Doctoral Dissertation Research: Institutional Arrangements and the Incorporation of Immigrant Populations

博士论文研究：制度安排和移民人口的融入

• 批准号: 1434707
• 负责人: Omar McRoberts
• 金额: $ 1.12万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1434707&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Institutional; Arrangements

Ethnic diversity is a common characteristic of urban environments and some European cities have become "super diverse" over the last decade. In response to this superdiversity, nations in Western Europe have created urban reception offices for newly arrived migrants. It is in these reception offices that local understandings of citizenship and incorporation are communicated and translated through citizenship classes. As a social phenomenon, the emergence of reception offices for the sake of incorporating newly arrived immigrants speaks towards a shift in emphasis from the legal to the moral dimensions of citizenship. In other words, in order for migrants to be considered citizens, they not only have to obtain the appropriate legal documents, but they also have to display "good moral character." Studies on these aspects of citizenship are relatively scarce. Nevertheless, they are important in order to get a better understanding of the theoretical categories of citizenship and incorporation. It implies studying who is included in the imagined community of citizens and who is not.This dissertation utilizes ethnographic research to investigate how newcomer migrants are welcomed in practice in the bilingual and multi-institutional city of Brussels, Belgium. Specifically, by comparing the French-speaking and the Flemish-speaking welcoming practices, the study aims to understand how and why new moral citizens are produced in an urban environment were there is no uniform vision on the governance of newcomers. This research will thus shed light on the micro processes whereby new moral citizens are produced as well as provide insight into denationalized forms of moral citizenship. This is then generalizable as information to advance theories of migration and integration and becomes useful as evidence for developing effective strategies for stakeholders involved in this process around the world.

种族多样性是城市环境的共同特征，一些欧洲城市在过去十年中变得“超级多样化”。为了应对这种超级多样性，西欧国家为新到的移民建立了城市接待处。正是在这些接待处，当地对公民身份和公司的理解通过公民身份课程进行交流和翻译。作为一种社会现象，接待新移民的接待处的出现表明，公民身份的重点从法律层面转向了道德层面。换句话说，为了让移民被视为公民，他们不仅要获得适当的法律文件，而且还必须表现出“良好的道德品质”。关于公民身份的这些方面的研究相对较少。然而，为了更好地理解公民身份和公司的理论范畴，它们是重要的。它意味着研究谁被包括在想象中的公民共同体中，谁没有。本论文运用民族志研究来探讨比利时布鲁塞尔双语多机构城市如何在实践中欢迎新移民。具体地说，通过比较讲法语和讲佛兰德语的欢迎做法，该研究旨在了解在没有统一的新来者治理愿景的城市环境中，新的道德公民是如何以及为什么产生的。因此，这项研究将阐明产生新的道德公民的微观过程，并提供对非国家化形式的道德公民的见解。然后，这可以概括为推进移民和融合理论的信息，并成为为世界各地参与这一进程的利益相关者制定有效战略的有用证据。