Doctoral Dissertation Research: Temporality and Changing Parameters of Citizenship

在当代世界中做一个公民意味着什么？客工计划、难民身份和其他形式的受保护但临时的法律的身份挑战了传统的民族归属感期望。矛盾的人群似乎会从裂缝中消失。这给需要保护国家主权并响应经济和人道主义需求的政策制定者带来了问题。它也可能成为社会科学家寻求对人与地方之间不断变化的关系的动态发展新理解的障碍。由该奖项资助的研究通过使用密集的民族志方法来从头开始建立对公民身份的新的实践和理论理解，从而应对这一难题的挑战。这项研究将由加州大学欧文分校人类学博士候选人詹妮弗·A·Zelnick，由Eleana Kim博士监督。重点人群将是柬埔寨血统的人，其中一些人是加州长滩的合法居民，其中一些人已被非自愿地重新安置回柬埔寨。这种居住地的转移使他们适合研究国家归属的模糊性和这些模糊性的后果。研究人员将在这两个地点进行调查。她将特别关注社会人口统计、运动历史、官方和官僚接触以及家庭和社交网络。将通过参与者观察、访谈、亲属关系绘图和档案研究收集数据。这项研究的结果将产生丰富的微观层面的数据，政策制定者和社会科学家都需要了解的性质和限制，在当今世界的公民身份。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

What does it mean to be a citizen in the contemporary world? Guest worker programs, refugee status, and other forms of protected but temporary legal status challenge traditional expectations of national belonging. Ambiguous populations can appear to fall through the cracks. This creates problems for policy makers who need to protect a nation's sovereignty and also be responsive to economic and humanitarian demands. It can also be an obstacle for social scientists seeking to develop new understandings of the dynamics of changing relationships between people and places. The research funded by this award takes up the challenge of this difficult problem by using intensive ethnographic methods to build new practical and theoretical understandings of citizenship from the ground up. The research will be conducted by University of California, Irvine, anthropology doctoral candidate Jennifer A. Zelnick, who is supervised by Dr. Eleana Kim. The focal population will be people of Cambodian origin, some of whom are legally resident in Long Beach, California, and some of whom have been involuntarily relocated back to Cambodia. This shifting residency makes them appropriate for research on the ambiguities of national belonging and the consequences of these ambiguities. The researcher will conduct her investigation in both sites. She will pay particular attention to socio-demographics, movement histories, official and bureaucratic encounters, and family and social networks. Data will be collected through participant observation, interviews, kinship mapping, and archival research. Findings from this research will produce the rich, micro-level data needed by both policy makers and social scientists to understand the nature and limits of citizenship in the world today.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.