Migrant Youth and the Sociolegal Construction of Child and Adult Categories

流动青年与儿童和成人类别的社会法律建构

• 批准号: 2341428
• 负责人: Maria Barbero
• 金额: $ 21.98万
• 依托单位: Florida Gulf Coast University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-06-01 至 2027-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2341428&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Migrant; Youth; Sociolegal; Construction; Child

Globally, a significant number of migrants are between the ages of 15 and 24. Although many migrants in this age group are in the process of transitioning from childhood to adulthood, the legal frameworks they encounter draw stark distinctions between migrant children and adults. In this project, the PI uses participant observation and ethnographic interviews to investigate the effects of child/adult dichotomies in legal frameworks in order to uncover the tensions and contradictions that may emerge as such frameworks intersect with social processes. Several research questions are investigated including what the roles social and legal understandings of childhood and adulthood play in the lives of young migrants as they arrive and settle into local communities, and how age-based processes and narratives differ depending on migrants’ demographic characteristics and experiences of family separation.Drawing from interdisciplinary theories about power, childhood, and agency, this project also seeks to contribute new perspectives to scholarship on youth migration by exploring how youth experience, negotiate, and co-construct the generational categories embedded in the policies and legal systems that shape their lives. Methods include participant observation and conversational interviews with migrant youth, semi-structured interviews with state workers and advocates involved with migrant youth and focus groups.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.

在全球范围内，大量移民年龄在15至24岁之间。虽然这一年龄组的许多移徙者正处于从童年向成年过渡的过程中，但他们遇到的法律的框架将移徙儿童与成年人区分开来。 在这个项目中，PI使用参与者观察和人种学访谈来调查儿童/成人二分法在法律的框架中的影响，以揭示这种框架与社会进程交叉时可能出现的紧张局势和矛盾。本研究探讨了几个研究问题，包括社会和法律的对儿童和成年的理解在年轻移民到达并定居当地社区时的生活中发挥的作用，以及基于年龄的过程和叙述如何根据移民的人口特征和家庭分离的经历而有所不同。该项目还试图通过探讨青年如何体验、谈判和共同构建影响其生活的政策和法律的制度中的代际类别，为青年移徙问题的学术研究提供新的视角。研究方法包括对移民青年的参与式观察和对话式访谈、对国家工作人员的半结构式访谈、对移民青年和焦点团体的倡导者的半结构式访谈。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。