Doctoral Dissertation Research: Migration Management in Nigeria

布朗大学博士生斯泰西·L·在丹尼尔·J·史密斯博士的监督下，范德赫斯特将对移民和人口贩运的相互交织的现象进行研究，包括如何将这两个问题作为人道主义问题提出，由国家监管，并由移动的人经历。研究人员将在尼日利亚进行为期12个月的人种学实地考察，尼日利亚是人口贩运和移民的来源地。研究将侧重于返回的贩运受害者，包括研究康复方案的内容，职业培训和预防工作，特别是在返回的受害者庇护所，通过参与者观察，访谈和文本分析。她还将使用参与者观察，访谈和创意写作练习，探讨被确定为人口贩运受害者的妇女如何理解，体验和浏览这些程序。最后，她将追踪这些日常做法和更大的国家政策之间的联系，通过与官员，合作的非政府组织和双边赞助机构的关键线人。这项研究很重要，因为虽然大多数关于贩运和移民的社会科学工作都集中在目的地，但本项目将在更广泛的社会，文化和派遣国的制度背景下进行研究。因此，它认为移民可能是由一个移民输出国，如尼日利亚管理，以及个人移民如何浏览这些政策。该项目还有助于社会科学家的教育。

Brown University doctoral student, Stacey L. Vanderhurst, under the supervision of Dr. Daniel J. Smith, will undertake research on the intertwined phenomena of migration and human trafficking, including how the two may be presented as humanitarian problems, regulated by states, and experienced by the people who move. The researcher will conduct 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Nigeria, a source site for both trafficking and migration. The research will focus on returned trafficking victims, including studying the content of rehabilitation programs, vocational training, and prevention efforts, particularly at shelters fo returned victims, through participant observation, interviews, and textual analysis. She also will use participant observation, interviews and creative writing exercises to explore how women identified as human trafficking victims understand, experience, and navigate these programs. Finally, she will trace the connections between these everyday practices and larger state policies, through key informants with officials, collaborating NGOs, and bilateral sponsor institutions. This research is important because while most social science work on trafficking and migration focuses on destinations, this project will situate the research within the broader social, cultural, and institutional context of the sending nation. Thus, it considers how migration may be managed by a migrant-sending state like Nigeria, as well as how individual migrants navigate those policies. This project also contributes to the education of a social scientist.