Impact of Male Wage Labor Migration on Population in Haiti

该项目涉及佛罗里达大学人类学专业的一名学生的学位论文研究。有待检验的假设是，来自加勒比海岛国海地的男性劳动力移民导致了家乡社区女性生育率的提高，因为男性提供的汇款对贫穷女性抚养子女非常重要。初步研究已经在广泛的调查数据中显示了这种关系。这名学生将在海地的两个村庄学习，其中一个村庄有许多缺席的男子在其他地方工作，另一个村庄的缺席男子相对较少。对村庄家庭中的个人进行广泛的调查将提供经济、生殖、营养和社会数据来检验这一假设。这项研究很重要，因为加勒比海地区长期以来一直是美洲国家移民劳动力的聚集地。海地尤其是该区域最贫穷的国家，一段时间以来一直存在男性外迁的现象。这一案例研究的贡献将是提供关于人类行为的细粒度信息，这是人种学擅长的。更好地了解移民劳工汇款对留守妇女生育成功的影响，对于试图设计改善海地人民生活条件的方案的发展规划者来说将是很有价值的。

This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of Florida. The hypothesis to be tested is that male labor emigration from the Caribbean Island of Haiti leads to increased female fertility in the home communities, because the remittances available from males are important to poor women in raising their children. Preliminary studies have shown this relationship in extensive survey data. The student will study in two villages of Haiti, one in which there are many absent men working elsewhere and another with relatively few absent men. Extensive surveys of individuals in households in the villages will provide economic, reproductive, nutritional and social data to test the hypothesis. This research is important because the Caribbean has long been a reservoir of migrant labor for the countries of the Americas. Haiti in particular has been the poorest country of the region, and has evidenced a pattern of male out migration for some time. The contribution of this case study will be to provide the fine-grained information about human behavior in context that ethnography excels in. Improved understanding of the impact of migrant laborer remittances on the reproductive success of the women left behind will be valuable for development planners attempting to design programs to raise the living conditions of the Haitian people.