Doctoral Dissertation Research: Fostering Belonging and Assimilation Among recently Arrived Refugees

博士论文研究：促进新抵达难民的归属感和同化

• 批准号: 2342613
• 负责人: Sherine Hamdy
• 金额: $ 3.15万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-15 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2342613&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Fostering; Belonging

The challenge of how to support refugee assimilation in their adopted countries is a global one. The United States, in particular, is the adopted home of a large number of refugees and immigrants from all over the world. This doctoral dissertation project examines how refugees from war-torn regions arrive, assimilate, and contribute to U.S. society and develops an understanding of refugee assimilation that is generalizable to other refugee destination contexts. The research broadens an understanding of strategies refugees develop to create a sense of belonging and trust in host societies, the impact of the resettlement process on refugee integration and assimilation, and the transnational impact of refugees in influencing political change and peace in their home societies. Research findings inform the international community, the United Nations, other international organizations, and U.S. policy makers to facilitate refugee resettlement and the immigration and assimilation process. The dissertation research project trains a graduate student in methods of scientific data collection and analysis and builds capacity for future scientific research of a researcher from an underserved background. To study the demographic and social transitions that accompany refugee resettlement and to measure the social and economic factors that impact community participation and assimilation into host societies, the researchers engage qualitative research methods of semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and online ethnography. Findings from this research contribute to debates on transnationalism, the anthropology of migration, and refugee studies.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.

如何支持其所采用国家的难民同化的挑战是全球。特别是美国是来自世界各地的许多难民和移民的住所。该博士学位论文项目研究了饱受战争war地区的难民如何到达，同化并为美国社会做出贡献，并发展对难民同化的理解，这是可以推广到其他难民目的地环境的。 这项研究扩大了对难民战略的理解，以建立对东道国社会的归属感和信任感，重新安置进程对难民融合和同化的影响以及难民对影响其家庭社会政治变革与和平的跨国影响。研究结果为国际社会，联合国，其他国际组织和美国政策制定者提供了信息，以促进难民安置以及移民和同化过程。论文研究项目培训了一名研究生科学数据收集和分析方法的研究生，并为从服务不足的背景的研究人员提供了科学研究的能力。为了研究伴随难民重新安置的人口和社会转变，并衡量影响社区参与和吸收主持人社会的社会和经济因素，研究人员参与了定性研究方法，即半结构化访谈，参与者观察和在线人种志的定性研究方法。这项研究的结果促进了有关跨国主义，移民的人类学和难民研究的辩论。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。