Afghan Women's Community Participation: Meaning/Impact

描述（由申请人提供）：至少有190万难民生活在美国，妇女和儿童占所有难民的80%。难民妇女在逃亡和在西方国家重新安置期间经历了多次过渡，影响了她们的健康和福祉。出现了妇女参与的难民社区，但人们对难民妇女参与对其社区健康的影响了解有限。这项民族志研究采用参与性观察和访谈，将审查阿富汗难民妇女的社区参与情况以及有关的个人和社区变化。更大的目标是发展关于如何鼓励和支持妇女参与其社区的知识，并探讨在社区一级确定影响或改变的方法。具体目的是：描述生活在旧金山湾区的阿富汗难民妇女参与社区的经历和意义，识别阿富汗妇女参与社区的代际差异和相似之处，了解阿富汗社区和阿富汗身份对参与社区的妇女的意义，并探索如何使用参与式农村评估方法评估阿富汗妇女参与对阿富汗社区的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There are at least 1.9 million refugees living in the United States, and women and children constitute 80% of all refugees. Refugee women experience multiple transitions in flight and resettlement in western countries that impact their health and well-being. Refugee communities have emerged in which women are participating, but there is limited knowledge about the impact of refugee women's participation on the health of their community. This ethnographic study, using participant observation and interviewing, will examine community participation among Afghan refugee women and related individual and community changes. The larger aim is to develop knowledge of ways to stimulate and support women's participation in their communities and to explore methods for determining impact or change at the community level. Specific aims are: to describe the experience and meaning of community participation for Afghan refugee women living in the San Francisco Bay Area, identify intergenerational differences and similarities of Afghan women's participation, understand the meaning of Afghan community and Afghan identity for women participating in their community, and explore ways to evaluate the impact of Afghan women's participation on the Afghan community using participatory rural appraisal methods.