Doctoral Dissertation Research: Transnational Family Movements

博士论文研究：跨国家庭运动

• 批准号: 1849749
• 负责人: Kristin Peterson
• 金额: $ 0.49万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1849749&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Transnational; Family

Security concerns increasingly shape local as well as transnational debates. The research supported by this award examines how these debates affect understandings of the role of the family. Family cultures are usually understood to be rooted in particular practices and places, but efforts to securitize the family in crisis contexts may take on common characteristics. Therefore, to understand what is happening in the United States, a comparative perspective is required. This project leverages ethnography's unique capacity for combining deep listening with social analysis to better understand the conceptualizations and concerns that motivate family-focused security movements.The research will take place primarily in Mexico, with shorter trips to other sites where security crises and significant family movements have emerged in recent years. The researcher will collect data through archival research to trace the history of these movements; textual analyses of media accounts; participant observation at multiple sites and across organizational scales; interviews; social network analysis; and GIS and timeline mapping of the global circulation of ideas about the family. These data will be analyzed to understand the historical, cultural, and geopolitical significance of individual family movement cases and how they connect to larger transnational developments.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.

安全关切日益影响地方和跨国辩论。该奖项支持的研究探讨了这些辩论如何影响对家庭作用的理解。家庭文化通常被理解为植根于特定的习俗和场所，但在危机情况下保障家庭的努力可能具有共同的特点。因此，要理解美国正在发生的事情，需要一个比较的视角。该项目利用民族志的独特能力，将深入倾听与社会分析相结合，以更好地理解激发以家庭为中心的安全运动的概念化和关切。研究将主要在墨西哥进行，并缩短对近年来出现安全危机和重大家庭运动的其他地点的访问。研究人员将通过档案研究收集数据，以追溯这些运动的历史;对媒体报道进行文本分析;在多个地点和不同组织规模进行参与者观察;访谈;社会网络分析;以及地理信息系统和时间轴绘制全球家庭观念传播图。这些数据将被分析，以了解单个家庭迁移案例的历史、文化和地缘政治意义，以及它们如何与更大的跨国发展联系在一起。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。