、获得住房和谋生手段的具体影响。学者们已经开始记录全球礼仪移民如何增加社区的不平等和社会分裂，但对这种移民对当地土地使用，生计和住房的影响知之甚少，也不知道这些变化是如何被历史上经历过社会和经济边缘化的少数民族群体所经历的。该项目将解决这些差距，并创造有用的知识，用于构建地方，国家和国际政策，以减轻日益增长的全球舒适移民对舒适目的地社区的一些潜在负面影响。 此外，该项目还将培训两名本科生研究助理，并提供支持，使研究生能够建立独立的研究生涯。该项目旨在展示来自北美高收入地区的以舒适为导向的移民如何影响土地的所有权和使用、谋生手段以及在接收社区中跨种族、阶级、性别和国籍获得住房的机会。通过分析哥斯达黎加加勒比海岸线上主要是非洲裔社区的这些影响，这项研究将舒适移民的研究推进到了经典的美国-和欧洲为基础的背景下，更仔细地检查如何种族，旁边的阶级，形状的居民在舒适的目的地的经验。该项目采用混合方法研究，包括对卫星图像进行地理空间分析，以确定研究地区土地使用变化的大致模式;分析土地销售记录，以表明所有权模式和财产分割率;对过去和现在拥有土地的家庭进行调查，以显示不同种族、阶级、性别的群体的土地所有权、住房获得和谋生手段的模式，和国籍。最后，半结构化的访谈和人种学观察将提供洞察个人和社区的土地使用，生计和身份的变化在社区的经验。通过社区圆桌会议讨论，该项目将扩大地方社区在娱乐设施发展项目以及地方和国家规划工作中的代表性。