The effects on families and communities of reintegrating migrant youth

这项研究将考察流动儿童重新融入家庭和社区的影响。使用纵向方法和混合方法，结果应产生关于驱逐和接收儿童的政策和做法的知识，为当地和国际上的儿童保护和人权提供证据。这项研究将促进关于移民、重新融入社会和法律影响的学术研究。该项目涉及三个学术领域：关于可移送的移民文学、青年人类学和冲突后国家的社会历史文学。虽然以前的奖学金将儿童视为他人照顾的接受者，并将移民视为流动的个人，但本项目挑战了这种方法，假定儿童是家庭结构的一部分，他们的返回对他们、他们的家庭和他们的社区产生了影响。这项研究以家庭为主要分析单位，考察了青年重新融入社会对家庭、同龄人群体和社区的影响。首席调查员接触了在美国的移民青年，并将在他们与危地马拉的家人重新团聚时对他们进行跟踪。这项研究将采用家庭调查、民族志访谈、参与者观察和个人民族志。

This study will examine the effects of reintegrating migrant children into their families and communities. Using a longitudinal approach and mixed methods, the results should generate knowledge regarding the policies and practices of removal and reception of children, providing evidence to inform child protection and human rights locally and internationally. The research will contribute to scholarship on migration, reintegration, and the effects of law.This project engages three areas of scholarship: the migration literature on deportability, the anthropology of youth, and socio-historical literature of post-conflict nations. Although prior scholarship has seen children as the recipients of others' care, and migrants as individuals in motion, the present project challenges this approach by positing that children are part of a family structure and that their return has effects on them, their families, and their communities. Using the household as the primary unit of analysis, the study examines the effects of youth reintegration on families, peer groups, and communities. The principal investigator has had access to migrating youth in the United States and will follow them as they are reintegrated with their families in Guatemala. The research will employ a household survey, ethnographic interviews, participant observation, and individual ethnographies.