Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Mongolian-Kazakh Returnees: Repatriation, Citizenship, and National Belonging In Kazakhstan

博士论文改进补助金：蒙古族哈萨克归国者：哈萨克斯坦的遣返、公民​​身份和民族归属

• 批准号: 0818324
• 负责人: Alaina Lemon
• 金额: $ 0.6万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0818324&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Mongolian

Graduate student, Anna Genina, working under the direction of Dr. Alaina Lemon, will undertake research on the growing new phenomenon of return migration. The study will be carried out in Kazakhstan, where the government of Kazakhstan officially encourages repatriation. However, the return of Kazakhs from Mongolia to their historic homeland has had unexpected consequences, because state policies have not always connected well with local priorities. This situation has provoked radical new discussions of what constitutes ethnicity, belonging, and citizenship, making it an excellent opportunity for a micro-scale examination of return migration and its social and political effects. In Kazakhstan, conceptions and practices of citizenship are illuminated through analysis of discursive constructions of kinship and hospitality, which are regarded as essential parts of Kazakh nomadic heritage. Therefore, the researcher will use the methods of both cultural and linguistic anthropology to explore conceptions of kinship and hospitality and their relation to ideas and practices of citizenship and national belonging. She will do participant observation, living with a local family and accomanying other returnees on visits back to Mongolia. She will conduct interviews with new returnees, other local residents, and officials; collect migration and life histories; and monitor and analyze media accounts. This research is important because return migration is found throughout the world. Social science can help to explain the relationship between locally situated identifications and practices and how those connect or fail to connect with the symbolic and practical emplacement of people within larger frameworks, such as citizenship, nationhood, and state. The research also will contribute to the education of a graduate student.

研究生安娜·吉尼娜在Alaina Lemon博士的指导下，将对日益增长的返回移民新现象进行研究。这项研究将在哈萨克斯坦进行，哈萨克斯坦政府在那里正式鼓励遣返。然而，哈萨克人从蒙古返回他们的历史故乡产生了意想不到的后果，因为国家政策并不总是与当地的优先事项很好地联系在一起。这种情况引发了关于什么是族裔、归属感和公民身份的激进新讨论，使其成为对回返移徙及其社会和政治影响进行微观审查的绝佳机会。在哈萨克斯坦，通过对亲属关系和好客的话语结构的分析，阐明了公民身份的概念和实践，这些被视为哈萨克游牧民族遗产的重要组成部分。因此，研究者将使用文化人类学和语言人类学的方法来探索亲属关系和好客的概念及其与公民身份和国家归属感的思想和实践的关系。她将进行参与者观察，与当地家庭住在一起，并安排其他归国人员回蒙古访问。她将对新归国的人、其他当地居民和官员进行采访；收集移民和生活史；并监控和分析媒体报道。这项研究很重要，因为回返移民在世界各地都有发现。社会科学可以帮助解释当地身份和习俗之间的关系，以及这些身份和习俗如何与人们在公民身份、民族身份和国家等更大框架内的象征性和实际安置联系在一起或未能联系起来。这项研究也将有助于研究生的教育。