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Title of Project: A new age for Rosie the riveter: Filipina factory workers in Taiwan
Date of appointment to UNCG faculty: Aug 2006 Current rank: Assistant Professor
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Does the proposal involve research with human participants, animals, radioactive or hazardous materials that
require review by a designated individual, office, or committee?
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appropriate committee. Proposals marked “pending” with no date will be returned.
Humans (IRB) _September 15, 2006__
Dates of previous intramural support and submission of final report (last 5 years).
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Summer Excellence Research Grant Proposal
Section A. Not Applicable.
Section B. Proposal Description
Interview Protocol
These questions will be modified as needed to maintain the natural flow of the interview and to explore topics which arise in
the course of the conversation. They are a general guide to direct the conversation. Probes will be revised as needed to
encourage elaboration on answers. If a participant goes off topic, but is providing useful content, probing and follow-up
will continue as needed then a redirect to original script may be used. If off topic conversation does not appear relevant, a
casual redirect to original script will be made. Interview will be video recorded. Notes of most salient points will be made
during interview. Notes will be used to help guide in where to look on recording for respondents’ verbatim answers.
II. Statement of Purpose and Introduction
Explanation to the participant who I am and why I am doing this research (to better understand the impact of globalized
labor markets on families and individuals).
III. Consent
Go over consent form with interviewee. Verify selection under confidentiality section. Review photo/video release. Verbally
ask permission to video record the interview. Explain that recordings will be used for public and academic airing as well as
analysis and academic writings.
V. Migration Experiences
Tell me a little about being an OFW (overseas Filipino worker)
1. Why did you seek work overseas?
2. How long in Taiwan?
3. Job that they currently hold?
4. Have they been here before?
5. Other migration experiences?
a) Other countries
b) Year(s) migrated
How did you choose to come to Taiwan rather that another country?
6. Have other family members been here?
7. Other friends?
8. Are they here now?
9. Did they come together with someone?
Date:________/________/_________
VI. Placement – Broker System
Tell me about the Placement agency in the Philippines…
1. How much was the placement fee?
2. Did you borrow money to come? From whom?
3. How did you choose the placement agency?
4. Were there any difficulties?
Tell me now about the Taiwanese broker?
5. How much do you pay the broker monthly?
6. What does the broker do?
VII. Work Life
Tell me about your employer?
1. What are the terms of the contract?
2. How many days off?
3. Pay?
4. Bonuses?
5. Overtime
6. Healthcare? Etc.
Tell me about the work you do?
7. What schedule?
8. What is a typical day like?
9. Managers?
10. Problems?
VIII. Life outside of work:
Let’s move on to what you do when not a work… what do you do?
1. What do you do in their free time? Days off?
2. Do you play sports on a team, go to any group activities, take classes or any other formal activity?
3. What is the role of the church or other institutions?
4. Were they religious before coming here?
Where do you live?
5. Conditions of dorms/ apartments?
6. Curfew?
7. How many people per room?
8. Rent?
9. Other charges?
Friends?
11. Taiwanese or Filipino or other migrant groups?
Romance?
12. Partnerships?
13. To what end?
14. Marriage?
X. Home contact
How often are you in contact with friends/ family at home?
1. 1. What mode of communication: internet, phone, text message, mail, etc?
2. 2. Frequency of contact?
3. 3. Duration of contact?
EXTRAMURAL FUNDING - Information must be provided about (Part A) planned proposal submissions and, if you have previously received
a New Faculty or Regular Faculty Research Grants or a Summer Excellence Research Award, information must be provided about (Part B) previous
proposal submissions. Failure to provide this information will result in the application not being reviewed. The Office of Sponsored Programs
can assist with finding appropriate extramural funding agencies.
Part A – Planned Proposal Submissions
1. ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships
Funding agency:
ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships
Office of Fellowships and Grants
ACLS
633 3rd Avenue
New York, NY 10017-6795
email: grants@acls.org
fax: (212) 949-8058
Date on which it will be submitted:
September 27, 2007 (Based on 2006 deadline)
Link to intramural funding request.
The International and Area Studies Fellowships provide salary replacement to help scholars devote
six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing with the ultimate goal of the
project being a major piece of scholarly work. Data gathered during the Summer of 2007 will be
combined with that of interviews conducted in 2002 to form the basis of a book-length work or
series of articles on the feminization of labor migration in Southeast Asia.
2. NSF Social, Behavioral & Economic (SBE) Regular Research Award
Funding agency:
The National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia 22230
Patricia E. White
pwhite@nsf.gov
(703) 292-8762
Date on which it will be submitted:
August 15, 2007
Link to intramural funding request.
Proposal to NSF will be to develop cross-cultural study of the role of the receiving context on
female labor migration. Summer 2007 study will serve as pilot material for eventual study to
include other Southeast Asian receiving areas (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan).
Funded Grants
Wayne State University Evaluation Research:
Academic Research:
4. CURRICULUM VITAE-
Education
Doctorate of Philosophy - Sociology 2004
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State
University
• Dissertation Title: “Transnationalizing the self :marginalized Filipino
labor migrants in Taiwan”
• Concentrations: Globalization; Migration; Methods.
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