Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Impact of Immigration Policies on Refugee Integration Experiences: A Comparative Analysis

这个项目的问题是：在不同的政策背景下，难民融合和适应是如何发挥作用的？为什么在一个收容国的难民比在另一个收容国的难民认为自己有更好的未来？该项目比较不同国家的难民有两个原因。首先，各国政府在难民融合政策方面各不相同。它们为难民的经济、社会、文化和法律参与分配了不同数量的资源。第二，移民和难民融合的成功程度因收容社会而异。使用国际比较研究设计来研究这一主题，将有助于发展对难民反应的类型学，以及融合机制的异同。这项研究将会发现在这些国家哪些是有效的，哪些是不有效的，以及为什么。在这个定性项目中，数据收集的主要方法将是通过对叙利亚难民和其他关键线人（包括与难民有关的组织的代表）的深入访谈。除了在每个国家约谈5个关键的线人外，还将在加拿大、德国、土耳其和美国对至少20名叙利亚难民进行约谈。面试将在每个国家的重要难民目的地进行：多伦多；水牛;伊斯坦布尔;和柏林。我们将采用有目的的滚雪球抽样方法来招募受访者。所有的采访都将用数字录音机录音，并全部誊写。每个转录将与图集的帮助下使用标准的定性方法进行分析。Ti是一个定性的数据分析软件包，从数据中归纳地建立代码和主题，得出发现并得出结论。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project asks: How does refugee integration and adaptation play out within different policy contexts? Why do refugees in one host country perceive a better future for themselves than refugees in another host country? The project compares refugees in different countries for two reasons. First, governments vary in terms of refugee integration policies. They allocate different amounts of resources for the economic, social, cultural, and legal participation of refugees. Second, the degree of success in the integration of immigrants and refugees varies by host societies. Examining this topic using an international comparative study design will allow for the development of a typology of reactions to refugees, as well as similarities and differences in the mechanisms of integration. This research will discover what works well and less well in the countries, and why. The primary method of data collection in this qualitative project will be via in-depth interviews with Syrian refugees and other key informants including representatives of organizations who work with refugees. Interviews will be conducted with at least twenty Syrian refugees in each country--Canada, Germany, Turkey and the United States--in addition to about five key informant interviews per country. Interviews will take place in important refugee destinations in each country: Toronto; Buffalo; Istanbul; and Berlin. A purposive snowball sampling method will be used to recruit respondents. All interviews will be voice-recorded with a digital recorder and fully transcribed. Each transcription will be analyzed using standard qualitative methods with the help of atlas.ti, a qualitative data analysis software package, to inductively establish codes and themes from the data to derive findings and draw conclusions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.