Doctoral Dissertation Research: Liminality, Citizenship, and Social Stratification in a Rapidly Growing Migrant Population

这项研究将审查正在出现的经济移徙模式，这些模式使人口在不确定的时间内被困在其派遣社区和理想目的地之间的有限定居中。该项目将集中于与北非迅速扩大的移民人口进行人种学接触。通过关注移民的生活经历，移民-公民在劳动公共领域的互动以及在国家话语中安置“非法”主题，研究人员将研究新形式的跨国移民，身份建构和社会分层之间的相互联系。这项研究将在首都一个移民人口密集的郊区进行。研究人员将采用一系列定性方法，包括：传记调查问卷、半结构化访谈、随缘访谈、口述历史收集和作为移民援助组织的志愿个案工作者的持续参与观察。该项目将通过探索政治认同的种族、社会和经济结构，推进对公民身份和“非法性”的人类学理解。这项研究的结果对学者和政策制定者来说很重要，他们将北非视为非洲移民的最后一站。除了培养一名研究生外，资助这个项目还将为那些致力于政策改革的人提供宝贵的信息，以确保国际人权公约在整个欧盟及其周边得到维护。

This research will examine emerging patterns of economic migration that leave populations trapped in liminal settlement between their sending communities and desired destinations for undefined periods of time. The project will center on ethnographic engagement with the rapidly expanding population of migrants in North Africa. Through a focus on migrants' lived experiences, migrant-citizen interactions in the public sphere of labor and the placement of "illegal" subjects within national discourse, the researcher will examine interconnections between new forms of transnational migration, identity construction and social stratification. The research will be conducted in a heavily migrant-populated suburb of a capital city. The researcher will employ a range of qualitative methodologies, including: biographical questionnaires, semi-structured interviewing, "go-along" interviewing, oral history collection and ongoing participant observation as a volunteer caseworker at a migrant aid organization. The project will advance anthropological understandings of citizenship and "illegality" by exploring the racial, social and economic constructions of political identity. Findings from this research will be important to scholars and policymakers, who examine North Africa as a final stopping point for African migrants. In addition to training a graduate student, funding this project will contribute valuable information to those working towards policy reform to ensure that international human rights conventions are upheld throughout the E.U. and its periphery.