Doctoral Dissertation Research: Labor Dynamics, Migration, and Intergenerational Community Networks

社会和历史因素如何引导移民？该项目对研究生进行严格、实证的数据收集和分析方法的培训，探索移民如何通过相互关联的流动历史形成和维持社区。在追踪南南移民路线时，研究人员旨在确定移民被引导到不同地方从事特定形式劳动的历史过程。除了为人类学研究生提供严格数据收集和分析的科学方法方面的培训提供资金外，该项目还将通过向致力于制定有效和可持续的移徙政策最佳做法的组织广泛传播其研究结果来提高科学理解。在哥伦比亚大学Naor Ben-Yehoyada博士的监督下，Anna Reumert将探索哪些因素影响了全球南部未被充分研究的移徙路线上移徙工人的融入或边缘化。通过与黎巴嫩代际苏丹移民社区的实地工作，该项目探索了通过移民历史形成、谈判和争夺身份的过程。该项目询问这些流动人口的经历可以揭示哪些关于年龄、性别、民族和其他形式的文化认同和等级的新信息。研究人员将采用一系列人种学数据收集和分析方法，如文化遗址的观察研究、对农民工的访谈、焦点群体和生活史，以绘制代际社区网络。该项目推进了人类学和其他与移民和劳动力相关的社会科学理论。这一奖项反映了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。

How do social and historical factors direct migration? This project, which trains a graduate student in methods of rigorous, empirical data collection and analysis, explores how migrants form and sustain communities through histories of connected movement. In tracking a South-South migration route, the researcher aims to ascertain the historical processes by which migrants are channeled into specific forms of labor in different places. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in scientific methods of rigorous data collection and analysis, the project would improve scientific understanding by broadly disseminating its findings to organizations invested in formulating best practices for effective and sustainable migration policies.Anna Reumert, under the supervision of Dr. Naor Ben-Yehoyada of Columbia University will explore what factors influence the integration or marginalization of migrant workers across an understudied migration route in the Global South. Through fieldwork with an intergenerational Sudanese migrant community in Lebanon, the project explores the processes by which identities are formed, negotiated and contested through histories of migration. The project asks what new information the experiences of this migrant population can reveal about age, gender, ethnic, and other forms of cultural identity and hierarchy. The researcher will employ a range of ethnographic data collection and analytical methods such observational research at cultural sites, interviews with migrant workers, focus groups, and life histories, to map intergenerational communal networks. The project advances anthropological and other social scientific theory related to migration and labor.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.