Doctoral Dissertation Research: State-Making, Migration, and Development

博士生Monica Fagioli（新学院大学），在Janet Roitman博士的指导下，将对散居人口在其原籍国参与国家进程和项目进行研究。研究人员将集中研究联合国开发计划署和国际移徙组织（开发计划署-移徙组织）项目“合格的索马里侨民技术支助-移徙促进非洲发展”中的索马里侨民情况。研究的核心问题是跨国治理和国家形成过程之间的关系：在邦特兰和索马里兰这样的地方，跨国治理是如何在实践中实施的，在这些地方，一个主权中央国家已经存在了近20年？该项目将包括在五个关键地点进行为期12个月的多地点实地考察：华盛顿特区（美国）、伦敦（英国）、内罗毕（肯尼亚）、哈尔格萨（索马里兰）和加洛韦（索马里邦特兰）。本研究将采用参与式观察、非结构化访谈和档案工作，并将分为两个阶段。在第一阶段，将收集以下方面的数据：a)动员索马里侨民的进程；b)美国和英国的索马里人如何考虑quest - mida提供的机会。在第二阶段，将收集以下证据：a) quest - mida如何定义应转移到索马里兰和邦特兰的技能，以及其干预的优先事项如何形成；b)参与quest - mida项目的索马里侨民和索马里公务员如何在开发计划署-移徙组织以能力建设为目标的机构内实际履行其日常职责和履行其正式任务。这项研究的重要性在于它有助于扩大对国家建设过程的理解。此外，该研究对政策制定者所称的“移民-发展关系”提供了批判性的理解，即最近将移民重新定义为国家发展的工具。资助这项研究也支持了社会科学家的教育。

Doctoral student Monica Fagioli (The New School University), under the supervision of Dr Janet Roitman, will conduct research on the participation of diaspora populations in state processes and programs in their countries of origin. The researcher will focus on the case of the Somali diaspora in a United Nations Development Program and International Organization of Migration (UNDP-IOM) project, the "Qualified Expatriate Somali Technical Support- Migration for Development in Africa" or QUESTS-MIDA. The central research question addresses the relationship between transnational governance and state-making processes: how is transnational governance enacted in practice in places like Puntland and Somaliland, where a sovereign central state has not existed for nearly twenty years?This project will include twelve months of multi-sited fieldwork in five key sites: Washington D.C. (U.S.A.), London (U.K.), Nairobi (Kenya), Hargeysa (Somaliland) and Garowe (Puntland/Somalia). The research will use participant observation, unstructured interviews and archival work and will be divided into two phases. In the first phase, data will be collected on a) the processes of mobilization of the Somali diaspora; and b) the ways in which the opportunities offered by QUESTS-MIDA are taken into consideration by Somalis in the U.S. and the U.K. In the second phase, evidence will be collected on a) how QUESTS-MIDA defines the skills which should be transferred to Somaliland and Puntland and how its priorities of intervention come into being; and b) how Somali diaspora and Somali civil servants involved in QUESTS-MIDA projects actually enact their daily duties and pursue their official tasks within the institutions that UNDP-IOM has targeted for capacity building.The importance of this study lies in its contribution to expanding an understanding of state-building processes. Further, the study provides a critical understanding of what policy-makers call the "migration-development nexus," the recent redefinition of migration as an instrument for national development. Funding this research also supports the education of a social scientist.