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

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处于历史高位。鉴于难民面临的诸多挑战，从基层组织到国际非政府组织的一系列人道主义组织都在努力支持难民的社会、法律和物质需求。这个项目调查了难民人道主义团体是如何实施护理的，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)对人道主义照护工作者的访谈，以及2)与人道主义组织和照护工作者的工作坊，以了解在地理形成和协商的背景下如何为难民提供照护。在方法上，本项目开发了一种方法，以了解在数据收集过程中与难民共同制作的难民护理提供的地理层面。本博士论文项目通过民族志参与性观察、参与性研讨会和对人道主义实践者的深度访谈，对人道主义实践和护理工作进行了原创的实证研究。该研究调查了人道主义从业者如何导航和协商地理环境来支持难民，以及边境地区复杂的社会层面如何塑造护理服务。本研究通过在归属、公平和伦理考虑等问题的地理核心检查边界空间中的护理工作，推进了流离失所和女权主义地理学的学术研究。一系列讲习班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加以总结。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.