Dissertation research: The Interim Structures of Kinship. Kin relatedness among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

论文研究：亲属关系的临时结构。

• 批准号: 0549023
• 负责人: Veena Das
• 金额: $ 0.87万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0549023&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; research; Interim; Structures; Kinship.

Current studies show that despite the demand for return to homelands, and some spectacular examples of such repatriations, many refugee camps take on a semi-permanent quality. Thus, what was supposedly provisional becomes routine. However, views differ regarding ordinary patterns of sociality that emerge in such environments of prolonged uncertainty and instability, particularly with regard to the institution of the family. Some studies emphasize the role of the family in providing refugees with a sense of continuity, and a source of familiar ways of being in the world, in environments that refugees otherwise experience through powerlessness and referential instability. Such studies also describe the refugee family as a critical form of social and cultural capital: not only a source of actual or potential support, but also a generative chart for articulating flexible networks of relationships usable in the short or long term. However, other studies show that refugees often experience the work that goes into securing relations with relatives as very difficult to maintain in the long run. The allocation of meager and overstretched resources, or the dispersal of relatives in pursuit of the same goal of mutual preservation, may exacerbate tensions, create rifts and even lead to abandonment of family life altogether.This dissertation research by a cultural anthropology graduate student will examine Arab recasting of its family ties and values in Palestinian refugee camps in southern Lebanon. By living among the refugees and using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, the researcher will investigate the extent to which norms and dispositions pertaining to l-'aela, the family, are deployed in strategies for coping with the uncertainty of the refugee environment. It will also explore how the long-term exposure to a universe of uncertainty and restricted possibilities affect notions of the moral economy of the family and the naturalness of kinship ties, as well as the conditions in which the experience of prolonged uprooting produces innovation or resistance to innovation in family culture. This research will offer a significant contribution to the education of a graduate student and to three contemporary areas of social science inquiry: refugee studies, the anthropology of the new Arab family, and kinship studies. In addition, the research will contribute to a better understanding of the processes whereby the refugee environment bears upon refugees' long-term ability to form and maintain significant relationships of cooperation and care. This has policy implications for institutions charged with care of persistent refugee communities, both in the Middle East and elsewhere, including the United States.

目前的研究表明，尽管有返回家园的要求，以及一些这种遣返的惊人例子，但许多难民营具有半永久性的性质。因此，所谓的临时变成了例行公事。但是，对于在这种长期不确定和不稳定的环境中出现的普通社会模式，特别是在家庭制度方面，意见不同。一些研究强调家庭在为难民提供连续性感方面的作用，以及在难民因无能为力和参照不稳定而经历的环境中熟悉的生活方式的来源。这些研究还将难民家庭描述为社会和文化资本的一种重要形式：不仅是实际或潜在支持的来源，而且是一种生成图表，用于阐明短期或长期可用的灵活关系网络。然而，其他研究表明，难民经常经历与亲属建立关系的工作很难长期维持。分配微薄和过度紧张的资源，或为了追求相互保护的同一目标而分散亲属，可能会加剧紧张局势，造成裂痕，甚至导致完全放弃家庭生活。这篇由文化人类学研究生撰写的论文研究将考察黎巴嫩南部巴勒斯坦难民营中阿拉伯人对其家庭关系和价值观的重塑。通过在难民中生活并使用定量和定性相结合的方法，研究人员将调查与l-'aela（家庭）有关的规范和倾向在何种程度上被部署在应对难民环境不确定性的战略中。它还将探讨长期暴露在不确定和有限可能性的宇宙中如何影响家庭道德经济的概念和亲属关系的自然性，以及长期连根拔起的经验在家庭文化中产生创新或抵制创新的条件。这项研究将对研究生的教育和当代社会科学研究的三个领域作出重大贡献：难民研究、新阿拉伯家庭人类学和亲属研究。此外，这项研究将有助于更好地了解难民环境如何影响难民形成和维持重要的合作与照顾关系的长期能力。这对负责照顾中东和其他地区（包括美国）持续存在的难民社区的机构具有政策意义。