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.

普通受众的项目描述：全球社区目前正在经历前所未有的强迫迁移水平；由于冲突，侵犯人权和其他形式的迫害，全世界有5950万个人被非自愿流离失所。该研究项目研究了当地，寄宿种群如何受到难民涌入的影响，特别是对东道国公民的民族认同，对国家提供的公共物品和服务的需求以及对移民政策的偏好的影响。该研究检查了难民是否可以加强附近的土著公民的民族身份和团结。它涉及与坦桑尼亚的公民受访者进行的调查，坦桑尼亚是一个拥有各种难民团体的悠久历史的国家。这项调查将比较居住在难民区的公民的态度和行为与没有难民的类似地区的公民的态度和行为。进一步的技术描述：难民如何影响其当地的东道国环境？该研究项目理论上，强迫移民的外在冲击可能对东道国的民族主义和民族建设产生意想不到的积极后果。难民可能会加强附近的原住民民族主义，因为民族身份是当地人和难民之间明显的差异点。此外，国际和政府援助进入难民营的涌入通常与附近的东道国社区缺乏当地公共物品形成鲜明对比。难民通过挑战民族边界并强调福利的不平等，可以无意中刺激东道国公民围绕其民族认同而集结，并更好地合作提供和要求提供公共物品和服务。该调查随机改变了难民的显着性水平，并使用新方法来衡量民族认同和移民威胁的复杂维度。