Strengthening Qualitative Research through Methodological Innovation and Integration: Assimilation and Transition to Early Adulthood for Mexican Americans

SES-1026580罗伯特考特尼史密斯CUNY巴鲁克学院这个项目研究的经验，同化和过渡到成年早期的墨西哥裔美国人在纽约，利用14年的人种学研究和使用新的方法。 该项目将分析PI收集的关于纽约墨西哥移民儿童在工作、学校以及社会和个人生活中的数据。 这个项目借鉴了长期的人种学和访谈研究，将分析研究移民青年进入成年早期时或多或少向上移动的的机制。该项目使用新的方法来研究向成年早期过渡的同化和流动性。具体来说，它适用于一个面向案例的逻辑分析民族志数据转换成概要，然后到数字，使它可以使用新的技术进行分析。 PI开发了生命过程多维分析协议（LMAP），该协议对定性数据进行整理，以便用于定性比较分析（QCA）。更广泛的影响该项目将有助于整合定性和定量方法。 此外，研究结果将有助于深入了解发展城市大学（纽约城市大学）的计划，促进移民和其他青年的子女的大学入学率

SES- 1026580Robert Courtney Smith CUNY Baruch CollegeThis project studies the experience of assimilation and transition to early adulthood for Mexican Americans in New York, drawing on fourteen years of ethnographic research and using new methodological approaches. The project will analyze data gathered by the PI on children of Mexican immigrants in New York at work, in school and in their social and personal lives. This project draws on long term ethnographic and interview research to that will be analyzed to study the mechanisms through which immigrant youth use to become more or less upwardly mobile as they enter early adulthood. The project uses new methods to examine assimilation and mobility in the transition to early adulthood. Specifically, it applies a case oriented logic of analysis to ethnographic data to transform it into synopses and then into numbers so it may be analyzed using new techniques. The PI has developed the Lifecourse Multidimensional Analytical Protocol (LMAP) which arranges qualitative data so it can be used for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).Broader Impact The project will contribute to the integration of qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches. Further, the findings will contribute insight into developing CUNY (City University of New York) programs that promote college attendance among children of immigrants and other youth