Doctoral Dissertation Research: Intergenerational Transmission of Status in New Immigrant Families

博士论文研究：通过无证身份的代际传递PI：Shamus Khan，PhD；Co-PI：Nicol ValdezNSF摘要本项目是对在美国出生的公民青年的研究，以更好地了解公民身份的代际转移。该项目比较了来自无证和有证移民家庭的年轻人的经历。美国移民政策中根深蒂固的合法和非法二分法在概念上限制了对移民子女公民身份体验的多样性的理解。现在需要一项更细微的分析，以进一步揭示父母无证身份对他们在美国出生的拥有公民身份的子女的代际影响。这类研究为理解父母的社会背景对子女的代际传递提供了新的方法，并深入了解了当地环境如何调解和塑造移民出身的年轻人的生活经历。这项研究有可能帮助政策制定者、教育工作者和更广泛的公众理解无证身份对后代的社会影响。这项比较定性的研究将询问与居住在纽约的墨西哥裔美国家庭的法律地位有关的群体内差异。指导这项研究的假设是父母？无证身份创造了一种可以继承或传递给后代的社会背景。对无证家庭和有记录家庭的访谈，再加上对这些家庭的人种学观察，将为无证家庭在日常生活中采用的策略提供新的见解。这项研究采取了多层次的生态学方法，通过收集个人和背景层面的观察数据。在个人层面上，这项研究将对无证和有证的墨西哥裔美国父母养家糊口的日常生活进行描述性描述。在背景层面上，这项研究将详细说明无证父母及其子女因社区、学校和社交网络等因素而产生的高度可变的经历。鉴于无证父母的经历往往受到当地因素的影响，纽约州关于移民家庭的政策可以让人们深入了解各州如何帮助缓解无证父母的负面影响。更广泛地说，创造一个更有能力和受过更多教育的移民出身的青年人口的赌注很高，他们未来的成就确实关系到我们国家的竞争优势。

Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Intergenerational Transmission Through Undocumented Status PI: Shamus Khan, PhD; Co-PI: Nicol ValdezNSF Abstract This project is a study of U.S.-born, citizen youth to better understand the intergenerational transfer of citizenship status. The project compares the experience of youth from undocumented and documented immigrant families. The legal-illegal dichotomy ingrained in U.S. immigration policies is conceptually limiting for understanding the diversity of citizenship experiences for the children of immigrants. A more nuanced analysis is now required to further uncover the generational effects of parental undocumented status on their U.S. born children with citizenship. This type of research offers new ways of understanding the intergenerational transmission of parents' social background to their children and develops insight into how local context can mediate and shape the lived experiences of immigrant origin youth. This research holds the potential to help policy makers, educators, and the wider public understand the social implications of undocumented status for future generations. This comparative qualitative study will interrogate intra-group differences related to the legal status of Mexican-American families residing in New York City. The hypothesis guiding this research is that parents? undocumented status creates a social context that is inheritable or passed on to subsequent generations. Interviews with both undocumented and documented families coupled with ethnographic observations of a subset of these families will provide new insights into the strategies undocumented families employ in their daily lives. This study takes a multi-level ecological approach by gathering observations across both the individual and contextual level. On the individual level, the study will provide a descriptive portrait of the everyday lives of undocumented and documented Mexican-American parents as they raise their families. On a contextual level, this study will detail the highly variable experiences of undocumented parents and their children resulting from factors such as neighborhoods, schools, and social networks. Given that the undocumented experience is often shaped by the local factors, New York's policies on immigrant families can offer insight into how states can help ameliorate the negative impact of an undocumented parent. More broadly, the stakes are high for creating a more empowered and educated immigrant origin youth population, whose future achievements do matter in aiding the competitive advantage of our nation.