Doctoral Dissertation Research: An Ethnographic Study of Rivaling State Jurisdictions and the Politics of Health Care Access in Mexico

该项目探讨了墨西哥的法律法规和妇女的经历，对比了两个不同法律框架的州。女性可以通过不同的法律规则从自己的家乡前往墨西哥城，对影响她们的法律制定战略。将在墨西哥城的宣传网络和位于墨西哥城以西的邻近瓜纳华托州的法院档案中进行一项民族志研究。这位研究人员将与墨西哥城的倡导团体和访问这些团体的女性合作，并处理档案中的法律文件。位于墨西哥城的倡导团体使妇女能够动员法律；这项研究将评估对比，以解决两个核心问题：1)在立法不同的邻近司法管辖区，关于亲属关系、义务和自治的相互冲突的法律和道德话语是如何纠缠在一起的；2)妇女如何谈判由相互竞争的司法制度产生的法律压力？关于知识价值，这一研究项目将为墨西哥不同司法管辖区的法律动员、法律宣传和新法律的实施带来宝贵的洞察力，这一领域尚未得到充分研究，法律框架在法律和社会科学领域提出了新的挑战。通过将档案研究与参与观察和反复开放访谈等人种学方法相结合，当邻近司法管辖区的法律存在差异时，这项调查将有助于了解法律动员。关于更广泛的影响，该项目将培训一名研究生，并向墨西哥的社区团体提供关于妇女在参与法律监管时如何制定战略的反馈。

This project explores legal regulation and women's experiences in Mexico, contrasting two different states with different legal frameworks. Women can strategize about the law that affects them by going from their home state to Mexico City, with different legal rules. An ethnographic study will be conducted in advocacy networks in Mexico City and court archives in the adjacent state of Guanajuato, located to the west of Mexico City. The researcher will work with advocacy groups in Mexico City and women who access the groups, and with legal documents in archives. Advocacy groups located in Mexico City enable women to mobilize the law; this study will evaluate contrasts to address two central questions: 1) How are conflicting legal and moral discourses of kinship, obligation and autonomy entangled in neighboring jurisdictions with different legislation and 2) How do women negotiate the legal pressures generated by rivaling juridical regimes? With regard to intellectual merit, this research project will bring valuable insight into legal mobilization, legal advocacy, and implementation of new laws in different jurisdictions in Mexico, an area that is understudied and with legal frameworks that raise new challenges within law and social sciences. By combining archival research with ethnographic methods such as participant-observation and iterative open ended interviews, this investigation will contribute to knowledge on legal mobilization when there are differences in law in neighboring jurisdictions. With regard to broader impacts, this project will allow the training of a graduate student, and provide feedback to community groups in Mexico concerning how women strategize when engaging legal regulation.