Doctoral Dissertation Research: Measuring the Impacts of Physical and Structural Constraint on Refugee Women's Reproductive Health

博士论文研究：衡量身体和结构限制对难民妇女生殖健康的影响

• 批准号: 1324243
• 负责人: Ellen Gruenbaum
• 金额: $ 2.38万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2015-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1324243&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Measuring; Impacts

Graduate student, Elizabeth Wirtz, under the supervision of Dr. Sharon Williams, will explore how experiences of violence, insecurity, inequality, and poverty shape women's reproductive preferences, decisions, and actions. The researcher will use systematic qualitative ethnographic methods to investigate the ways in which physical and structural violence affects Somali refugee women's reproductive lives. This project will seek to understand the interaction between physical and structural violence and the ways in which they influence women's reproductive choices as well as the constraints they place on women's ability to successfully realize these choices. This study contributes to a theoretical understanding of individual and cultural resiliance and adaptation in the context of both prolonged and acute crisis, violence, poverty, and suffering. The project also has strong potential to inform policies and programs that address reproductive health, gender equality, and various forms of violence, particularly sexual and gender based violence in refugee communities. Specifically, this project aims to produce insights that will be used by agencies working with refugees in East Africa and elsewhere to improve the women's health, safety, and well-being. Part of the research design includes training and employing research assistants from the local community to foster local participation in social science research and increase refugee participation in potential interventions and program implementation. Information from this project will be disseminated through academic and non-academic channels including academic conferences and publications as well as reports and collaborations with international and local humanitarian organizations working with refugees in East Africa. The project also contributes to the education of a graduate student in anthropology.

研究生伊丽莎白·沃茨在莎伦·威廉姆斯博士的指导下，将探索暴力、不安全、不平等和贫困的经历如何塑造女性的生育偏好、决定和行动。研究人员将使用系统的定性人种学方法，调查身体暴力和结构性暴力对索马里难民妇女生殖生活的影响。该项目将力求了解身体暴力和结构性暴力之间的相互作用及其影响妇女生殖选择的方式，以及这些暴力对妇女成功实现这些选择的能力造成的限制。这项研究有助于从理论上理解在长期和严重危机、暴力、贫困和痛苦的背景下个人和文化的复原力和适应能力。该项目还有很强的潜力为解决生殖健康、性别平等和各种形式的暴力，特别是难民社区中的性暴力和基于性别的暴力的政策和方案提供信息。具体地说，该项目旨在产生洞察力，供东非和其他地方的难民工作机构使用，以改善妇女的健康、安全和福祉。研究设计的一部分包括培训和雇用当地社区的研究助理，以促进当地对社会科学研究的参与，并增加难民对潜在干预措施和方案实施的参与。这一项目的信息将通过学术和非学术渠道传播，包括学术会议和出版物以及报告，以及与东非难民问题国际和地方人道主义组织的合作。该项目还有助于人类学研究生的教育。