Dissertation Research: Gender and Transnational Migration

自上世纪80年代以来，墨西哥和美国之间的原住民移民人数有所增加。男性移民的传统模式变得更加复杂，性别作为移民因素变得更加重要。这个项目涉及密歇根大学人类学专业的一名学生的论文研究，他研究的是从瓦哈卡州雅拉拉格镇到洛杉矶的移民。最近从该镇来的移民中，目前居住在洛杉矶的多达52%是女性。学生将通过对100个家庭的密集访谈、开放式访谈、参与者观察、瓦哈卡的家庭调查以及洛杉矶的参与者观察和访谈来调查轮回的文化意义。该项目的重点是可归因于移徙以及移徙信息和资本流动的性别角色的变化。该项目将分析移民的身份，而不是简单地从传统到现代的线性变化，而是更复杂、更微妙地融合了当地的雅拉拉格人、墨西哥人、南加州人和美国人的身份。这项研究将促进我们对移民生活经历的理解，将对必须处理移民问题的政策制定者有用，并将有助于培养年轻的社会科学家。

The migration of indigenous people between Mexico and the US has increased since the 1980s. The traditional pattern of male migrants has become more complex, with gender becoming more significant as a factor in migration. This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of Michigan, studying migrants from the Oaxacan town of Yalalag to Los Angeles. As many as 52% of the recent migrants from the town currently living in LA are female. The student will investigate the cultural meaning of transmigration through intensive interviewing of a sample of 100 households, open-ended interviews, participant observation, a household survey in Oaxaca and also participant observation and interviews in LA. The focus of the project is on the changes in gender roles attributable to migration as well as transmigratory information and capital flows. The project will analyze the identity of migrants as not simply varying along a linear progression from `traditional` to `modern` but rather on a more complex and nuanced blend of local Yalalag, national Mexican, local southern Californian and national US identities. The research will advance our understanding of the lived experience of migrants and will be useful to policy makers who must deal with migration, and will contribute to the training of a young social scientist.