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

该项目培训一名研究生掌握经验性科学数据收集和分析方法，探讨被迫移徙人口中的网络形成和生存战略。由于冲突、自然或环境灾害以及饥荒等事件而被迫在国内或跨越国界的移徙者是世界人口中特别脆弱的一部分。他们往往生活在新社会的边缘，大多数人生活贫困，面临艰难的未来。在整个美国，被迫移徙者被重新安置到不同的地方，但他们在重新安置过程中面临的具体挑战往往没有得到充分认识。更好地了解被迫移民如何经历流离失所，以及他们依靠什么资源来确保生计和改善福祉，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。和被迫迁移的复杂性。该研究还促进了国际科学合作，并将扩大代表性不足的群体对科学的参与。丹尼尔约瑟夫在肯塔基州大学的克里斯汀门罗博士的监督下，将研究流离失所者面对无国籍状态和不稳定的社会和经济条件，采取了什么战略来调动社区内部和社区之间的资源。这项研究的基础是在安塞-阿-皮特雷，海地城市沿着与多米尼加共和国的边界，成千上万的流离失所者目前住在临时营地。这些人是非法海地移民和没有证件的海地血统的多米尼加人，于2015年8月被迫离开多米尼加共和国。研究人员将在12个月的时间里在不同的地点进行参与观察和半结构化访谈，包括营地，教堂，市场，公共集会和食品分发地点。将通过与一个现场救济组织协调，促进与流离失所者的关系和建立网络。这项研究将有助于超越司法法律框架的机构和公民身份的概念化理论。此外，这项研究的见解将有助于制定旨在增强难民和境内流离失所者权能的方案和政策。

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.