Doctoral Dissertation Research: Stability and Disruption in Transnational Families

SES - 1130500 rubsamen G. Rumbaut (PI)M。摘要自1996年以来，美国的移民和驱逐政策变得越来越严格。因此，从1995年（50,924人）到2009年（387,790人），被驱逐出境的人数增加了七倍多。针对驱逐出境的急剧增加，人权组织已开始记录因驱逐出境而经历分离的跨国家庭的后果。家庭破裂给家庭成员带来的意想不到的后果，尤其是被留在美国的美国公民儿童，结果与父母被监禁的儿童的经历相似。本文探讨了受驱逐出境影响的家庭如何应对这种分离，并试图减轻家庭分离的负面影响。在此过程中，研究考察了驱逐出境对跨国空间中家庭解体（离婚、遗弃）、移民和其他重构的影响。从这个意义上说，该项目审查跨国家庭在不断变化的移民和执法环境中能够发挥何种程度的主动作用，而不仅仅是被动作用。数据收集策略借鉴了在美国和萨尔瓦多进行的半结构化生活史访谈。更广泛的影响了解有助于家庭稳定的因素，以及相反导致家庭解体的因素，仍然是政策制定者和公众非常感兴趣的一个重要社会问题。该项目的调查结果也可能引起美国和萨尔瓦多的社会工作者和执法专业人员的兴趣，并将相应地传播。由于其明确的跨国成分，该项目将有助于在加州大学与南加州和萨尔瓦多的非营利性移民权利组织之间建立桥梁。研究成果的传播将包括在社会学会议上发表报告、在社会科学和一般印刷媒体上发表出版物。

SES - 1130500Rubén G. Rumbaut (PI)M. Kathleen Dingeman-Cerda (co-PI)University of California, IrvineDoctoral Dissertation Research: Stability and Disruption in Transnational FamiliesAbstractSince 1996, immigration and deportation policies in the United States have grown increasingly restrictive. As a result, deportations have increased more than sevenfold between 1995 (50,924) and 2009 (387,790). In response to this drastic increase in deportations, human rights organizations have begun to document the consequences for transnational families experiencing separation due to deportation. The unintended consequences of family disruption on family members, especially U.S. citizen children left behind in the U.S., turn out to parallel those experienced by children with incarcerated parents. This dissertation examines how families affected by deportation cope with such separations and try to mitigate the negative impact of family separation. In the process, the research examines the effects of deportation on family dissolution (divorce, abandonment), emigration, and other reconfigurations in transnational space. In that sense, the project examines the degree to which transnational families can play a proactive rather than merely reactive role in a fluid immigration and law enforcement context. Data collection strategies draw on semi-structured life history interviews conducted in the U.S. and El Salvador.Broader ImpactsUnderstanding the factors that help make families stable -- and, inversely, factors that lead to family dissolution -- remains an important social issue of significant interest to policy makers and the general public. Findings from this project may also be of interest to social workers and law enforcement professionals in both the U.S. and El Salvador and will be disseminated accordingly. Because of its explicit cross-national component, the project will help build bridges between the University of California and non-profit migrant rights organizations in Southern California and El Salvador. Dissemination of research findings will include presentations at sociological conferences, publication in social science and general print media.