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

冲突条件重叠、侵犯人权、气候变化和其他不平等现象导致难民流动率创历史新高。鉴于难民面临的诸多挑战，从基层组织到国际非政府组织等一系列人道主义组织努力支持难民的社会、法律和物质需求。该项目调查难民人道主义团体如何实施关怀，影响关怀提供的社会和政治问题，以及人道主义关怀工作如何塑造难民背景下的生活。这项研究使用1)对人道主义护理工作者的访谈，以及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。在方法上，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编制的难民照料服务的地理层面。这一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实践者的深入访谈，产生了关于人道主义实践和关怀工作的原创经验研究。这项研究调查了人道主义实践者如何在地理环境中导航和谈判，以支持难民，以及边境地区复杂的社会层面是如何影响护理提供的。这项研究通过考察边界地区的护理工作，促进了关于流离失所和女权主义地理学的学术研究，这些工作是归属感、公平性和伦理考量等问题的地理核心。一系列的研讨会被用来确定护理模式，并在分发给人道主义组织社区的出版物中进行了总结。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.