Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social and Geographic Dimensions of Humanitarian Care Work

冲突、侵犯人权行为、气候变化和其他不平等现象相互交织，导致难民流动率达到历史最高水平。鉴于难民人口面临的许多挑战，从基层团体到国际非政府组织的一系列人道主义组织努力支持难民的社会、法律的和物质需求。该项目调查了难民人道主义团体如何提供护理，影响护理提供的社会和政治问题以及人道主义护理工作如何塑造难民环境中的生活。本研究采用1）与人道主义护理工作者的访谈，2）与人道主义组织和护理工作者的研讨会，以了解如何在地理形成和谈判的背景下为难民提供护理。从方法上讲，该项目制定了一种方法，以了解在数据收集过程中与难民共同提供的难民护理的地理方面。这个博士论文项目通过人种学参与者观察，参与性研讨会和对人道主义从业人员的深入采访，产生了关于人道主义实践和护理工作的原创实证研究。该研究调查了人道主义工作者如何导航和谈判地理环境，以支持难民，以及如何提供护理是由边境地区复杂的社会层面形成的。本研究通过研究在归属，公平和道德考虑问题的地理核心的边界空间的护理工作，推进了流离失所和女权主义地理学的学术研究。通过一系列讲习班确定护理模式，并在分发给人道主义组织社区的出版物中总结这些模式。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，被认为值得支持。

Overlapping conditions of conflict, human rights violations, climate change and other inequities have resulted in historically high rates of refugee movements. Given the many challenges facing refugee populations, a range of humanitarian organizations from grassroots groups to international Non-Governmental Organizations work to support the social, legal, and material needs of refugees. This project investigates how care is practiced by refugee humanitarian groups, the social and political issues affecting care provision and how humanitarian care work shapes life in refugee contexts. This study uses 1) interviews with humanitarian care workers, and 2) workshops with humanitarian organizations and care workers, to understand how care is provided for refugees in the context of geographic formation and negotiation. Methodologically, this project develops an approach to understand the geographic dimensions of refugee care provision co-produced with refugees in the data collection process. This doctoral dissertation project generates original empirical research on humanitarian practice and care work through ethnographic participant observation, participatory workshops and in-depth interviews with humanitarian practitioners. The research investigates how humanitarian practitioners navigate and negotiate geographic contexts to support refugees and how care provision is shaped by the complex social dimensions in border areas. This research advances scholarship on displacement and feminist geographies by examining care work in border spaces at the geographical heart of questions over belonging, equity, and ethical considerations. A series of workshops are used to identify models of care and these are summarized in publications disseminated to the community of humanitarian organizations.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.