The effects on families and communities of reintegrating migrant youth

这项研究将审查移徙儿童重新融入家庭和社区的影响。 通过采用纵向办法和混合方法，调查结果应能产生关于儿童迁移和接收政策和做法的知识，为地方和国际儿童保护和人权提供证据。 该研究将有助于关于移徙、重返社会和法律影响的学术研究，该项目涉及三个学术领域：关于可驱逐性的移徙文献、青年人类学和冲突后国家的社会历史文献。虽然先前的研究将儿童视为他人照顾的接受者，将移徙者视为流动中的个人，但本项目通过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影响，对这种方法提出了挑战。该研究以家庭为主要分析单位，探讨青年重返社会对家庭、同龄群体和社区的影响。 首席调查员接触了在美国的移徙青年，并将在他们与危地马拉的家人重新融合时跟踪他们。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.