POWRE: Transnational Identities: Southeast Asian-Americans, Gender, and Employment in Colorado

本研究将探讨在科罗拉多州丹佛市的大都市地区，东南亚移民的迁移和就业模式对其性别和种族认同形成的影响，以及受其影响的方式。具体而言，该研究将审查：i)基于“种族”和性别的排斥构成特定就业机会的方式；Ii)这些移民自己如何制定和制定策略来挑战他们所面临的劳动力市场歧视；iii)“亚裔美国人”女性气质和男性气质的刻板印象在不同世代和种族群体中的运作方式不同。该研究深入分析了丹佛大都市区内来自四个东南亚国家（即越南、菲律宾、老挝和柬埔寨）的100对跨代移民（总n = 200）的劳动力市场参与和身份形成。该项目将采用多种方法，包括深度和焦点小组访谈、事件历史调查和人口普查数据分析。代表特定移民社区的当地学生团体将集中参与项目结果的收集、分析和传播。这些发现将被置于对不同国家群体的移民和劳动力市场模式和经验的历史分析之中。这个项目将解决的问题很重要，主要有三个原因。首先，自1965年以来，进入美国的东南亚移民数量迅速增长。他们是一个日益重要的人口群体。其次，该项目将阐明影响这一人口增长的就业机会的因素，以及他们的存在如何影响丹佛地区的经济和文化发展。第三，学者们对这个群体知之甚少。因此，这项研究可以填补一个关键的知识空白。这个power项目将为广泛的比较项目和跨学科对话奠定基础，并将开创一个新的研究领域，将西尔维与比她目前拥有的更广泛的同事联系起来。此外，在她职业生涯的这个阶段，她有一个难得的机会来推进这一研究议程。最后，这项工作将有助于建立西尔维的知识库，这些知识库与她长期以来的研究重点密切相关，但也超出了她以前的工作范围，包括国际政治、东南亚美国劳工和移民地理。

This research will investigate the ways that Southeast Asian immigrants' migration and employment patterns shape, and are shaped by, their gender and ethnic identity formation in the larger metropolitan area of Denver, Colorado. Specifically, the study will examine: i) the ways that particular employment opportunities are structured by "race"- and gender-based exclusions; ii) how these immigrants themselves formulate and enact strategies to challenge the labor market discriminations they face; and iii) the ways that stereotypes of "Asian-American" femininity and masculinity operate differently across generations and ethnic groups. The research provides an in-depth analysis of labor market participation and identity formation among 100 cross-generational pairs of in-migrants (total n = 200) from four Southeast Asian countries (i.e., Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Cambodia) in the larger Denver metropolitan area. The project will employ multiple methods, including in-depth and focus-group interviews, event-history surveys, and census data analysis. Local student groups representing the specific immigrant communities will be centrally involved in the collection, analysis, and dissemination of the projects' findings. The findings will be situated within historical analyses of the different national groups' immigration and labor market patterns and experiences. The questions that this project will address are important for three main reasons. First, since 1965, the number of Southeast Asian immigrants entering the U.S. has grown rapidly. They are a population of increasing demographic significance. Second, this project will clarify both the factors influencing this growing population's employment opportunities, and the ways in which their presence is influencing economic and cultural developments in the Denver area. Third, scholars know very little about this population. This research thus can fill a critical gap in knowledge. This POWRE project will lay the groundwork for a wide range of comparative projects and cross-disciplinary conversations and will inaugurate a new realm of investigation that will link Silvey to a broader range of colleagues than she currently has. In addition, at this point in her career, she has a rare window of opportunity to advance this research agenda. Finally, this work will help establish Silvey's knowledge base in topics that remain closely linked to her longstanding research foci but also extend beyond her previous work to include the politics of international, Southeast Asian-American labor and immigration geographies.