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

博士论文研究：人道主义护理工作的社会和地理维度

• 批准号: 2312594
• 负责人: Scott Kirsch
• 金额: $ 2.23万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2025-11-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2312594&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Social; Geographic

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.

冲突、侵犯人权、气候变化和其他不平等的重叠条件导致难民流动率达到历史最高水平。鉴于难民人口面临的诸多挑战，从基层团体到国际非政府组织的一系列人道主义组织致力于支持难民的社会、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影响难民环境中的生活。本研究通过 1) 采访人道主义护理人员，以及 2) 与人道主义组织和护理人员举办研讨会，来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，该项目开发了一种方法来了解在数据收集过程中与难民共同提供的难民护理服务的地理范围。该博士论文项目通过人种学参与观察、参与式研讨会和对人道主义从业者的深入访谈，对人道主义实践和护理工作进行原创性实证研究。该研究调查了人道主义从业者如何驾驭和协商地理环境以支持难民，以及边境地区复杂的社会因素如何影响护理服务的提供。这项研究通过考察边境地区的护理工作，以归属感、公平性和道德考虑问题为地理核心，推进了流离失所和女权主义地理学的学术发展。通过一系列研讨会来确定护理模式，并将这些模式总结在分发给人道主义组织社区的出版物中。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。