How do young diasporic Zimbabweans create spaces of belonging within 'the city'?

这个研究项目旨在调查年轻的流散津巴布韦人如何在“城市”中创造归属感的空间。年轻的散居津巴布韦人必须在城市中穿行，并在三个层面上表现出归属感——作为年轻人，作为散居的个人，作为英国黑人。在Homi Bhabha的第三空间理论的基础上，这个博士项目旨在理解并带来新的见解，了解年轻的流散津巴布韦人如何在殖民空间中创造新的意义，同时在英国大都市黑人生命问题的后果中开拓出归属感。为了实现这一目标，将对30名年龄在18-30岁之间居住在伯明翰的第一代津巴布韦年轻人进行30次定性深入半结构化访谈。最后，这个博士项目讨论了对散居的年轻黑人英国人的公共政策干预，并探讨了与大都市多元化社区的城市规划参与。博士项目的目标将通过回答以下目标来实现：年轻的流散津巴布韦人的第三个空间是什么，年轻的流散津巴布韦人如何创造第三个归属空间，是什么让年轻的流散津巴布韦人在创造第三个空间时与众不同，以及年轻的流散津巴布韦人和其他英国黑人年轻人有什么相似之处。

This research project seeks to investigate how young diasporic Zimbabweans create spaces of belonging within 'the city'. Young diasporic Zimbabweans have to navigate the city and perform belonging on three levels - as young people, as diasporic individuals and as Black British people. Building on Homi Bhabha's third space theory, this doctoral project seeks to understand and bring new insights into how young diasporic Zimbabweans navigate colonial spaces to create new meanings and simultaneously carve out a sense of belonging in the aftermath of Black Lives Matter in a large British metropolis. To achieve this, 30 qualitative in-depth semi-structured interviews will be conducted with 30 first-generation Zimbabwean young people aged 18-30 years old living in Birmingham. Finally, this doctoral project discusses public policy interventions for diasporic young Black British people and explores urban planning engagement with the metropolis' diverse communities. The aims of the doctoral project will be achieved by answering the following objectives; what is the third space for young diasporic Zimbabweans, how do young diasporic Zimbabweans create a third space for belonging, what makes young diasporic Zimbabweans unique in their creation of the third space and what similarities do young diasporic Zimbabweans have with other Black British young people.