Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants: Displacement and Emplacement in a Palestinian Refugee Camp

研究生纳迪亚·沃尔夫，由布林克利博士监督。Messick正在对位于黎巴嫩贝鲁特南郊的Bourj el-Brajaneh巴勒斯坦难民营进行研究。该难民营以及黎巴嫩其他定居点的许多难民继续坚持他们对巴勒斯坦土地和他们的祖父母被迫离开的那些村庄和城镇的依恋。巴托夫试图确定为什么这种依恋持续了三代人，以及巴勒斯坦民族身份是如何在这个过程中产生和维持的。研究人员在Bourj el-Barajneh居住了一年多（2003-2004年和2006年）。她的研究方法包括参与者观察，事件分析，非结构化访谈，关键线人的生活史和家谱访谈。她还在贝鲁特美国大学和贝鲁特巴勒斯坦研究所的图书馆进行档案研究。她将通过分析近200小时的难民录音采访来完成研究，并通过日内瓦国际红十字会总部和约旦安曼联合国巴勒斯坦难民和工程处的档案研究来调查难民营的成立和早期岁月，该研究项目将有助于社会科学理论关于流离失所和边缘化条件下的国家认同的生产，以及日常实践和社会关系在这一过程中的作用。 由于围绕难民返回权利的主张存在争议，而且社会政治上反对他们融入黎巴嫩社会，因此该项目具有社会和科学意义。 这项研究也将有助于培养社会科学家。

Graduate student Nadia Latif, supervised by Dr. Brinkley M. Messick, is conducting research in and about the Palestinian refugee camp of Bourj el-Brajaneh, located in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon. Many of the refugees in this camp, as well as in other settlements in Lebanon, continue to assert their attachment to the land of Palestine and the villages and towns their grandparents were forced to leave. Latif seeks to determine why this attachment has persisted over three generations and how Palestinian national identity has been produced and maintained in the process. The researcher lived in Bourj el-Barajneh for over a year (2003-2004, and 2006). Her research methods have included participant observation, event analysis, unstructured interviewing, life histories of key informants, and genealogical interviewing. She also has conducted archival research in the libraries of the American University of Beirut and the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut. She will complete the research by analyzing almost 200 hundred hours of taped interviews with the refugees and investigating the founding and early years of the camp through archival research at the International Red Cross Headquarters in Geneva, and the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees in Amman, Jordan, The research project will contribute to social science theory concerning the production of national identity under conditions of displacement and marginalisation, and the role of everyday practices and social relationships in this process. Because of the controversies surrounding the refugees' assertions of the right to return and the socio-political opposition to their assimilation into Lebanese society, this project is of social as well as scientific interest. The research also will contribute to the training of a social scientist.