Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Sociolegal Dynamics of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Marginalized Communities

这项研究考察了替代争端解决机制在少数族裔社区中的作用。这项研究专门调查了具有不同法律和文化观点的不同替代司法机构，人们为什么和如何使用这些法外制度，以及这些司法机构如何受到国家的监管并与国家互动。除了支持博士生的培训外，这项建议还将与从事替代纠纷解决工作的法律从业人员、公民社会组织和社区活动家分享。本研究通过对两个显著不同的社会法律背景进行对照分析和比较，考察了导致使用替代司法机构的人认为这些机构的决定具有约束力的因素，以及赋予这些替代司法机构合法性的文化和法律动态。更广泛的问题也被问及社会和文化网络的形成，以及这些是否在不同的少数民族社区之间有所不同。这项研究的民族志方法包括参与者观察、半结构访谈和档案研究，以探索人们为什么求助于替代司法机构，这些机构和国家是如何互动的，以及不同的边缘群体，如妇女和难民，如何使用这些替代渠道来驾驭性别、司法和国家的动态。通过调查少数群体如何在日常生活中协商寻求正义的替代方式，该项目为法律人类学、国家人类学以及性别和宗教人类学做出了贡献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research examines the role of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms within minority communities. This research specifically investigates diverse alternative judicial bodies with different legal and cultural outlooks why and how people use these extralegal systems, and how these judicial bodies are regulated by and interact with the state. In addition to supporting the training of a doctoral student, the proposal will be shared with legal practitioners, civil society organizations, and community activists working in alternative dispute resolution.This research examines the factors that lead people who use alternative justice bodies to view the decisions made by those bodies as binding and the cultural and legal dynamics that give these alternative judicial bodies their legitimacy, through a controlled analysis and comparison of two significant different sociolegal contexts. Broader questions are also asked about social and cultural network formation, and whether these vary between different minority communities. Ethnographic methods for this research include participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and archival research to explore why people turn to alternative judicial bodies, how these bodies and the state interact, and how different marginalized groups, such as women and refugees, use these alternative channels to navigate the dynamics of gender, justice, and the state. By investigating how minority groups negotiate alternative ways of seeking justice in their daily lives, this project contributes to the anthropology of law, anthropology of the state, and anthropology of gender and religion.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.