Doctoral Dissertation Research: How Refugees Can Shape National Boundaries.

博士论文研究：难民如何塑造国家边界。

• 批准号: 1560636
• 负责人: Kosuke Imai
• 金额: $ 1.89万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560636&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; How; Refugees

Project description for general audience:The global community is currently experiencing unprecedented levels of forced migration; 59.5 million individuals around the world have been displaced involuntarily owing to conflict, human rights violations, and other forms of persecution. This research project examines how the local, host population is affected by an influx of refugees, specifically with regards to host citizens' national identity, demand for state-provided public goods and services, and preferences over immigration policies. The research examines whether or not refugees may strengthen nearby native citizens' national identity and solidarity. It involves a survey with citizen respondents in Tanzania, a country with an extensive history of hosting various refugee groups. This survey will compare attitudes and behaviors of citizens living in refugee-hosting districts to those in similar districts without refugees.More technical description:How do refugees impact their local, host environments? This research project theorizes that the exogenous shock of forced migration may have unintended yet positive consequences for nationalism and nation-building in the host country. Refugees may strengthen nearby native citizens' nationalism as national identity is the obvious point of difference between natives and refugees. Additionally, the influx of international and government aid into refugee camps often stands in contrast to the lack of local public goods in nearby host communities. Refugees, by challenging national borders and highlighting inequalities in welfare, can inadvertently spur host citizens to rally around their national identity and better cooperate in providing and demanding for public goods and services. The survey randomly varies the level of salience of refugees and uses new methods to measure the complex dimensions of national identity and migrant threat.

项目简介：全球社会目前正经历前所未有的被迫移徙；全世界有5950万人因冲突、侵犯人权和其他形式的迫害而非自愿地流离失所。这项研究项目考察了难民涌入对当地收容人口的影响，特别是在收容公民的国家认同、对国家提供的公共产品和服务的需求以及对移民政策的偏好方面。这项研究调查了难民是否可以加强附近当地居民的民族认同感和团结。它涉及一项对坦桑尼亚公民受访者的调查，坦桑尼亚是一个有着接纳各种难民群体的广泛历史的国家。这项调查将比较居住在难民收容区和没有难民收容区的公民的态度和行为。更多的技术描述：难民如何影响他们当地的收容环境？该研究项目推测，强迫移徙的外生冲击可能会对东道国的民族主义和国家建设产生意想不到的积极影响。难民可能会强化附近土著公民的民族主义，因为民族认同是土著和难民的明显区别。此外，国际和政府援助涌入难民营，往往与附近收容社区缺乏当地公共物品形成对比。难民通过挑战国界和强调福利方面的不平等，可能会在无意中刺激收容公民团结在他们的国家认同周围，并在提供和要求公共产品和服务方面更好地合作。这项调查随机改变难民的突出程度，并使用新的方法来衡量国家认同和移民威胁的复杂维度。