DDIG: Constructing a British Mixed Race Identity: The Intersection of Nation, Citizenship and Belonging in Britain

研究生妮可Truesdell，博士的指导下。琳达亨特，将进行种族认同，国家认同和公民身份之间的关系的研究。她将研究在英格兰的长期居民和新移民的种族和民族身份的多样性和变化。她将特别关注这些身份是如何与国籍的想法;他们如何比较官方的新政府种族和民族类别系统，包括一个混合种族类别;以及如何最近的移民，这使得英国更种族和民族的异质性，影响理解这意味着什么是英国人。 研究人员将在英格兰中等城市布里斯托的各个地点进行研究，包括购物区、酒吧、咖啡店和市场。她的方法将包括参与者观察，半结构化访谈和文本分析。 她还将采访50人，以1）了解不同种族和民族背景的英国人如何理解他们在英国社会中的地位; 2）研究不同民族的人口，无论是个人还是集体，如何思考英国人的概念;和3）研究种族和民族在英国国家认同构建中的作用和影响。这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于目前的理论和政策辩论集中在公民身份、种族和族裔以及在世界移民不断增加的背景下的归属权问题上。关于种族的社会科学研究大部分是在美国进行的，这个项目将增加一个有用的比较案例。它也将有助于社会科学家的教育。

Graduate student Nicole Truesdell, under the guidance of Dr. Linda Hunt, will undertake research on the relationship between racial identity, national identity, and citizenship. She will examine the varied and shifting racial and ethnic identities of long-time residents and new immigrants in England. She will focus particularly on how those identities are related to ideas of nationality; how they compare to the official new governmental racial and ethnic category system that includes a mixed-race category; and how recent immigration, which has made Britain more racially and ethnically heterogeneous, affects understandings of what it means to be British. The researcher will conduct her research in various locations, including shopping areas, pubs, coffee shops, and markets, throughout the middle-sized city of Bristol, England. Her methodologies will include participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and textual analysis. She will also interview 50 individuals to 1) understand how Britons of different racial and ethnic backgrounds understand their place within British society; 2) examine how different ethnic populations, both individually and collectively, think about notions of Britishness; and 3) examine the use and influence of race and ethnicity in the construction of British national identity.This research is important because it will contribute to current theoretical and policy debates centered on issues of citizenship, race and ethnicity, and rights of belonging in a context of increasing worldwide immigration. Much of the social science research on race has been done in the United States, and this project will add a useful comparative case. It also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.