Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Political Economy of Migration and Identity

政治动荡、生态灾难和经济危机导致了移民的增加。这些大规模流动对国家和区域政策，以及对新抵达人口的经历和身份有什么影响？这个博士论文项目研究了试图排斥和融合新到人口的国家政策如何影响移民的身份和经历，以及这如何反馈到政策和国家身份。该项目测试和综合了治理、移民和身份的理论，并支持对人类学研究生进行经验、科学数据收集和分析方法的培训。这是一项多地点的人种学研究，在两种情况下，对工人阶级的新移民，态度和政策影响移民不同。具体而言，博士生将在为工人阶级移民服务的组织中进行参与性观察，并对移民和其他影响移民和受移民影响的重要利益相关者进行非正式的开放式和半结构化访谈。这些调查结果将通过对地方、主流和其他媒体的文本分析加以补充，这些媒体提供了与移民有关的政策、支持和信息的具体文件。由此产生的研究结果将有助于更好地了解跨国移徙治理的动态和后果；移民融合与排斥的文化、经济和政治意义；以及大规模人口流动对地方、区域和国家层面认同的影响。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。

Political turmoil, ecological disasters, and economic crises have led to an increase in migration. What impact do these mass movements have both on national and regional policies, and on the experiences and identity of newly arrived populations? This doctoral dissertation project investigates how national policies that attempt to exclude versus integrate newly arrived populations affect migrant identity and experience, and how this feeds back on policies and national identities. The project tests and synthesizes theories of governance, migration, and identity, and supports the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis.This is a multi-sited ethnographic study with working-class, newly arrived migrants in two contexts, where attitudes toward and policies affecting migrants differ. Specifically, the doctoral student will carry out participant observation in organizations serving working-class migrants and will conduct informal open-ended and semi-structured interviews with migrants and other important stakeholders affecting and affected by migration. These findings will be complemented by textual analysis of local, mainstream, and alternative presses that provide concrete documentation of migrant-relevant policies, supports, and information. The resulting research findings will allow for greater understanding of the dynamics and consequences of transnational migration governance; the cultural, economic, and political significance of integration versus exclusion for migrants; and the implications of mass population movements for identity at local, regional, and national levels.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.