Migrant communities: Effects of demographic characteristics on place making under uncertain timelines

在人口移动的和定居时间不确定的情况下，如何建立持久的社区？这些过程如何根据性别、种族、年龄和文件状态而有所不同？在不同的个人和背景情况下，移动的社区融入周围人群的程度如何？移徙率正在上升，越来越多的妇女和其他历来代表性不足的群体越来越多地加入移徙行列。该项目解决这些重要问题，以了解，使用文化人类学的理论和方法，如何移民与非常不同的个人情况和不同的社会背景，使社区和融入周围的人口。它支持STEM领域代表性不足的学者，并培训研究生。其结果将广泛传播给学术界和非学术界的受众，包括努力解决如何最好地支持移民社区问题的决策者。该项目使用交叉特征理论，调查围绕不同背景下不同移民的等待和定居经历的假设。使用人种学方法，包括参与观察，访谈和photovoice，假设地址1）移民的人口特征如何影响社区融合的经验; 2）男性和女性如何建立社会支持系统和获得服务的差异; 3）与种族身份有关的经验如何影响移民融合在不同的背景下。对男女社交网络差异的关注提供了一种互补的、以移民为中心的方法，允许对不稳定环境下家庭、亲属关系和社会生活形式的变化有更细致的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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。

How are durable communities made when populations are mobile and experience uncertain settlement timelines? How do these processes differ according to gender, ethnicity, age, and documentation status? How well are mobile communities integrated into surrounding populations under varying individual and contextual circumstances? Rates of migration are increasing, with increasing numbers of women and other historically under-represented groups increasingly joining migrant journeys. This project tackles these important questions to understand, using theory and methods from cultural anthropology, how migrants with very different personal circumstances and in different societal contexts make communities and integrate with surrounding populations. It supports under-represented scholars in STEM and trains graduate students. Its results will be disseminated widely to academic and non-academic audiences, including policy makers grappling with questions of how best to support migrant communities. The project uses theories of intersecting characteristics to investigate hypotheses surrounding the experiences of waiting and settlement among diverse migrants in different settings. Using ethnographic methods involving participant observation, interviews, and photovoice, hypotheses address 1) how the demographic characteristics of migrants affect community incorporation experiences; 2) differences in how men and women establish social support systems and access services; and 3) how experiences related to racial identity affect migrant integration in different contexts. The focus on differences in men’s and women’s social networks offers a complementary, migrant-centered approach allowing for a more nuanced understanding of variation in forms of home, kinship, and social life under precarious circumstances.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.