Doctoral Dissertation Research: Home Support in Rural-Urban Migration

虽然许多研究调查了从农村社区搬到城市的人，以及他们如何支持留守的家庭成员，但这项研究关注的是那些搬到城市成为城市工人的家庭成员留在社区的家庭生活。与许多这样的社区一样，由于旅游业、经济作物生产和基础设施的改善，该社区日益融入市场经济。本研究考察了经济变化如何影响农村家庭成员与城市工人之间的经济联系。它还调查了对留守家庭的影响，包括劳动需求和性别关系的变化。研究结果将广泛适用于在类似经济变化条件下经历大规模农村向城市迁移的地区。它们将对试图理解正在经历经济转型的地方的外部分析师及其他人有用。本研究采用民族志田野调查、口述历史与关键信息人访谈、档案研究等方法，探讨以下研究问题：1)经济变迁如何影响农村家庭成员与城市工人之间的资源转移？2)留守农村的家庭成员，特别是从事自给农业、商业化经济作物生产、生育和抚养子女以及其他类型护理工作的妇女的劳动力需求是什么？3)家庭中的性别关系如何受到影响？研究结果将阐明经济变化可能导致的社区变化，对试图影响变化或减轻其后果的决策者、试图预测经济变化后果的预测者和试图理解正在发生的变化的社区都很有用。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

While many studies examine people that move to cities from rural communities and how they support family members left behind, this study looks at household life in a community left behind by family members who have moved to cities to become urban workers. As in many such communities, this community has become increasingly integrated into the market economy because of tourism, cash crop production, and improved basic infrastructure. This study examines how economic changes have influenced economic ties between rural family members and urban workers. It also investigates effects on the families left behind, including changes in labor demands and gender relations. Results will be broadly applicable to locations experiencing large scale rural-to-urban migration under similar conditions of economic change. They will be useful to, among others, external analysts trying to make sense of places undergoing economic transformation. This study uses ethnographic fieldwork, oral-history and key-informant interviews, and archival research to address the following research questions: 1) How do the economic changes influence resource transfers between rural family members and urban workers? 2) What are the labor demands on family members who remain in the village, especially on women who engage in subsistence agriculture, commercialized cash crop production, birthing and raising children, and other types of care work? 3) How are gender relations in the households affected? Findings will illuminate changes to community that can result from economic change and will be useful to policy makers trying to influence change or mitigate its consequences, forecasters seeking to anticipate consequences of economic change, and communities trying to make sense of changes that are occurring.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.