Doctoral Dissertation Research: Remittance Management During Disaster Recovery

博士论文研究：灾后恢复期间的汇款管理

• 批准号: 1833226
• 负责人: Susan Roberts
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833226&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Remittance; Management

This doctoral dissertation research improvement project analyzes the roles of different community's members in the decision-making about remittance allocations during disaster recovery. Human migration flows across borders is matched by financial (remittances) and communication counter-flows that sustain both the migrant at their destination and their families at their origin. Remittances sent by migrants are commonly used to meet basic consumption needs and for investment in education and housing, but they are also a key resource that communities mobilize in the aftermath of natural disasters. While it is generally understood that remittances constitute an important source of household income and contributor to community development projects, particularly during disaster recovery, what is less understood is the role of women in the decision-making about the use of remittances during such recoveries. This project will inform the understandings of how remittance management is organized at the local level, specifically women's roles in decision-making, and has the potential to inform policy to be more attuned to the significance of the role of women in remittance management, especially in post-disaster recovery situations. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide support to enable a promising doctoral student. This project advances knowledge on how global migration and finance flows rely upon and rework family networks and local communities. It will do so by answering two central research questions. First, it assesses how a community manages remittances in the context of other financial and resources inputs, especially when stressed due to a natural disaster. Second, it investigates how negotiations over remittances are transforming the lives of women. Specifically, this research project will analyze (1) the precise ways that remittances are managed after a natural disaster; (2) how women participate in remittance management at the household and community level; and (3) how the process of negotiating the use of remittances is transforming the responsibilities, labor, and social involvement of women in communities. The doctoral student will combine a comprehensive household survey with qualitative methods such as archival research, participant observation, and semi-structured interviews in a case study of the post-earthquake recovery in Oaxaca, Mexico. The research will contribute new theoretical insights on the relationship between gender, labor, and citizenship as well as generate new findings on how global migration and remittance flows are mobilized by family networks and local communities in post-disaster situations.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.

本博士论文研究改进项目分析了不同社区成员在容灾期间汇款分配决策中的作用。与跨越国界的移民流动相匹配的是金融(汇款)和通信反流动，这些流动既维持移民在其目的地的流动，又维持其在原籍地的家庭。移民汇款通常用于满足基本消费需求以及教育和住房投资，但它们也是社区在自然灾害后动员起来的一项关键资源。虽然人们普遍认为，汇款是家庭收入的重要来源，也是社区发展项目的贡献者，特别是在灾后恢复期间，但人们不太了解的是，妇女在关于在灾后恢复期间使用汇款的决策中的作用。该项目将使人们了解如何在地方一级组织汇款管理，特别是妇女在决策中的作用，并有可能使政策更好地适应妇女在汇款管理中的作用的重要性，特别是在灾后恢复情况下。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该项目将为培养有前途的博士生提供支持。该项目增进了有关全球移徙和资金流动如何依赖和改造家庭网络和当地社区的知识。它将通过回答两个中心研究问题来做到这一点。首先，它评估了一个社区如何在其他资金和资源投入的背景下管理汇款，特别是在因自然灾害而面临压力的情况下。其次，它调查了汇款谈判如何改变女性的生活。具体来说，这项研究项目将分析(1)自然灾害后汇款管理的确切方式；(2)妇女如何参与家庭和社区一级的汇款管理；(3)汇款使用谈判过程如何改变妇女在社区中的责任、劳动和社会参与。这位博士生将在墨西哥瓦哈卡州地震后恢复的案例研究中，将全面的家庭调查与档案研究、参与者观察和半结构化访谈等定性方法相结合。这项研究将对性别、劳动力和公民身份之间的关系提供新的理论见解，并就灾后家庭网络和当地社区如何动员全球移民和汇款流动产生新的发现。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。