Doctoral Dissertation Research: Caregiving and Care Receiving

这个研究项目，培训一名研究生进行基于实践的科学研究的方法，将调查一个特定的年轻人阶层如何与政府资助的护理及其对长期自给自足的影响。无人陪伴的未成年人是受国际保护的一类人，其权利受到1990年《联合国儿童权利公约》的保障，该公约已在196个国家批准成为法律。然而，在实践中，对于如何照顾和保护未成年人，特别是无人陪伴的未成年移民，以及这意味着什么，存在着分歧。这种模糊性可能给接受国带来重大的政策挑战。虽然“融合”和“照顾”的概念很少受到质疑，但这些想法所产生的做法可能含糊不清，甚至无效。 研究人员问：政府如何履行对本国公民和抵达的未成年人的责任？如何使未成年人能够自给自足，同时又符合对他们作为照料对象的要求？这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于了解如何应对世界各地举目无亲的老年未成年人日益增多的现实，这项研究将由斯坦福大学人类学博士生Torin Jones在Sylvia Yanagisako博士的监督下进行。研究人员选择将该项目主要在地中海城市卡塔尼亚的青年移民中心进行，卡塔尼亚是东部西西里的一个长期移民登陆港口。这是一个合适的网站，因为卡塔尼亚通常被认为是一个成功的故事，由于其精心设计的移民欢迎服务。此外，该区域在边界证券化方面采取了多种办法。因此，了解卡塔尼亚的情况可能会为其他城市，包括美国的移民接收地提供一个模式。研究者将透过访谈、参与观察、生活史调查等方式，搜集资料，访谈对象包括政府官员、移民中心工作人员及移民本身。他还将收集和分析适当的文件。这些材料将使研究人员能够了解一套特定的政策和方案是如何被青年移民接受和影响的。研究结果将有助于更好的理论移民治理和受援国的反应。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research project, which trains a graduate student in methods of conducting empirically-grounded scientific research, will investigate how a particular class of young people interact with government-sponsored care and its effects on long-term self-sufficiency. Unaccompanied minors are an internationally protected class of humans, with rights guaranteed by the 1990 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and its ratification into law in 196 nations. However, in practice, there is disagreement about how the care and protection of minors, particularly unaccompanied minor immigrants, actually should happen and what it means. This ambiguity can produce major policy challenges for receiving countries. While the notions of "integration" and "care" are rarely challenged, the practices produced by these ideas may be ambiguous and even ineffective. The researcher asks: How can governments carry out their responsibilities to both their own citizens and to arriving minors? How can the minors become self-sufficient while also conforming to what is asked of them as care recipients? This research is important because it will contribute to understanding the reality of responding to the growing numbers of older unaccompanied minors throughout the world.The research will be carried out by Stanford University anthropology doctoral student, Torin Jones, under the supervision of Dr. Sylvia Yanagisako. The researcher has chosen to situate the project primarily in youth migrant centers in the Mediterranean city of Catania, a longstanding port of migrant disembarkation in Eastern Sicily. This is an appropriate site because Catania is generally regarded as a success story due to its elaborated migrant welcome services. In addition, the region has had multiple approaches to border securitizations. Therefore, understanding the situation in Catania may provide a model for other cities, including migrant receiving sites in the United States. The researcher will collect information through interviews, participant observation, and life history elecitation with bureaucrats, migrant center staff, and migrants themselves. He will also collect and analyze appropriate documents. These materials will allow the researcher to learn how a particular set of policies and programs is received by and affects youth migrants. Findings from the research will contribute to better theory of migrant governance and recipient response. It will also aid policy makers concerned both with the futures of local communities as well the futures of unaccompanied foreign minors.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.