Collaborative Research: Dignity and the Movement of Displaced Populations

合作研究：尊严与流离失所者的流动

• 批准号: 2048977
• 负责人: Margaret Peters
• 金额: $ 44.98万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2048977&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Dignity; Movement; Displaced

Collaborative Research: Dignity and the Movement of Displaced PopulationsCo-PIs: Margaret E. Peters & Yang-Yang ZhouAbstractThis project examines how civilians facing high levels of insecurity due to conditions of armed conflict and economic crisis make decisions whether to leave their country of origin, where to settle if they decide to leave, and when to return home. This project focuses on internal values, such as dignity concerns and nationalism, that may influence this decision-making process in the context of multiple countries where crises of population displacement are present. The findings of this project will be of importance to U.S. national security as displacement events have become increasingly common in the last decade and can destabilize neighboring countries, including key U.S. allies, and pose complex challenges for humanitarian aid policies to affected populations. While existing scholarship focuses largely on how economic and security factors shape displacement decisions, this project theorizes that civilians seek to restore a sense of dignity regarding their family and professional life when making such decisions. As a result, they will compare the prospects of restoring dignity by leaving their home and locating in a new country with the prospects of rebuilding dignity at home. To test this argument, the project will conduct statistical analyses of original data collected from a series of survey studies of civilians in different countries along with behavioral games. This research will make significant contributions to scholarly literatures on individual and household crisis decision making in situations of displacement as well as research on humanitarian aid and response policy spanning multiple social science disciplines.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.

合作研究：尊严和流离失所人口的运动。Peters Yang-Yang Zhou摘要该项目研究了由于武装冲突和经济危机的条件而面临高度不安全的平民如何决定是否离开他们的原籍国，如果他们决定离开，在哪里定居，以及何时返回家园。该项目的重点是内部价值观，如尊严问题和民族主义，这些价值观可能会影响到存在人口流离失所危机的多个国家的决策进程。该项目的调查结果将对美国国家安全具有重要意义，因为流离失所事件在过去十年中变得越来越普遍，可能会破坏包括美国主要盟国在内的邻国的稳定，并对受影响人口的人道主义援助政策构成复杂的挑战。虽然现有的奖学金主要集中在经济和安全因素如何塑造流离失所的决定，这个项目的理论，平民寻求恢复尊严，他们的家庭和职业生活时，作出这样的决定。因此，他们会将离开家园到一个新的国家定居以恢复尊严的前景与在国内重建尊严的前景进行比较。为了验证这一论点，该项目将对从沿着行为游戏的不同国家的平民的一系列调查研究中收集的原始数据进行统计分析。该研究将为流离失所情况下个人和家庭危机决策的学术文献以及跨多个社会科学学科的人道主义援助和应对政策研究做出重大贡献。该奖项反映了NSF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而被认为值得支持。