Doctoral Dissertation Research: Remittance Management During Disaster Recovery

本博士论文的研究改进项目分析了不同的社区成员在决策中的作用有关汇款分配在灾难恢复。 人口的跨界移徙伴随着资金（汇款）和通信的反向流动，使移徙者在目的地国及其原籍国的家庭得以维持。 移徙者的汇款通常用于满足基本消费需求以及教育和住房投资，但它们也是社区在自然灾害发生后调动的一项关键资源。 虽然人们普遍认为，汇款是家庭收入的重要来源，也是社区发展项目的贡献者，特别是在灾后恢复期间，但人们对妇女在灾后恢复期间如何使用汇款的决策中的作用了解较少。 该项目将使人们了解如何在地方一级组织汇款管理，特别是妇女在决策中的作用，并有可能使政策更加适应妇女在汇款管理中的重要作用，特别是在灾后恢复情况下。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该项目将提供支持，使一个有前途的博士生。该项目增进了关于全球移徙和资金流动如何依赖和重新塑造家庭网络和当地社区的知识。 它将通过回答两个中心研究问题来做到这一点。 首先，评估社区如何在其他财政和资源投入的情况下管理汇款，特别是在因自然灾害而面临压力时。 第二，它调查了关于汇款的谈判如何改变妇女的生活。 具体而言，本研究将分析（1）自然灾害后汇款的具体管理方式;（2）女性如何参与家庭和社区层面的汇款管理;（3）汇款使用的协商过程如何改变女性在社区中的责任、劳动和社会参与。 该博士生将结合联合收割机与定性方法，如档案研究，参与观察，和半结构化的采访在墨西哥的地震后恢复的案例研究，瓦哈卡的全面住户调查。 该研究将对性别、劳动力和公民权之间的关系提供新的理论见解，并对家庭网络和当地社区在灾后情况下如何动员全球移民和汇款流动产生新的发现。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This doctoral dissertation research improvement project analyzes the roles of different community's members in the decision-making about remittance allocations during disaster recovery. Human migration flows across borders is matched by financial (remittances) and communication counter-flows that sustain both the migrant at their destination and their families at their origin. Remittances sent by migrants are commonly used to meet basic consumption needs and for investment in education and housing, but they are also a key resource that communities mobilize in the aftermath of natural disasters. While it is generally understood that remittances constitute an important source of household income and contributor to community development projects, particularly during disaster recovery, what is less understood is the role of women in the decision-making about the use of remittances during such recoveries. This project will inform the understandings of how remittance management is organized at the local level, specifically women's roles in decision-making, and has the potential to inform policy to be more attuned to the significance of the role of women in remittance management, especially in post-disaster recovery situations. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide support to enable a promising doctoral student. This project advances knowledge on how global migration and finance flows rely upon and rework family networks and local communities. It will do so by answering two central research questions. First, it assesses how a community manages remittances in the context of other financial and resources inputs, especially when stressed due to a natural disaster. Second, it investigates how negotiations over remittances are transforming the lives of women. Specifically, this research project will analyze (1) the precise ways that remittances are managed after a natural disaster; (2) how women participate in remittance management at the household and community level; and (3) how the process of negotiating the use of remittances is transforming the responsibilities, labor, and social involvement of women in communities. The doctoral student will combine a comprehensive household survey with qualitative methods such as archival research, participant observation, and semi-structured interviews in a case study of the post-earthquake recovery in Oaxaca, Mexico. The research will contribute new theoretical insights on the relationship between gender, labor, and citizenship as well as generate new findings on how global migration and remittance flows are mobilized by family networks and local communities in post-disaster situations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.