Doctoral Dissertation Research: Civic engagement and schooling for resettled communities

难民青年学校在促进过渡和融入收容社会方面发挥着至关重要的作用。本博士论文研究项目调查了安置学校以及难民和安置学生的社会和公民网络在青年融入东道国社会方面所起的作用。通过研究国家政策背景下安置学校学生的影响、网络和结果，这个博士研究项目推进了难民青年跨国教育政策的科学知识。本研究发展了一个社会网络模型，适用于其他关于移民和难民学校教育的研究。在全球难民学生中学入学率下降的背景下，一个经过科学检验的模式解决了全世界流离失所青年的教育和融入需求。研究结果将分发给当地学术和非学术机构的利益相关者。除了在经验数据收集和分析方法方面训练研究生外，该研究还将历史上未被充分代表的科学群体纳入研究设计。为了衡量安置学校教学法和课程对安置青年社会网络和公民实践的影响，研究者将采用定性研究方法和社会网络分析。本项目的研究方法包括参与观察、访谈、话语分析、档案分析等。具体而言，该研究确定了由学生开发的公民实践和文化策略，它们对同化及其对政府结构和教育计划的影响最为有效。文化和社会因素对正式难民和移民学校教育环境的影响的研究有助于教育人类学、移民和难民研究以及教育政策。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。

Schools for refugee youth play a vital role in facilitating the transition and assimilation into host societies. This doctoral dissertation research project investigates the role that resettlement schools and the social and civic networks of refugee and resettled students play in the integration of youth into host societies. By examining the impacts, networks, and outcomes of students in resettlement schools within the context of state policy, this doctoral research project advances scientific knowledge of transnational educational policy for refugee youth. The research develops a social network model adaptable to other studies on migrant and refugee schooling. In the context of dropping secondary school enrollment rates of refugee students globally, a scientifically tested model addresses the education and integration needs of displaced youth worldwide. Findings will be disseminated to local stakeholders in both academic and non-academic settings. In addition to training a graduate student in the methods of empirical data collection and analysis, the research engages a historically underrepresented group in science into the research design. To measure the effects of resettlement school pedagogy and curriculum on social networks and civic practices of resettled youth the researchers will use qualitative research methods and social network analysis. Research methods for the project include participant observation, interviews, discourse analysis, and archival analysis. Specifically, the research identifies the civic practices and cultural strategies developed by students that are most effective for assimilation and their impacts on government structures and educational programs. The examination of the effects of cultural and social factors on formal refugee and migrant schooling environments contributes to the anthropology of education, migration and refugee studies, and educational policy.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.