Emotional Adaptation and Incorporation Following Post-Disaster Relocation

该项目将研究从遭受自然灾害的地区迁移到美国大陆的人们是如何迁移的。该项目将推进关于那些因灾害而迁移的人在迁移和重新安置中挣扎或繁荣的条件的科学知识。本研究将通过研究因灾难而迁移后的适应情况，为我们所知道的整合和对搬迁者情绪健康的影响提供理论创新。这项研究通过了解支持他们重新安置的机制，以及接收他们的环境如何创造条件，为他们提供成功的机会，或以其他方式使他们变得迟钝，从而促进了生活在美国大陆的边缘化和弱势群体的健康和福利。这项研究将为指导灾后重新安置人员的未来工作提供知识基础，并将确定需要采取哪些干预措施来提升这些人群的经济、社会和情感福祉。本研究包括三个阶段的数据收集。首先，900名在飓风后重新安置的人将接受电话采访。第二阶段将包括与户主进行50次约两小时的访谈。第三，将对10个家庭的子样本成员进行访谈。该项目的主要研究问题是个人属性如何与接收环境（例如，地点或地区，包括劳动力市场的接收，社区的人口特征，以及可能促进或使适应更加困难的州和联邦条件）相互作用，以塑造他们融入主流社会的途径，包括他们的情感健康，这是一个经常被忽视的融合维度。本研究将增进我们对重新安置社区、其异质性、其重新安置经验以及与公民融合和参与的可能联系的理解。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will examine how people moving from a region that has undergone a natural disaster fare upon relocation to the continental U.S. The project will advance scientific knowledge about the conditions under which those moving as a result of a disaster struggle or prosper upon relocation and resettlement. This study will contribute theoretical innovations to what we know about incorporation and the ramifications for the emotional well-being of those who relocate by examining adaptation after moving regions due to a disaster. This research advances the health and welfare of a marginalized and vulnerable group living in the continental U.S. by understanding the mechanisms that support their resettlement and how the context that receives them creates the conditions that would offer them opportunities to succeed, or otherwise blunt them. This study will provide a knowledge base to guide the development of future work with those who relocate following a disaster and will identify what interventions are needed to uplift the economic, social, and emotional well-being of these populations.This study involves three stages of data collection. First, 900 people who relocated subsequent to a hurricane will be interviewed by phone. The second stage will consist of 50 interviews of about two hours with heads of households. Third, members of a subsample of 10 families will be interviewed. The project's main research question concerns how individual attributes interact with the context of reception (e.g., the locality or region, including the labor market reception, demographic characteristics of a community, and the state and federal conditions that can facilitate or make adaptation more difficult) to shape their pathways of incorporation into mainstream society, including their emotional well-being, an oft-neglected dimension of integration. This study will enhance our understanding of a relocated community, its heterogeneity, and its resettlement experiences, and possible linkages to civic incorporation and participation.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.