Doctoral Dissertation Research: Refugees, Labor Markets and Urban Revitalization

这个博士论文项目探讨了难民妇女在美国城市振兴中的作用。 博士生将研究美国城市的城市振兴和中产阶级化如何与难民妇女在这些重新安置城市的直接劳动力以及生活在中间国家流离失所城市的女性亲属的劳动力汇款流动所产生的经济脉冲联系在一起。该项目将通过调查难民妇女与美国城市经济发展之间的关系直接造福社会，还将通过与难民社区组织的合作伙伴关系促进不同群体之间的教学、学习和知识共享。项目成果将与市政府和非营利难民服务组织分享，以促进制定更有效、包容和公平的难民重新安置政策。本论文项目调查如何难民妇女的劳动力和跨地方的联系有助于城市振兴和中产阶级化在美国通过他们的城市景观改造的补贴。 该项目的核心问题是：（1）难民重新安置机构对立即和“充分”就业的重视如何影响难民妇女在其重新安置社区从事无报酬劳动的做法？(2)第三国的难民妇女如何支持在美国的难民？(3)难民妇女的跨地区联系、无偿劳动和社会再生产实践以何种方式资助了美国重新安置社区的城市振兴和中产阶级化？ 使用各种定性的方法，如访谈，调查，扩展观察，photovoice，和文本分析，调查这些问题，通过案例研究的罗兴亚难民在迅速中产阶级化的城市奥罗拉，科罗拉多以及吉隆坡，马来西亚，一个流离失所的网站，许多奥罗拉的难民来。 该博士论文研究改进奖将提供支持，使有前途的学生能够建立学术研究生涯。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This doctoral dissertation project examines the role of refugee women in the revitalization of American cities. The doctoral student will examine how urban revitalization and gentrification in U.S. cities are linked to both refugee women's direct labor in these resettlement cities and the economic pulse generated by remittance flows from the labor of women relatives living in displacement cities in intermediary countries. The project will directly benefit society by investigating the relationship between refugee women and urban economic development in the U.S. It will also promote teaching, learning, and knowledge-sharing between diverse groups through collaborative partnerships with refugee community organizations. Project findings will be shared with municipal governments and nonprofit refugee service organizations to contribute to the formulation of more effective, inclusive, and equitable refugee resettlement policies. This dissertation project investigates how refugee women's labor and translocal linkages contribute to urban revitalization and gentrification in the U.S. through their subsidization of urban landscape transformation. The project's central questions are: (1) How does the focus on immediate and "full" employment by refugee resettlement institutions shape refugee women's practices of unpaid labor in their resettlement community? (2) How do refugee women in third country locations support refugees based in the U.S.? (3) In what ways do refugee women's translocal linkages, unpaid labor, and social reproduction practices subsidize urban revitalization and facilitate gentrification in their resettlement community in the U.S.? Using a variety of qualitative methodologies such as interviews, a survey, extended observation, photovoice, and textual analysis to investigate these questions via a case study of Rohingya refugees in the rapidly gentrifying city of Aurora, Colorado as well as Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a displacement site from which many Aurora-based refugees come. This Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award will provide support to enable a promising student to establish an academic research career.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.