Doctoral Dissertation Research: Maintaining Social Relationships through Periods of Protracted Insecurity in Refugee Communities

博士论文研究：在难民社区长期不安全的时期维持社会关系

• 批准号: 1658464
• 负责人: Veena Das
• 金额: $ 1.32万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 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: 2017-02-15 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1658464&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Maintaining; Social

Global displacement due to forced migration is currently at historically high levels. Many of those refugees have experienced decades of violence and insecurity, making it difficult to maintain relationships. Researchers have established that strong community, kin, and network relations are essential to social and political stability. This project, which trains a graduate student in methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, explores how these relationships are maintained during extended periods of precarity. Findings will be disseminated to organizations that manage and develop policy related to refugee resettlement. The research also fosters international scientific cooperation, and broadens the participation of an underrepresented group in the sciences.Mariam Banahi, under the supervision of Dr. Veena Das of The Johns Hopkins University, will explore how kinship is conceived and affective relationships are maintained in the face of both protracted insecurity and periods of crisis. The research will be conducted in Hamburg, Germany, home to the largest Afghan community in Europe, and will employ anthropological tools of data collection, such as participant-observation, structured and semi-structured interviews, informal, open-ended conversations, budget surveys, genealogical charts, and household budgets. Though comprising one of the largest refugee groups worldwide, migration and refugee studies have largely ignored Afghans and Afghanistan. Also, Afghan conceptions of kin networks conceive of relatedness as both inclusive and beyond immediate blood relationships to larger ethno-linguistic, tribal, religious, and national communities. By investigating the practices and labors through which Afghans forge relations in spite of conflict, loss, and death, this research will contribute to theories on violence and chronic insecurity as they affect the families. Moreover, by attending to the Afghan family, this research will explore the often elided consequences of conflict to investigate refugee kinship and Muslim communities in Germany. Lastly, this research will foster greater interest in the academic study of Afghanistan through teaching and publications, as well as encourage collaborative partnerships between diverse actors engaged with emigrant communities.

由于被迫移徙造成的全球流离失所目前处于历史高位。其中许多难民经历了数十年的暴力和不安全，难以维持关系。研究人员已经确定，强大的社区，亲属和网络关系对社会和政治稳定至关重要。这个项目，培训研究生的经验，科学的数据收集和分析的方法，探讨这些关系是如何保持在长期的不稳定性。调查结果将分发给管理和制定难民重新安置政策的组织。这项研究还促进了国际科学合作，扩大了在科学领域代表性不足的群体的参与。玛丽亚姆·巴纳希在约翰霍普金斯大学的维纳·达斯博士的监督下，将探讨在长期的不安全感和危机时期，亲属关系是如何被构思和情感关系是如何保持的。研究将在欧洲最大的阿富汗社区所在地-德国汉堡进行，并将采用人类学的数据收集工具，如参与者观察、结构化和半结构化访谈、非正式、开放式对话、预算调查、家谱图和家庭预算。虽然阿富汗是世界上最大的难民群体之一，但移民和难民研究在很大程度上忽视了阿富汗人和阿富汗。此外，阿富汗人的亲属网络概念认为，亲属关系既具有包容性，又超越了与更大的民族语言、部落、宗教和民族社区的直接血缘关系。通过调查的做法和劳动，阿富汗人建立关系，尽管冲突，损失和死亡，这项研究将有助于暴力和长期不安全的理论，因为它们影响到家庭。此外，通过参加阿富汗家庭，这项研究将探讨往往被忽略的冲突后果，以调查难民亲属关系和穆斯林社区在德国。最后，这项研究将通过教学和出版物，提高对阿富汗学术研究的兴趣，并鼓励与移民社区打交道的不同行为者之间建立合作伙伴关系。