RAPID: Enforcement, Citizenship Status, and the Construction of Identity

该项目审查了执法对较小民族国家不同人口的影响，在这些国家，最近的一项行政命令根据人口和公民身份加强了执法。私人投资机构利用执法人员更高的能见度和更多的剖析事件报告，以更好地了解执法机构在该国形成群体身份和群体间关系方面所发挥的作用。在最初的调查和调查实验的基础上，私人调查人员审查了执法如何塑造公民和非公民以不同待遇确定其群体态度和经历的方式。调查结果将对执法可能在多大程度上加剧人口群体不平等提供重要启示。近年来，在许多国家普遍存在针对执法过度的社会抗议后，这个问题变得越来越紧迫。该项目认为，执法是塑造群体身份形成和政治化的关键机构，特别是在一个较小的民族国家的背景下，在这种背景下，执法部队已被部署以进行群体外镇压。根据政策反馈效果文献，该项目调查了与执法部门的互动在多大程度上是政治社会化的重要过程，向公民传授其在社会中的权利和地位。因此，在较小国家群体流动性的背景下，私人投资机构假设，经历强制执行将影响外群体个人认同为外群体成员的可能性，并增加其群体身份政治化的程度。这项研究将利用群体认同感的多种衡量标准，研究国家胁迫--在群体外强制加强的时期--如何按照群体外和祖先的路线，塑造区别对待和群体意识强度的经历。这一奖项反映了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 project examines the effects of enforcement on various populations in smaller nation states in which a recent executive order intensified enforcement on the basis of demographic and citizenship status. The PIs leverage the increased visibility of enforcement agents and the increased reporting of profiling incidents to better understand the role played by enforcement institutions in the formation of group identity and inter-group relations in the country. Drawing on an original survey and survey experiment, the PIs examine how enforcement shapes the ways in which citizens and non-citizens identify their group attitudes and experiences with differential treatment. Findings will shed important light on the extent to which enforcement may exacerbate demographic group inequality, a question that has become increasingly urgent in recent years following widespread social protest against enforcement excesses in many countries. The project posits that enforcement is a key institution that shapes group identity formation and politicization, particularly in a context in smaller nation state in which enforcement forces have been deployed for out-group repression. In line with the policy feedback effects literature, the project investigates the extent to which interactions with law enforcement, a central agent of the state, serve as an important process of political socialization, teaching citizens about their rights and position in society. In the context of group fluidity in a smaller nation state, the PIs therefore hypothesize that experiencing enforcement will affect the likelihood that an out-group individual will identify as a member of the out-group, as well as to increase the degree to which their group identity is politicized. The research will draw on multiple measures of group identity to study how state coercion - during a period of heightened out-group enforcement - shapes experiences with differential treatment and strength of group consciousness along lines of both out-group and ancestry.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.