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

这项研究项目旨在调查散居国外的津巴布韦年轻人如何在“城市”中创造属于自己的空间。年轻的散居海外的津巴布韦人必须在城市中穿梭，并在三个层面上表现出归属感--作为年轻人、作为散居国外的个人和作为英国黑人。这个博士项目建立在霍米·巴巴的第三个空间理论的基础上，试图了解并带来新的见解，了解散居海外的津巴布韦年轻人如何在殖民空间中导航，以创造新的意义，同时在英国大都市的黑人生活也是如此之后，开拓出一种归属感。为了实现这一目标，将对30名居住在伯明翰的18-30岁的第一代津巴布韦青年进行30次定性的深度半结构化访谈。最后，这个博士项目讨论了对散居海外的年轻英国黑人的公共政策干预，并探索了与大都市不同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：散居海外的津巴布韦青年第三空间是什么；散居海外的津巴布韦青年如何为归属感创造第三空间；散居海外的津巴布韦青年在创造第三空间方面有什么独特之处；以及散居海外的津巴布韦青年与其他英国黑人青年有什么相似之处。

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.