Doctoral Dissertation Research: Intergenerational Transmission of Status in New Immigrant Families

博士论文研究：通过无证状态的代际传播PI：Shamus Khan，PhD; Co-PI：Nicol Valvis NSF摘要本项目是一项研究，出生，公民青年，以更好地了解公民身份的代际转移。 该项目比较了来自无证和有证移民家庭的青年的经历。 在美国移民政策中根深蒂固的合法-非法二分法在概念上限制了对移民子女公民身份经历多样性的理解。现在需要进行更细致的分析，以进一步揭示父母无证身份对他们在美国出生的子女的代际影响。这种类型的研究提供了新的方式来理解父母的社会背景代际传递给他们的孩子，并发展洞察当地环境如何调解和塑造移民出身的青年的生活经历。这项研究有可能帮助政策制定者，教育工作者和更广泛的公众了解无证身份对后代的社会影响。这一比较定性研究将询问组内差异有关的法律的地位的墨西哥裔美国人家庭居住在纽约市。指导这项研究的假设是，父母？无证身份造成了一种可继承或传给后代的社会环境。与无证家庭和有证家庭的访谈，加上对这些家庭的一个子集的人种学观察，将为无证家庭在日常生活中采用的策略提供新的见解。本研究采用多层次的生态学方法，通过收集个人和背景水平的观察结果。在个人层面上，这项研究将提供一个描述性的肖像的日常生活的无证和有证的墨西哥裔美国人的父母，因为他们提高他们的家庭。在上下文层面上，这项研究将详细说明高度可变的经验，无证父母和他们的孩子造成的因素，如社区，学校，和社交网络。鉴于无证经历往往是由当地因素塑造的，纽约对移民家庭的政策可以让我们深入了解各州如何帮助减轻无证父母的负面影响。更广泛地说，创造一个更有能力和更受教育的移民出身的青年人口，其未来的成就确实有助于我们国家的竞争优势，这是一个很高的赌注。

Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Intergenerational Transmission Through Undocumented Status PI: Shamus Khan, PhD; Co-PI: Nicol ValdezNSF Abstract This project is a study of U.S.-born, citizen youth to better understand the intergenerational transfer of citizenship status. The project compares the experience of youth from undocumented and documented immigrant families. The legal-illegal dichotomy ingrained in U.S. immigration policies is conceptually limiting for understanding the diversity of citizenship experiences for the children of immigrants. A more nuanced analysis is now required to further uncover the generational effects of parental undocumented status on their U.S. born children with citizenship. This type of research offers new ways of understanding the intergenerational transmission of parents' social background to their children and develops insight into how local context can mediate and shape the lived experiences of immigrant origin youth. This research holds the potential to help policy makers, educators, and the wider public understand the social implications of undocumented status for future generations. This comparative qualitative study will interrogate intra-group differences related to the legal status of Mexican-American families residing in New York City. The hypothesis guiding this research is that parents? undocumented status creates a social context that is inheritable or passed on to subsequent generations. Interviews with both undocumented and documented families coupled with ethnographic observations of a subset of these families will provide new insights into the strategies undocumented families employ in their daily lives. This study takes a multi-level ecological approach by gathering observations across both the individual and contextual level. On the individual level, the study will provide a descriptive portrait of the everyday lives of undocumented and documented Mexican-American parents as they raise their families. On a contextual level, this study will detail the highly variable experiences of undocumented parents and their children resulting from factors such as neighborhoods, schools, and social networks. Given that the undocumented experience is often shaped by the local factors, New York's policies on immigrant families can offer insight into how states can help ameliorate the negative impact of an undocumented parent. More broadly, the stakes are high for creating a more empowered and educated immigrant origin youth population, whose future achievements do matter in aiding the competitive advantage of our nation.