Doctoral Dissertation Research: Contrasting Regimes of Labor Migration

这个项目调查了全球生产和区域发展的压力和环境如何在一个社会中创造了不同的劳动力迁移制度。它使用一个战略案例，考察了各种国家和非国家行为者如何管理与全球海产品生产和区域经济一体化倡议有关的劳动力迁移。通过研究当地进程和更广泛的压力之间的联系，该项目促进了关于移民治理、劳动力的社会再生产以及国家对区域和全球进程的影响的社会科学知识。数据将通过参与者观察和访谈收集。将通过比较两种劳动力迁移制度进行分析：(1)在海产品生产的内陆地区推进正式客工制度的正规化制度，以及(2)在与区域相连的边境地区保持灵活和空间受限的劳动力的灵活遏制制度。将就每个地点的做法与当地官员和工人进行访谈。来自其他行业、原产地和场地的工人也将接受采访，以提供比较。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。

This project investigates how pressures and circumstances of global production and regional development create contrasting regimes of labor migration within a single society. Using a strategic case, it examines how a variety of state and non-state actors govern labor migration in relation to global seafood production and regional economic integration initiatives. By examining the link between local processes and wider pressures, the project advances social scientific knowledge of migration governance, the social reproduction of labor, and state influence vis-à-vis regional and global processes.Data will be collected through participant observation and interviews. Analysis will be through comparison of two cases of labor migration regimes: (1) a regime of regularization that advances a formal guestworker system in an interior site of seafood production and (2) a regime of flexible containment that maintains flexible and spatially-confined labor in a regionally-linked border zone. Interviews will be conducted with local officials and workers about practices in each site. Workers from another industry, origin, and site will be interviewed as well to provide comparison.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.