Doctoral Dissertation Research: Immigrant Integration and Gender in the Everyday: Constructing Spaces of Citizenship in Berlin

博士论文研究：日常生活中的移民融合和性别：在柏林构建公民空间

• 批准号: 0726769
• 负责人: Helga Leitner
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2009-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0726769&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Immigrant; Integration

In recent years, immigrant integration has become a central public policy concern in many immigrant-receiving countries. Some European states currently are dismantling their existing multicultural policies and are adopting new policies designed to better facilitate the integration of immigrants into the host society. Researchers have analyzed the changes in immigrant integration and citizenship policies at the national scale, but work on the implementation of these policies through local integration projects in impacted neighborhoods has been missing. Also neglected has been the role of immigrants in the implementation of local integration projects. This doctoral dissertation research project will examine the goals, work, and outcomes of local integration projects in Marzahn, a neighborhood in Berlin that has a high concentration of recent ethnic German migrants from the former Soviet Union. The doctoral candidate will seek answers to the following questions: (1) How do the integration goals and the underlying concepts of citizenship of local projects differ from national and provincial integration policies? (2) To what extent and how do immigrants participating in local integration projects modify project goals and outcomes? (3) How does the engagement in integration projects differ between immigrant men and women, and why? The student will use multiple methods to answer these questions. Analysis of national and provincial integration policy documents and expert interviews with local policy makers and project leaders will provide data regarding the differences between national, and provincial, and local integration objectives. Participant observation, focus groups, in-depth interviews, and immigrant diaries will provide data regarding how and why immigrants participate in integration projects and how they understand their own integration goals. The student hypothesizes that national and provincial integration objectives and their underlying conceptions of citizenship often are challenged and actively amended in the process of implementation by local institutions. In addition, she suspects that because women migrants participate in local integration activities more actively than men, they shape these projects to suit their distinct needs.The results of this research will fill gaps in knowledge regarding the efficacy of local integration projects as well as on how local integration institutions and immigrants are actively involved in the transformation of integration objectives. Analysis of gender differences in project participation will provide insights into how immigrant men and women adapt to their new communities in different ways. Such insights are important for the formulation of gender-sensitive integration policies, a growing field of public policy in all major immigrant-destination countries, including the U.S. Furthermore, this study will bring scholarship on the politics of immigration integration into conversations regarding with theoretical perspectives on citizenship. Finally, by focusing on recent ethnic German immigrants from the former Soviet Union, the project it will provide insights into the specific integration challenges of migrants who have become citizens but remain culturally and socio-economically marginal. Until recently the integration needs of such naturalized migrants have received little attention and consideration in integration policy making. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.

近年来，在许多接受移民的国家，移民融合已成为公共政策的中心问题。一些欧洲国家目前正在废除其现有的多元文化政策，并正在采取旨在更好地促进移民融入东道国社会的新政策。研究人员分析了全国范围内移民融合和公民身份政策的变化，但通过受影响社区的地方融合项目来实施这些政策的工作一直缺失。移民在执行当地融合项目方面的作用也被忽视。这一博士论文研究项目将考察马尔扎恩当地融合项目的目标、工作和成果，马尔扎恩是柏林的一个社区，最近来自前苏联的德裔移民高度集中在这里。博士生将寻求以下问题的答案：(1)当地项目的融合目标和公民身份的基本概念与国家和省级融合政策有何不同？(2)参与当地融合项目的移民在多大程度上以及如何改变项目目标和结果？(3)移民男性和女性在参与融合项目方面有何不同，为什么？学生将使用多种方法回答这些问题。对国家和省一体化政策文件的分析以及对地方政策制定者和项目领导人的专家访谈将提供有关国家、省和地方一体化目标之间差异的数据。参与者观察、焦点小组、深入访谈和移民日记将提供关于移民如何以及为什么参与融合项目以及他们如何理解自己的融合目标的数据。学生假设，国家和省级一体化目标及其公民身份的基本概念在当地机构的实施过程中经常受到挑战和积极修改。此外，她怀疑，由于女性移民比男性更积极地参与当地融合活动，她们根据不同的需要制定这些项目。这项研究的结果将填补关于当地融合项目的效力以及关于当地融合机构和移民如何积极参与融合目标转变的知识空白。对项目参与中的性别差异进行分析将有助于深入了解移民男子和妇女如何以不同方式适应他们的新社区。这些见解对于制定对性别敏感的融合政策非常重要，这是包括美国在内的所有主要移民目的地国家日益增长的公共政策领域。此外，这项研究将把移民融合政治的学术纳入关于公民身份的理论视角的对话中。最后，通过关注最近来自前苏联的德裔移民，该项目将深入了解已成为公民但在文化和社会经济上仍处于边缘地位的移民面临的具体融合挑战。直到最近，这类归化移民的融入需要在制定融入政策时很少受到重视和考虑。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立研究事业。