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

博士生莫妮卡Fagioli（新学校大学），博士珍妮特Roitman的监督下，将进行研究散居人口参与国家进程和方案在其原籍国。研究人员将重点关注联合国开发计划署和国际移民组织（开发署-移民组织）项目“合格的索马里侨民技术支持-非洲发展移民”或QUESTS-MIDA中的索马里侨民的情况。中心研究问题解决跨国治理和国家决策过程之间的关系：如何在实践中制定跨国治理的地方，如邦特兰和索马里兰，在那里一个主权中央国家没有存在了近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）和加罗韦（邦特兰/索马里）。研究将采用参与观察、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）索马里侨民的动员过程;以及B）美国和英国的索马里人如何考虑QUESTS-MIDA提供的机会。在第二阶段，将收集以下方面的证据：（a）QUESTS-MIDA如何界定应向索马里兰和邦特兰转让的技能，以及其干预优先事项如何形成;和B）散居国外的索马里人和参与QUESTS-MIDA项目的索马里公务员如何在开发署-国际移民组织的目标是能力建设。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，该研究报告对决策者所称的“移徙-发展关系”-最近将移徙重新定义为国家发展的一种手段-提供了批判性的理解。资助这项研究也支持社会科学家的教育。

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.