RUI: From Exclusion to Belonging: Citizen-State Relations Within the Salvadoran Diaspora

拟议的研究研究萨尔瓦多移民的关系，美国和萨尔瓦多从1980年代到现在。 研究的问题包括：1。未经授权的移民如何生存剥夺; 2。为什么接收国有时合法化无证外国人;和3.为什么派遣国有时鼓励侨民保持距离但忠诚。 为了解决这些问题，拟议中的研究将审查这些政策变化的理由，政策变化的账户如何将移民定位维斯每个国家，以及政策变化对移民本身的影响。研究将在三个地点进行：洛杉矶，大约一半的美国萨尔瓦多人口;华盛顿，华盛顿特区;在那里，萨尔瓦多活动人士与美国移民政策制定者会面;以及萨尔瓦多首都圣萨尔瓦多，萨尔瓦多官员，政治家和活动人士在那里制定有关外籍萨尔瓦多人的政策。研究将包括与美国和萨尔瓦多的政策制定者，活动家谁试图影响政策制定者，和萨尔瓦多移民谁是政策的目标采访。将有100-150人接受采访。访谈将引出受访者对政策变化的描述，重点是对政策变化的解释、争议点、使变化成为可能的战略和联盟、现行政策的局限性以及政策变化对美国、萨尔瓦多和移民本身的可能影响。分析这些叙述将揭示未经许可的移徙者在被剥夺公民权的情况下生存的策略如何以及是否反过来又能在其原籍国和居住国获得某种形式的公民权。

The proposed research studies Salvadoran immigrants' relationships to the United States and El Salvador from the 1980s to the present. Questions examined include: 1. How unauthorized migrants survive disenfranchisement; 2. Why receiving states sometimes legalize undocumented aliens; and 3. Why sending states sometimes encourage expatriate citizens to remain distant but loyal. To address these questions, the proposed research will examine the rationales for these policy changes, the ways that accounts of policy changes position migrants vis a vis each nation, and the effects of policy changes on migrants themselves.Research will be conducted in three sites: Los Angeles, which is home to approximately half of the U.S. Salvadoran population; Washington, D.C., where Salvadoran activists meet with U.S. immigration policymakers; and San Salvador, the Salvadoran capital, where Salvadoran officials, politicians and activists devise policies regarding expatriate Salvadorans. Research will consist of interviews with U.S. and Salvadoran policymakers, activists who have attempted to influence policymakers, and the Salvadoran immigrants who are the targets of policies. Between 100-150 individuals will be interviewed. Interviews will elicit interviewees' accounts of policy changes, focusing on explanations for policy shifts, points of controversy, the strategies and alliances that made changes possible, the limitations of current policies, and the possible effects of policy changes on the United States, El Salvador, and migrants themselves. Analyzing these accounts will reveal how and whether unauthorized migrants' strategies for surviving disenfranchisement can in turn lead to some form of enfranchisement in both their countries of origin and of residence.