Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Immigration, Citizenship, and Violence in Post-Colonial Nation States

研究生Anneeth Hundle将在Damani Partridge博士的指导下，对影响后殖民民族国家移民政治参与的因素进行研究。这项研究的动机主要有三个：第一，了解殖民主义的经历如何影响后来的公民身份；第二，分析国家、暴力和移民之间的关系；第三，系统地调查后殖民背景下土著人口和移民人口之间的相互构成关系。这项研究将在乌干达坎帕拉进行，主要关注女性。研究人员将采用多种人种学研究方法，特别是参与者观察法和半结构化访谈。除了参与和记录日常社区生活中的种族间关系外，研究人员还将集中收集来自三个不同群体的30名女性的密集数据收集，这些女性被安置在与亚洲移民和公民权利有关的不同位置。这三个群体是：非洲女权主义者--代表针对亚裔印度妇女的暴力案件的活动家；来自印度的新移民亚裔印度妇女；以及与乌干达有殖民关系的乌干达亚裔精英妇女。研究人员还将收集口头移民和历史，对报纸和女权主义文学进行媒体分析，并收集和分析坎帕拉城市的空间数据。这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于理解后殖民环境下散居社区中产生暴力的因素。由于此类暴力在世界上日益普遍，这些发现不仅将有助于社会科学理论，还将有助于改进社会和政治政策。此外，资助这个项目还有助于社会科学家的教育。

Graduate student Anneeth Hundle, under the guidance of Dr. Damani Partridge, will undertake research on the factors that affect immigrant political participation in post-colonial nation states. The research is motivated by three primary concerns: first, to understand how the experience of colonialism affects later citizenship; second, to analyze the relationship between nation, violence, and migration; and third, to investigate systematically the mutually constitutive relationships between native and immigrant populations in post-colonial contexts.The research will be carried out in Kampala, Uganda, and will focus primarily on women. The researcher will employ multiple ethnographic research methods, particularly participant-observation and semi-structured interviews. In addition to participating in and documenting interethnic relations in daily community life, the researcher will focus intensive data collection on a sample of 30 women drawn from three different groups differentially placed in relation to Asian immigration and citizen rights. These three groups are: African feminist-activists who have represented cases of violence against Asian-Indian women; with new migrant Asian-Indian women from India; and elite Ugandan Asian women with colonial ties to Uganda. The researcher also will collect oral immigration and histories, do media analysis of newspapers and feminist literature, and collect and analyze spatial data for urban Kampala. The research is important because it will help to understand the factors that produce violence in diaspora communities in post-colonial settings. Because such violence is increasingly common in the world, findings will contribute not only to social science theory but also to improving social and political policies. In addition, funding this project contributes to the education of a social scientist.