Doctoral Dissertation Research: Negotiating migration adversity and well-being

随着移民在新城市的公共场所、医疗系统和重新安置工作中穿行，他们往往会遇到歧视、资源不足和缺乏机构服务，这些问题已被充分证明与其他潜在的健康问题一起产生了流行病效应。这个博士论文研究项目探讨了逆境的经验如何与城市环境中的复原力和福祉相关，以及在应对逆境时利用了哪些资源。除了为培训一名人类学和生物文化数据收集和分析方面的研究生提供资金外，该项目还衡量复原力和归属感在影响多文化和城市环境中的逆境经历方面所发挥的作用。该项目通过让其研究界参与科学研究进程，并在学术场所以外广泛传播其研究结果，提高公众对科学和科学方法的理解。该项目采用多学科方法，通过研究移民决策的行为背景，特别关注如何优先考虑与健康，生计和时间管理相关的问题，来调查弹性和福祉。这个项目提出了两个主要问题：1）移民如何理解和协商逆境的经历？2）社区空间如何成功和失败地管理逆境的影响？方法包括参与观察，半结构化访谈，焦点小组，和映射研讨会，探讨韧性和逆境之间的关系。数据将围绕归属感、移徙历史、城市生活经验、移徙权衡、社区思想和福祉概念等主题进行编码。通过科学地调查移民在日常生活中如何应对逆境和恢复力，该项目将有助于对城市地区社区，恢复力和福祉的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

As migrants navigate public places, medical systems, and resettlement efforts in new cities, they often encounter discrimination, inadequate resources, and a lack of institutional services, which have been well-documented to have a syndemic effect with other underlying health issues. This doctoral dissertation research project examines how experiences of adversity relate to resilience and well-being in urban environments, and what resources are leveraged in responding to adversity. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology and biocultural data collection and analysis, this project measures the role that resilience and sentiments of belonging play in influencing experiences of adversity in multicultural and urban environments. The project enhances public understanding of science and the scientific method by engaging its research communities in the scientific research process and broadly disseminating its findings beyond academic venues. It also broadens the participation of underrepresented groups in science.Using multidisciplinary methods, this project investigates resilience and well-being by examining the behavioral context of migrant decision-making, focusing specifically on how issues related to health, livelihood, and time management are prioritized. This project asks two main questions: 1) how do migrants make sense of and negotiate experiences of adversity? and 2) how do spaces of community both succeed and fail to manage the effects of adversity? Methods include participant observation, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and mapping workshops to explore the relationship between resilience and adversity. Data will be coded around themes of belonging, histories of migration, experiences of city-life, migration trade-offs, ideas of community, and notions of well-being. By scientifically investigating how migrants negotiate adversity and resilience in their daily lives, this project will contribute to research on community, resilience, and well-being in urban areas.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.