Informal Settlements and Urban Migration in the Pacific

太平洋地区的非正规住区和城市移民

• 批准号: 1714323
• 负责人: Cadey Korson
• 金额: $ 13.8万
• 依托单位: Korson Cadey
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-15 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1714323&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Informal; Settlements; Urban; Migration; Pacific

This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Globalization has accelerated cultural poverty, the commodification of indigenous knowledges, food insecurity, and the exploitation of resources. As a result increasing numbers of indigenous peoples are moving to urban slum settlements where they face unemployment, discrimination, and further exclusion. A growing movement for what Lefebvre and Harvey call the "right to the city" advocates for a democratic and participatory approach to urban governance and planning. Through interviews with slum settlement inhabitants in the Pacific, community leaders, politicians, and scholars, this research examines how indigenous migrants are recreating communities, the impact of migration and squatting on their culture, and develop participatory approaches to improving conditions in slums. Indigenous peoples in the United States, the Pacific, and elsewhere struggle with adequate representation, quality of life, and poverty. This research aims to work with indigenous communities to develop policies on affordable and sustainable housing and the protection and celebration of indigenous culture in cities that can inform indigenous struggles for inclusion elsewhere. This research will build on a series of interviews, focus groups, participant observation, and mental mapping activities to analyze the development of informal settlements in urban peripheries. This project examines patterns of internal indigenous migration to urban areas, the extent to which migrants continue to participate in the activities in their home communities and maintain kinship networks, and how migrants are recreating community and a sense of urban indigenous identity in informal settlements. Finally, the concept of the "right to the city" is applied to identifying participatory approaches to improving conditions in informal settlements, creating affordable and sustainable housing alternatives, and empowering squatter inhabitants and the indigenous community to reshape the urban landscape in a way that celebrates their identity and values. Indigenous participants should have a voice in the planning and development of their homes and communities. By highlighting their ideas and supporting activism among community groups, this research seeks to cultivate participatory urban planning that meets the particular needs of indigenous islanders. The resulting strategies can be implemented in other urban environments with marginalized populations and informal settlements. These spaces should not be simply labeled as crime ridden, impoverished, or illegal. They are also spaces of innovation, indigenous knowledge, community, and belonging that can offer new strategies for a better mode of urban governance that improves the lives of inhabitants rather than excludes them.

该奖项是作为NSF的社会，行为和经济科学博士后研究奖学金计划的一部分提供的。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界，工业或私营部门和政府的科学事业准备有前途的早期职业博士级科学家。SPRF的奖励包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励博士后研究员进行独立研究。NSF致力于促进来自科学界各部门的科学家，包括来自代表性不足的群体的科学家参与其研究计划和活动;博士后期间被认为是实现这一目标的专业发展的重要水平。每个博士后研究员必须解决推进各自学科领域的重要科学问题。全球化加速了文化贫困、土著知识商品化、粮食不安全和资源开发。因此，越来越多的土著人民正在迁往城市贫民窟，在那里他们面临失业、歧视和进一步的排斥。列费夫尔和哈维称之为“城市权利”的运动正在兴起，主张以民主和参与的方式进行城市治理和规划。通过与太平洋地区贫民窟居民、社区领袖、政治家和学者的访谈，本研究探讨了土著移民如何重建社区、移民和擅自占用对他们文化的影响，并制定了参与性办法来改善贫民窟的条件。美国、太平洋地区和其他地方的土著人民在充分的代表权、生活质量和贫困中挣扎。这项研究的目的是与土著社区合作，制定关于负担得起和可持续住房的政策，并在城市中保护和庆祝土著文化，为土著人民争取融入其他地方的斗争提供信息。 本研究将以一系列访谈、焦点小组、参与者观察和心理地图活动为基础，分析城市周边非正式住区的发展。这个项目审查了国内土著人向城市地区移徙的模式、移徙者继续参与其家乡社区的活动和维持亲属关系网的程度，以及移徙者如何在非正式住区重新建立社区和城市土著身份感。最后，“城市权”的概念被用于确定参与性办法，以改善非正规住区的条件，创造负担得起的和可持续的住房替代办法，并赋予棚户区居民和土著社区权力，使他们能够以一种颂扬其身份和价值观的方式重塑城市景观。土著与会者应在其家园和社区的规划和发展中有发言权。通过强调他们的想法并支持社区团体的行动主义，这项研究旨在培养满足土著岛民特殊需求的参与性城市规划。由此产生的战略可以在其他有边缘化人口和非正规住区的城市环境中实施。这些空间不应该被简单地贴上犯罪猖獗、贫困或非法的标签。它们也是创新、本土知识、社区和归属感的空间，可以为更好的城市治理模式提供新的战略，改善居民的生活，而不是排斥他们。