Dissertation Research: Changing Ideologies Affecting Immigrants to Sicily

本论文研究奖将资助一名文化人类学家，研究西西里岛巴勒莫工人阶级城镇居民对来自第三世界的移民劳工的反应。西西里人对“有色人种”的种族刻板印象将与他们自己对意大利北部和其他地方的西西里移民的偏见的理解进行比较。方法包括在工人阶级社区进行参与性观察，与工会官员和工人样本进行访谈，以及向社区居民分发结构化问卷。这项研究很重要，因为农民工在世界上许多社会都很普遍。增加对反移民偏见的原因的了解，特别是以种族术语表达的原因，将有助于决策者处理这些问题。

This dissertation research award will support a cultural anthropologist studying the reaction of working-class townspeople in Palermo, Sicily to immigrant laborers from the third world. The racial stereotyping by Sicilians of "people of color" will be compared with their own understanding of bias directed against Sicilian immigrants to Northern Italy and elsewhere. The methods include participant observation in a working class neighborhood, interviews with union officials and a sample of workers, as well as a structured questionnaire distributed to neighborhood residents. This research is important because migrant laborers are common in many societies in the world. Increased understanding of the causes of anti-migrant bias, especially as expressed in racial terms, will help policy makers deal with these problems.