Doctoral Dissertation Research: Resource Mobilization and Network Formation within Forced Migrant Communities

博士论文研究：被迫移民社区内的资源动员和网络形成

• 批准号: 1657911
• 负责人: Kristin Monroe
• 金额: $ 2.19万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-02-01 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1657911&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Resource; Mobilization

This project, which trains a graduate student in methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, explores network formation and survival strategies among forced migrant populations. Forced migrants who move within and across national borders as a result of events such as conflict, natural or environmental disasters, and famine are a particularly vulnerable part of the world's population. Often living in the margins of their new societies, most live in poverty and face a difficult future. Throughout the U.S., forced migrants are resettled into diverse places but often the specific kinds of challenges they face through the resettlement process are not well recognized. A better understanding of how forced migrants experience displacement and what resources they rely on to secure livelihoods and improve their well-being is critical for developing programs and policies that will improve the outcomes of resettlement efforts and help to build strong communities both in and beyond the U.S. Findings will be disseminated to aid organizations that explore and manage the causes, consequences, and complexities of forced migration. The research also fosters international scientific cooperation, and will broaden participation of an underrepresented group in the sciences.Daniel Joseph, under the supervision of Dr. Kristin Monroe of the University of Kentucky, will examine what strategies are deployed by displaced persons, facing statelessness and precarious social and economic conditions, to mobilize resources within and across their communities. This research is based in Anse-à-Pitres, a Haitian city along the border with the Dominican Republic where thousands of displaced people currently live in makeshift camps. These people, illegal Haitian migrants and Dominicans born of undocumented Haitian descent, were forced from the Dominican Republic in August 2015. The researcher will conduct participant observation and semi-structured interviews over a period of 12 months in different locations including camps, churches, market places, public gatherings, and food distribution sites. Relations with the displaced people and the establishment of networks will be facilitated through coordinating with an on-site relief organization. This research will contribute to theories of agency and conceptualizations of citizenship beyond the juridico-legal framework. Furthermore, insights from this research will help to develop programs and policies aimed at the empowerment of refugees and internally displaced persons.

该项目培训了一名研究生的经验，科学数据收集和分析方法，探讨了强迫移民人群之间的网络形成和生存策略。由于冲突，自然或环境灾难以及农场等事件，他们在国家内部和跨国边界的强迫移民是世界人口中特别脆弱的一部分。经常生活在新社会的边缘，大多数生活在贫困中，面临艰难的未来。通过美国，强迫移民被重新安置到潜水员的地方，但通常没有得到很好的认可。更好地理解强迫移民如何体验流离失所以及他们依赖于哪些资源来确保生计和改善其福祉对于制定计划和政策至关重要，这些计划和政策将改善重新安置工作的结果，并有助于在美国内外建立强大的社区，以促进组织探索和管理的原因，探索和管理强迫迁移的结果，并具有强迫迁移。这项研究还促进了国际科学合作，并将在肯塔基大学的克里斯汀·蒙罗（Kristin Monroe）博士的监督下扩大人数不足的小组的参与。丹尼尔·约瑟夫（Daniel Joseph）将研究​​哪些策略将由流离失所的人所部署，面对无情的社会和经济状况，以使其内部和跨越他们的社区。这项研究基于Anse-à-Pitres，这是与多米尼加共和国边界的海地城市，目前有成千上万的流离失所者居住在临时营地。这些人，非法的海地移民和多米尼加人，由无证件的海地血统，于2015年8月被迫从多米尼加共和国被迫进行。研究人员将在不同地点的12个月内进行参与者的观察和半结构化访谈，包括营地，教堂，教堂，市场，公共场所，公共聚会和食品分配场所。与流离失所者的关系以及建立网络将通过与现场救济组织的协调来准备。这项研究将有助于代理理论和法律法律框架之外的公民身份的概念化。此外，这项研究的见解将有助于制定旨在增强难民和内部流离失所者权力的计划和政策。