講題：Reconceptualizing Context: Methodological Advances in Studying Migrant Assimilation and Dissimilation in Gender Role Ideologies
講者：吳家裕 Karl Ka U Ng（加拿大聖瑪麗大學社會學系助理教授）
主持人：蘇國賢（台大社會系教授）
時間：2025/12/17（三） 12:30-14:00（前三十位入場報到聽眾可領取餐盒一份，敬請準時入座）
地點：台大社會與社工系館R319
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演講簡介
本研究重新探討同化研究中的長期爭論，從理論與方法兩方面重新評估「原生國」與「目的地國」的社會脈絡如何共同形塑移民在性別角色意識形態上的同化與異化軌跡。我批判性地檢視現有兩種主流的「脈絡化」研究策略：一是將族群或國籍視為分類變項的名目取向，二是以國家平均值作為文化規範的指標。這兩種方法都無法充分捕捉移民態度環境的複雜性。本研究提出新的視角，主張應將移民的態度置於其在原生與目的地社會中相似背景個體所組成的社會網絡之中。研究使用歐洲社會調查（European Social Survey）與世界價值觀調查（World Values Survey）的資料，並採用結合多重插補與交叉階層多層模型的創新方法。此方法能更準確地錨定移民所處的社會脈絡，揭示同化與異化其實是漸進且網絡化的過程。
This paper revisits a long-standing debate in assimilation research by offering a theoretical and methodological reassessment of how both origin and destination contexts shape migrants’ trajectories of assimilation and dissimilation in gender role ideologies. I critically evaluate two dominant approaches to contextualizing migrant attitudes: the nominal approach, which treats group or nationality as a categorical variable, and the average-variable approach, which uses national-level averages as measures of cultural norms. Both, I argue, fall short of capturing the complexity of migrants’ attitudinal environments. In this study, I propose a new perspective that situates migrants’ attitudes within the social networks of individuals with similar backgrounds in both origin and destination societies. Using data from the European Social Survey and the World Values Survey, I employ an innovative methodological strategy that combines multiple imputations with cross-classified multilevel models. By anchoring estimates in migrants’ embedded social contexts, this approach offers greater precision and reveals assimilation and dissimilation as gradual, networked processes.
講者介紹
吳家裕現任加拿大聖瑪麗大學（Saint Mary’s University）社會學系助理教授，曾任美國佛羅里達州史德森大學（Stetson University）社會學與人類學系助理教授。他於2023年在加拿大麥基爾大學（McGill University）獲得社會學博士學位，並在五年內完成學業。其研究關注移民、家庭與人口等議題，探討文化與價值如何在移民與難民家庭中傳遞與轉化，並發展創新方法以理解移民的同化與異化過程。其研究成果發表於多個國際期刊，包括 Socius、Journal of Marriage and Family、Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies、International Migration、Population Research and Policy Review、Demographic Research、Social Indicators Research、Comparative Sociology、以及 Canadian Review of Sociology。
Ka U (Karl) Ng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Saint Mary’s University. Before joining SMU, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Stetson University in Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from McGill University in 2023, completing his degree in five years. Karl’s research focuses on migration, family, and demography, examining how culture and values are transmitted and transformed within migrant and refugee families. His research has appeared in leading journals such as Socius, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Migration, Population Research and Policy Review, Demographic Research, Social Indicators Research, Comparative Sociology, and Canadian Review of Sociology.
