DDRI:State and Society Interactions: Negotiating Governance, Migration, and Citizenship

这个博士论文研究项目将分析文化习俗，人口迁移，以及国家与公民之间的关系，以更好地了解社会经济不平等，民族主义和种族冲突。 多数群体和少数群体之间收入不平等的加剧往往导致少数族裔群体的不满情绪加剧。 本研究将有助于了解周边地区的经济发展是否会减少这种不满，并导致少数民族对国家的依恋。 关于种族冲突和政府反应的地理模式的基础研究对于理解许多国家的政治和经济轨迹至关重要，包括此类冲突直接涉及美国和中国等国家的地区，这些动态可能对国家的未来发展产生深远影响。 项目调查结果将使政府和其他组织的决策者和研究人员了解少数民族人口稠密地区发展政策的后果。 该项目将促进美国和中国学者之间的合作。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将为有前途的学生提供支持，使其能够建立强大的独立研究事业。尽管有人声称，随着全球化的开始，民族认同正在发生变化，但地方依恋和独立运动仍然存在，而且往往伴随着暴力。 在中国，文化、种族和宗教习俗的冲突覆盖了公民身份、身份和归属感等关键政治问题。 对中国社会和政治的研究主要集中在东部沿海城市，但需要更多的关注，以更好地了解中央政府的政策在省和地方一级的影响，在中国西部自治区，有大量的少数民族。 为了研究有关国家与社会关系和领土主张的更广泛的问题，进行该项目的博士生将研究城市治理，农村到城市的移民，以及公民身份在中国西北地区的概念化。 她将寻求两个主要问题的答案：（1）不同的国家行为者如何使用经济发展和社区治理的战略，以维护政府控制在城市邻里水平？ (2)在这些政治和文化背景下，多数民族和少数民族的公民如何开展日常生活，如何与国家机构互动？ 学生将联合收割机的采访和参与观察的民族志方法与通过智能手机收集的城市生活的定量调查数据相结合。 通过对社区层面的日常城市体验的调查，将有助于揭示新疆这个发展不平衡的中国周边地区政治与日常生活之间的重要联系。

This doctoral dissertation research project will analyze cultural practices, population migration, and relationships between the state and its citizens in order to better understand socioeconomic inequality, nationalism, and ethnic conflict. Increasing income inequality between the majority and minority groups often results in increased discontent among ethnic minority groups. This study will contribute to knowledge about whether or not economic development in a peripheral region will reduce such dissatisfaction and result in growing attachment to the state by ethnic minorities. Fundamental research about the geographic patterns of ethnic conflict and government responses is essential for understanding political and economic trajectories in many nations, including regions where such conflicts have directly involved the U.S. and in nations like China, where such dynamics may have profound impacts on the nation's future development. Project findings will inform policy-makers and researchers in government and other organizations about the consequences of development policies in regions heavily populated by ethnic minorities. The project will advance collaboration between U.S. and Chinese scholars. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.In spite of claims that national identities are changing with the onset of globalization, local attachments and independence movements persist and often are accompanied by violence. Conflict about cultural, ethnic and religious practices overlays key political questions of citizenship, identity, and belonging in China. Research focusing on Chinese society and politics has concentrated on the eastern coastal cities, but more attention is needed to better understand the impacts of central governmental policies at the provincial and local levels in the nation's western autonomous regions, which have large numbers of ethnic minorities. In order to examine broader questions about state-society relations and claims to territory, the doctoral student conducting this project will examine urban governance, rural-to-urban migration, and how citizenship is conceptualized in northwest China. She will seek answers to two major questions: (1) How do various state actors use strategies of economic development and community governance to assert government control at the urban neighborhood level? (2) How do citizens from both majority and minority ethnic groups conduct their daily lives and interactions with state agencies in these political and cultural settings? The student will combine ethnographic methods of interviews and participant observation with quantitative survey data about urban life collected via smartphones. This investigation into everyday urban experiences at the neighborhood level will shed light on the significant connections between politics and daily life in Xinjiang, a peripheral region of China marked by uneven development.