Doctoral Dissertation Research: Contrasting Regimes of Labor Migration

本项目研究全球生产和区域发展的压力和环境如何在一个社会中创造出截然不同的劳动力迁移制度。 使用一个战略案例，它探讨了各种国家和非国家行为体如何管理劳动力迁移与全球海产品生产和区域经济一体化倡议。通过研究地方进程和更广泛的压力之间的联系，该项目推进了移民治理，劳动力的社会再生产，以及国家对区域和全球进程的影响的社会科学知识。数据将通过参与者观察和访谈收集。 通过比较两种劳动力迁移制度的情况进行分析：（1）在海产品生产的内部场所推进正式客工制度的正规化制度和（2）在区域相连的边境地区保持灵活和空间受限的劳动力的灵活遏制制度。 将对当地官员和工人进行采访，了解每个地点的做法。 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 project investigates how pressures and circumstances of global production and regional development create contrasting regimes of labor migration within a single society. Using a strategic case, it examines how a variety of state and non-state actors govern labor migration in relation to global seafood production and regional economic integration initiatives. By examining the link between local processes and wider pressures, the project advances social scientific knowledge of migration governance, the social reproduction of labor, and state influence vis-à-vis regional and global processes.Data will be collected through participant observation and interviews. Analysis will be through comparison of two cases of labor migration regimes: (1) a regime of regularization that advances a formal guestworker system in an interior site of seafood production and (2) a regime of flexible containment that maintains flexible and spatially-confined labor in a regionally-linked border zone. Interviews will be conducted with local officials and workers about practices in each site. Workers from another industry, origin, and site will be interviewed as well to provide comparison.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.