Doctoral Dissertation Research: State-Making, Migration, and Development

博士生Monica Fagioli(新学校大学)将在Janet Roitman博士的指导下，就散居人口参与其原籍国的国家进程和方案进行研究。研究人员将重点关注联合国开发计划署和国际移民组织(开发计划署-国际移民组织)项目中的索马里侨民案例，该项目名为“合格侨民索马里技术支持--非洲移民促进发展”，或称QUETS-MIDA。中心研究问题涉及跨国治理和国家建立过程之间的关系：跨国治理是如何在邦特兰和索马里兰等主权中心国家已经存在近20年的地方实施的？该项目将包括在五个关键地点进行为期12个月的多地点实地考察：华盛顿特区(美国)、伦敦(英国)、内罗毕(肯尼亚)、哈尔格萨(索马里兰)和加罗韦(邦特兰/索马里)。研究将采用参与者观察、非结构化访谈和档案工作，分为两个阶段。在第一阶段，将收集以下方面的数据：a)索马里侨民的动员进程；b)在美国和英国的索马里人如何考虑Quest-MIDA提供的机会。在第二阶段，将收集证据：a)Quest-MIDA如何界定应向索马里兰和邦特兰转移的技能，以及其干预优先事项如何形成；以及b)索马里侨民和参与Quest-MIDA项目的索马里公务员如何在开发署-移徙组织能力建设的目标机构内实际履行日常职责和执行公务。此外，这项研究还提供了对政策制定者所称的“移徙-发展关系”的批判性理解，即最近将移徙重新定义为国家发展的工具。资助这项研究还支持社会科学家的教育。

Doctoral student Monica Fagioli (The New School University), under the supervision of Dr Janet Roitman, will conduct research on the participation of diaspora populations in state processes and programs in their countries of origin. The researcher will focus on the case of the Somali diaspora in a United Nations Development Program and International Organization of Migration (UNDP-IOM) project, the "Qualified Expatriate Somali Technical Support- Migration for Development in Africa" or QUESTS-MIDA. The central research question addresses the relationship between transnational governance and state-making processes: how is transnational governance enacted in practice in places like Puntland and Somaliland, where a sovereign central state has not existed for nearly twenty years?This project will include twelve months of multi-sited fieldwork in five key sites: Washington D.C. (U.S.A.), London (U.K.), Nairobi (Kenya), Hargeysa (Somaliland) and Garowe (Puntland/Somalia). The research will use participant observation, unstructured interviews and archival work and will be divided into two phases. In the first phase, data will be collected on a) the processes of mobilization of the Somali diaspora; and b) the ways in which the opportunities offered by QUESTS-MIDA are taken into consideration by Somalis in the U.S. and the U.K. In the second phase, evidence will be collected on a) how QUESTS-MIDA defines the skills which should be transferred to Somaliland and Puntland and how its priorities of intervention come into being; and b) how Somali diaspora and Somali civil servants involved in QUESTS-MIDA projects actually enact their daily duties and pursue their official tasks within the institutions that UNDP-IOM has targeted for capacity building.The importance of this study lies in its contribution to expanding an understanding of state-building processes. Further, the study provides a critical understanding of what policy-makers call the "migration-development nexus," the recent redefinition of migration as an instrument for national development. Funding this research also supports the education of a social scientist.