Doctoral Dissertation Reseach in Geography and Regional Science

这个博士论文项目将支持对在非洲国家苏丹自我定居的难民的调查，这些难民在没有国际援助的情况下重新定居。实地工作将侧重于阶级差别、确定主要生产方式、支助网络的经济性、社会融合和冲突以及遣返与永久重新安置。该项目的目的是评估大规模自我安置难民涌入后农村市场活动和劳资关系的变化。调查人员认为，大多数自我安置的难民从一种独立的自给自足的生产方式转向更多地参与当地经济，特别是在长期庇护期间。他们将审查这一命题和其他命题，以便更好地解释重新安置进程的变化性质及其与区域发展的关系。政变、反政变、革命、种族冲突和毁灭性的自然灾害在非洲和世界各地产生了相当大的难民人口。该项目将增进我们对苏丹和其他国家区域发展背景下难民重新安置问题的理解。它还将有助于我们了解技术援助政策和方案的有效性。

This doctoral dissertation project will support an investigation of self-settling refugees, those resettling without international aid, in the African nation of Sudan. Fieldwork will focus on class distinctions, the identification of primary mode of production, the economics of support networks, social integration and conflict, and repatriation versus permanent resettlement. The purpose of the project is to assess changes in rural market activity and labor relations after a major influx of self-settling refugees. The investigators believe that most self-settling refugees move from an independent mode of subsistence production to increased involvement in the local economy, particularly during long term asylum. They will examine this proposition and others in order to produce a better explanation of the changing nature of the resettlement process and its relationship to regional development. Coups, countercoups, revolutions, ethnic conflicts and devastating nature disasters have produced sizeable refugee populations in Africa and throughout the world. This project will increase our understanding of the problem of refugee resettlement in the context of regional development in Sudan and other nations. It will also contribute to our understanding of the effectiveness of technical aid policies and programs.