Family Migration and Early Life Outcomes

 描述(申请人提供)：移徙是一种日益严重的全球现象，影响着世界大部分地区的个人和家庭。尽管移徙在世界各地许多人的家庭生活中占有重要地位，但除了对整个家庭经济的影响外，人们对这些动态如何影响儿童和青少年的生活的了解有限。收集到的关于家庭移徙和儿童发展作用的新信息有助于为针对劳动力移徙高发地区的儿童的方案和政策提供信息。该方案项目借鉴了移徙、儿童发展和早期生活过程的理论框架，探讨了家庭成员的移徙可能改变儿童的发展、抱负、教育和随后的生活过程转变的多种机制。拟议项目的独特贡献包括：(1)将重点放在儿童社会化和发展的三个背景下，以确定移徙在多大程度上与早期生活过程中的结果类似；(2)在家庭生活过程中全面看待移徙问题，其中包括移徙的时间、持续时间和范围以及移徙者与留守儿童的关系；(3)研究小组的跨学科协调，其中包括在每种情况下移徙、儿童发展、教育、人生历程过渡和健康方面的专门知识。目标是与具有不同发展阶段、儿童和青少年过渡时期和移徙以及不同区域专门知识的调查人员一起，以了解家庭移徙经历如何与儿童和青少年的结果类似地联系在一起，以及这些环境可能导致不同路径的独特特征。该计划项目利用这些优势，在不同环境中使用可比较的方法收集数据，并侧重于特定的发展阶段。方案项目下的三个研究项目能够利用共享的数据收集和仪器开发基础设施，以及属于两个核心单位职权范围的协调和指导活动。这种方法产生的效率使研究比其他方法可能涉及的范围更广，并促进了跨研究项目的合作。因此，每个项目都能够考虑影响儿童发展、教育、期望和转变的多种生态环境，以及家庭移徙可能带来的这些生态环境的变化。该方案项目的组织结构利用了研究人员之间已经建立良好的现有合作，并利用了现有的研究基础设施。该计划的两个核心旨在创造一个协同环境，让每个项目分享整个研究团队的创意优势。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Migration is an increasing global phenomenon impacting individuals and families from most regions of the world. Although migration figures prominently in the family life course of many throughout the world, there is limited understanding of how these dynamics influence the lives of children and adolescents beyond the impact on household economies overall. New information gathered on the role of familial migration and children's development can help inform programs and policies directed at children in areas with a high prevalence of labor migration. Drawing on theoretical frameworks of migration, child development and the early life course, this program project addresses multiple mechanisms through which migration of family members may alter children's development, aspirations, education and subsequent life course transitions. The unique contributions of the proposed projects include (1) a comparative focus across three contexts of child socialization and development to determine the extent to which migration is similarly associated with outcomes in the early life course, (2) a comprehensive view of migration within the family life course that incorporates the timing, duration and scope of moves and the relationships of migrants with children left behind, and (3) an interdisciplinary coordination of research teams that include expertise in migration, child development, education, life course transitions and health in each setting. The goal is to join investigators with expertise on distinct developmental periods, transitions in childhood and adolescence and migration along with distinct regional expertise in order to understand how family migration experiences may be similarly associated with outcomes for children and adolescents and the distinctive features of these environments that may lead to differential pathways. The program project takes advantage of these strengths to collect data using comparable methods across settings and focusing on specific developmental stages. The three research projects contained under the umbrella of the program project are able to take advantage of shared data collection and instrument development infrastructure as well as coordination and mentoring activities that fall under the purview of two core units. This approach produces efficiencies that give the research a much broader reach than would otherwise be possible and facilitates collaboration across research projects. Thus, each project is able to consider the multiple ecologies impacting children's development, education, expectations and transitions as well as the possible changes in these ecologies introduced by family migration. The organizational structure of the program project takes advantage of the existing collaborations already well-established among the investigators and leverages existing research infrastructure. The two cores in the program are designed to create a synergistic environment that allows each project to share the creative strengths of the entire research team.