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

本项目研究了在较小的民族国家中，执法对不同人口的影响，在这些国家中，最近的一项行政命令根据人口和公民身份加强了执法。私人侦探利用执法人员日益增加的能见度和越来越多的貌相事件报告，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发挥的作用。利用原始调查和调查实验，PI研究了执法如何影响公民和非公民识别其群体态度和差异待遇经历的方式。调查结果将揭示执法可能加剧人口群体不平等的程度，这一问题近年来在许多国家对执法过度的广泛社会抗议之后变得越来越紧迫。 该项目假定，执法是一个关键的机构，塑造群体身份的形成和政治化，特别是在较小的民族国家的背景下，执法部队已被部署为外集团镇压。根据政策反馈效应文献，该项目调查与国家中央机构执法部门的互动在多大程度上成为政治社会化的一个重要过程，向公民传授他们在社会中的权利和地位。在一个较小的民族国家的群体流动性的背景下，PI因此假设，经历强制执行将影响的可能性，一个外群体的个人将确定为外群体的成员，以及增加的程度，他们的群体身份被政治化。该研究将利用群体认同的多种测量方法，研究国家强制--在外群体强制加强的时期--如何塑造具有差别待遇的经历，以及外群体和祖先沿着的群体意识的强度。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力审查标准进行评估，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.