A Multi-Sited Social Science Analysis of African Diaspora Engagement in Homeland Health

对非洲侨民参与家园健康的多地点社会科学分析

• 批准号: 0925671
• 负责人: Joyce Millen
• 金额: $ 44.21万
• 依托单位: Willamette University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0925671&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Multi; Sited; Social; Science; Analysis

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Dr. Joyce V. Millen of Willamette University will undertake a three-year research and educational program to advance understanding of African diaspora-driven health philanthropy in the context of Africa's acute shortage of medical personnel. She will compare two migratory linkages: (1) between Senegal and France and (2) between Ghana and the United States. The research is designed to follow the circulatory trajectories of Senegalese and Ghanaian associations and health professionals from host countries of employment to countries of origin. The researcher and her colleagaues will conduct ethnographic research among a select sample of Senegalese and Ghanaian diaspora associations in France and the United States. They will document the networks and processes through which these associations articulate with state and multilateral agencies in their efforts to transfer medical skills and health resources to their countries of origin. They will collect life history interviews among individual Senegalese and Ghanaian medical providers in the diaspora to ascertain on migration, work, and philanthropic efforts. The histories will provide data to assess whether class, duration away from homeland, and level of connectivity with homeland, among other variables, are predictive of diaspora philanthropic engagement. The last year of the study will culminate with ethnographic research in the Senegalese and Ghanaian towns identified in the first phases of research as recipient communities of diaspora-led efforts. The aim of this last phase of research is to ascertain how the medical philanthropic projects are being implemented and received locally. The educational component of the program employs a novel collaborative model that enables select American students to conduct ethnographic research in direct collaboration with African counterpart students from universities in Senegal and Ghana. The findings of this research will bring needed critical analysis to bear on current received wisdom regarding the potentials of "diasporas for development." The study will also bring empirically-grounded anthropological insights to broader disciplinary debates on transnationalism and deterritorialized citizenries.

该奖项由 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）资助。威拉米特大学的乔伊斯·米伦 (Joyce V. Millen) 将开展一项为期三年的研究和教育计划，以在非洲医务人员严重短缺的情况下增进对非洲侨民推动的健康慈善事业的了解。她将比较两种移民联系：（1）塞内加尔和法国之间以及（2）加纳和美国之间。该研究旨在追踪塞内加尔和加纳协会以及卫生专业人员从就业东道国到原籍国的循环轨迹。研究人员和她的同事将对法国和美国的塞内加尔和加纳侨民协会的选定样本进行人种学研究。 他们将记录这些协会与国家和多边机构联系的网络和流程，以努力将医疗技能和卫生资源转移到其原籍国。他们将收集散居国外的塞内加尔和加纳医疗服务提供者的生活史访谈，以确定他们的移民、工作和慈善努力。这些历史记录将提供数据来评估阶级、离开祖国的时间、与祖国的联系程度等变量是否可以预测侨民的慈善参与。该研究的最后一年将以塞内加尔和加纳城镇的人种学研究告终，这些城镇在研究的第一阶段被确定为侨民主导的努力的接收社区。最后阶段研究的目的是确定医疗慈善项目在当地的实施和接受情况。该计划的教育部分采用了一种新颖的合作模式，使精选的美国学生能够与塞内加尔和加纳大学的非洲同行学生直接合作进行民族志研究。这项研究的结果将带来必要的批判性分析，以影响当前关于“侨民促进发展”潜力的普遍看法。该研究还将为有关跨国主义和去领土公民的更广泛的学科辩论带来以经验为基础的人类学见解。