Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Immigration, Citizenship, and Violence in Post-Colonial Nation States

博士论文改进补助金：后殖民民族国家的移民、公民身份和暴力

• 批准号: 0819059
• 负责人: Damani Partridge
• 金额: $ 1.38万
• 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 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0819059&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Immigration

Graduate student Anneeth Hundle, under the guidance of Dr. Damani Partridge, will undertake research on the factors that affect immigrant political participation in post-colonial nation states. The research is motivated by three primary concerns: first, to understand how the experience of colonialism affects later citizenship; second, to analyze the relationship between nation, violence, and migration; and third, to investigate systematically the mutually constitutive relationships between native and immigrant populations in post-colonial contexts.The research will be carried out in Kampala, Uganda, and will focus primarily on women. The researcher will employ multiple ethnographic research methods, particularly participant-observation and semi-structured interviews. In addition to participating in and documenting interethnic relations in daily community life, the researcher will focus intensive data collection on a sample of 30 women drawn from three different groups differentially placed in relation to Asian immigration and citizen rights. These three groups are: African feminist-activists who have represented cases of violence against Asian-Indian women; with new migrant Asian-Indian women from India; and elite Ugandan Asian women with colonial ties to Uganda. The researcher also will collect oral immigration and histories, do media analysis of newspapers and feminist literature, and collect and analyze spatial data for urban Kampala. The research is important because it will help to understand the factors that produce violence in diaspora communities in post-colonial settings. Because such violence is increasingly common in the world, findings will contribute not only to social science theory but also to improving social and political policies. In addition, funding this project contributes to the education of a social scientist.

研究生Anneeth Hundle，博士的指导下。该研究的动机是三个主要问题：第一，了解殖民主义的经验如何影响后来的公民身份;第二，分析民族，暴力和移民之间的关系;第三，系统地调查在后殖民语境中的土著和移民人口之间的相互构成关系。研究人员将采用多种民族志研究方法，特别是参与者观察和半结构化访谈。除了参与和记录日常社区生活中的种族间关系外，研究人员还将集中精力收集来自三个不同群体的30名妇女的样本数据，这些群体在亚洲移民和公民权利方面存在差异。这三个群体是：代表暴力侵害亚洲印度妇女案件的非洲女权主义活动家;来自印度的新移民亚洲印度妇女;以及与乌干达有殖民关系的乌干达亚洲精英妇女。研究人员还将收集口头移民和历史，做报纸和女权主义文学的媒体分析，并收集和分析城市坎帕拉的空间数据。这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于了解在后殖民环境中产生散居社区暴力的因素。由于这种暴力在世界上越来越普遍，研究结果不仅有助于社会科学理论，而且有助于改善社会和政治政策。此外，资助该项目有助于社会科学家的教育。