Doctoral Dissertation Research: Consumer Citizenship Among Internally Displaced Persons

这项由该奖项支持的研究调查了给予流离失所者的物质援助的政治、流通途径和消费模式。这个项目提出了三组研究问题：(1)援助提供：政府如何通过发放援助来解释和保护流离失所公民的社会权利？非国家援助提供者在这些过程中的作用是什么？(2)援助消费：国内流离失所者(IDPs)通过什么样的官僚程序才有资格获得援助？境内流离失所者如何消耗物质援助？援助如何加强或瓦解国内流离失所者对国家和归属感的看法？(3)援助流通：人道主义援助的价值在流通过程中是否发生变化？在政治矛盾的背景下，援助意味着什么？这项研究之所以重要，是因为流离失所是当代世界最大且快速增长的挑战之一。虽然流离失所后的人道主义援助是现代世界的一个根深蒂固的特征，包括美国的外交政策，但其所有影响都没有得到很好的记录。这项研究将由印第安纳大学人类学博士生Tetiana Bulakh在Sarah Phillips博士的指导下进行，重点是乌克兰的国内流离失所者。这项研究将对致力于提高援助效率的政策制定者和社会科学家建立当代公民物质方面的理论有用。这是一个合适的地点，因为乌克兰是世界上境内流离失所者人数最多的国家之一。研究人员将重点关注制定境内流离失所者政策的官员、国际组织的代表、当地志愿者、境内流离失所者及其社交网络。她将使用混合方法收集数据，包括访谈、参与者观察、“社会传记”或对援助对象的跟踪、以援助为重点的访谈、预测测试和分析与境内流离失所者政策有关的档案文件。

The research supported by this award investigates the politics, routes of circulation, and patterns of consumption of material aid given to displaced people. This project asks three sets of research questions: (1) Aid provision: How do governments interpret and protect the social rights of its displaced citizens through the distribution of aid? What is the role of non-state aid providers in these processes? (2) Aid consumption: What kind of bureaucratic procedures do internally displaced people (IDPs) navigate to qualify for aid? How do IDPs consume material assistance? How does aid reinforce or dismantle IDPs' ideas about the state and belonging? (3) Aid circulation: Does the value of humanitarian aid change in the process of its circulation? What meanings does aid accrue in contexts of political ambivalence? The research is important because displacement is one of the biggest and fast-growing challenges in the contemporary world. While humanitarian aid in the wake of displacement is an entrenched feature of the modern world, including American foreign policy, the full range of effects is not well documented. Findings will be useful to policy makers concerned with making aid more effective and to social scientists building theories of the material aspects of contemporary citizenship.The research will be conducted by Indiana University anthropology doctoral student Tetiana Bulakh, under the supervision of Dr. Sarah Phillips, focusing on IDPs in the Ukraine. This is an appropriate site because the Ukraine has one of the highest IDP populations in the world. The researcher will focus on officials who develop IDP policies, representatives of international organizations, local volunteers, and IDPs and their social networks. She will collect data using a mixed-methods approach, including interviews, participant observation, "social biographies" or tracking of aid objects, aid-focused interviews, projective tests, and analysis of archival documents related to IDP policy.