Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Political Economy of Migration and Identity

政治动荡、生态灾难和经济危机导致了移民的增加。这些群众运动对国家和区域政策以及对新来人口的经历和身份有什么影响？这个博士论文项目调查了试图排斥与整合新来人口的国家政策如何影响移民身份和经验，以及这如何反馈政策和国家身份。该项目测试和综合治理，移民和身份的理论，并支持人类学研究生的实证，科学的数据收集和分析方法的培训。这是一个多地点的人种学研究与工人阶级，新来的移民在两种情况下，对移民的态度和影响移民的政策不同。具体而言，博士生将在为工人阶级移民服务的组织中进行参与式观察，并与移民和其他影响移民和受移民影响的重要利益攸关方进行非正式的开放式和半结构化访谈。这些调查结果将通过对当地，主流和替代媒体的文本分析来补充，这些媒体提供了与移民相关的政策，支持和信息的具体文件。由此产生的研究结果将有助于更好地了解跨国移徙治理的动态和后果;融合与排斥移徙者的文化、经济和政治意义;以及大规模人口流动对地方，区域，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的知识优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。

Political turmoil, ecological disasters, and economic crises have led to an increase in migration. What impact do these mass movements have both on national and regional policies, and on the experiences and identity of newly arrived populations? This doctoral dissertation project investigates how national policies that attempt to exclude versus integrate newly arrived populations affect migrant identity and experience, and how this feeds back on policies and national identities. The project tests and synthesizes theories of governance, migration, and identity, and supports the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis.This is a multi-sited ethnographic study with working-class, newly arrived migrants in two contexts, where attitudes toward and policies affecting migrants differ. Specifically, the doctoral student will carry out participant observation in organizations serving working-class migrants and will conduct informal open-ended and semi-structured interviews with migrants and other important stakeholders affecting and affected by migration. These findings will be complemented by textual analysis of local, mainstream, and alternative presses that provide concrete documentation of migrant-relevant policies, supports, and information. The resulting research findings will allow for greater understanding of the dynamics and consequences of transnational migration governance; the cultural, economic, and political significance of integration versus exclusion for migrants; and the implications of mass population movements for identity at local, regional, and national levels.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.