DDIG: Constructing a British Mixed Race Identity: The Intersection of Nation, Citizenship and Belonging in Britain

研究生妮可·特鲁斯戴尔将在琳达·亨特博士的指导下，对种族认同、国家认同和公民身份之间的关系进行研究。她将研究英格兰长期居民和新移民多种多样和不断变化的种族和民族身份。她将特别关注这些身份认同与国籍观念的关系；它们与包括混合种族类别在内的官方新政府种族和民族类别体系的比较；以及最近的移民如何影响人们对身为英国人意味着什么的理解。移民使英国的种族和民族更加多样化。这位研究人员将在英国布里斯托尔这个中等城市的不同地点进行研究，包括购物区、酒吧、咖啡店和市场。她的方法将包括参与者观察、半结构化访谈和文本分析。她还将采访50人，以1)了解不同种族和民族背景的英国人如何理解他们在英国社会中的地位；2)研究不同种族群体，无论是个人还是集体，如何看待英国人的概念；以及3)考察种族和民族在构建英国国家身份中的使用和影响。这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于当前在全球移民增加的背景下围绕公民身份、种族和民族以及归属权问题展开的理论和政策辩论。许多关于种族的社会科学研究都是在美国完成的，这个项目将增加一个有用的比较案例。它还将为社会科学家的教育做出贡献。

Graduate student Nicole Truesdell, under the guidance of Dr. Linda Hunt, will undertake research on the relationship between racial identity, national identity, and citizenship. She will examine the varied and shifting racial and ethnic identities of long-time residents and new immigrants in England. She will focus particularly on how those identities are related to ideas of nationality; how they compare to the official new governmental racial and ethnic category system that includes a mixed-race category; and how recent immigration, which has made Britain more racially and ethnically heterogeneous, affects understandings of what it means to be British. The researcher will conduct her research in various locations, including shopping areas, pubs, coffee shops, and markets, throughout the middle-sized city of Bristol, England. Her methodologies will include participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and textual analysis. She will also interview 50 individuals to 1) understand how Britons of different racial and ethnic backgrounds understand their place within British society; 2) examine how different ethnic populations, both individually and collectively, think about notions of Britishness; and 3) examine the use and influence of race and ethnicity in the construction of British national identity.This research is important because it will contribute to current theoretical and policy debates centered on issues of citizenship, race and ethnicity, and rights of belonging in a context of increasing worldwide immigration. Much of the social science research on race has been done in the United States, and this project will add a useful comparative case. It also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.