Doctoral Dissertation Research: Transnational Family Movements

对安全的担忧日益影响着当地和跨国的辩论。这项由该奖项支持的研究考察了这些辩论如何影响对家庭角色的理解。家庭文化通常被理解为植根于特定的做法和地方，但在危机情况下使家庭证券化的努力可能具有共同的特点。因此，要了解美国正在发生的事情，需要有一个比较的视角。该项目利用人种学的独特能力，将深度倾听与社会分析相结合，以更好地理解促使以家庭为重点的安全行动的概念化和关切。研究将主要在墨西哥进行，前往近年来出现安全危机和重大家庭行动的其他地点的旅行时间较短。研究人员将通过档案研究来收集数据，以追踪这些运动的历史；对媒体账户的文本分析；在多个地点和不同组织规模的参与者观察；访谈；社会网络分析；关于家庭的思想在全球流通的地理信息系统和时间线地图。这些数据将被分析，以了解个别家庭迁徙案例的历史、文化和地缘政治意义，以及它们如何与更大的跨国发展联系起来。这一裁决反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Security concerns increasingly shape local as well as transnational debates. The research supported by this award examines how these debates affect understandings of the role of the family. Family cultures are usually understood to be rooted in particular practices and places, but efforts to securitize the family in crisis contexts may take on common characteristics. Therefore, to understand what is happening in the United States, a comparative perspective is required. This project leverages ethnography's unique capacity for combining deep listening with social analysis to better understand the conceptualizations and concerns that motivate family-focused security movements.The research will take place primarily in Mexico, with shorter trips to other sites where security crises and significant family movements have emerged in recent years. The researcher will collect data through archival research to trace the history of these movements; textual analyses of media accounts; participant observation at multiple sites and across organizational scales; interviews; social network analysis; and GIS and timeline mapping of the global circulation of ideas about the family. These data will be analyzed to understand the historical, cultural, and geopolitical significance of individual family movement cases and how they connect to larger transnational developments.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.