This Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) from the Social Science Research Council and MIGRINTER, a research center of CNRS at the University of Poitiers enables Amy to participate in the 2012 DPDF program within the field of New Approaches to Transnationalism and Migratory Circulation, led by Professors Khachig Tölöyan, Emmanuel Ma Mung, and Thomas LaCroix, and to participate in two dissertation proposal development workshops in June and September 2012.