CIVIC-PG: Track B: Improving integration of Ukrainian refugees in the US through equitable housing services

据世界银行估计，到2050年，全球气候难民将超过1.4亿人，学者和从业人员必须开发灵活和可扩展的难民融合模式。美国政府对俄罗斯侵略乌克兰造成的当代外部流离失所做出回应，宣布接受10万难民的政策。跨政治学，人类学和工程学的跨学科项目将分析乌克兰难民融入中西部地区的决定因素，其中一个重要方面是难民住房服务。难民住房为稳定和恢复正常提供了基础，但往往不合标准，资金不足。尽管公众最初对流离失所的乌克兰人持支持态度，但许多背景因素（例如，最低限度的联邦资金、乌克兰传统社区的不同集中程度、短暂的新闻周期、民族认同、文化和政治分歧）表明，难民住房在地理和时间上存在着重大差异。这些特点表明，有必要确定灵活的决策工具，以便于以最有利于难民的方式提供和管理住房，同时也适应各种制约因素。这场危机的动态特征符合公民社会的逻辑，因为它弥合了基本资源/服务与社区需求之间的差距，需要的时间很短。该项目的目标是评估住房对乌克兰难民融入社会的作用，将通过与难民共同制作知识和与难民组织建立真正的民间伙伴关系来帮助实现这一目标。要分析的关键问题包括：（1）乌克兰难民在中西部（第1阶段）和美国（第2阶段）的住房服务实践现状如何？(2)在中西部（第一阶段）和美国（第二阶段），哪些住房服务改善或阻碍了难民的融合和身份？(3)什么是灵活的决策框架和工具，以适应高流量的难民人口（第二阶段）？这项研究将利用合作，能力建设，并赋予权力的方法，以社区为基础的参与性研究（CBPR）。我们将在中西部采访40名难民和10个难民组织（第1阶段），然后进行区域多样化的国家研究，我们将采访来自四个地区的50名难民和20个难民组织（第2阶段）。本研究提供了一个框架，以了解如何遭遇住房组织和当地社区定义难民在美国公民社会中的地位。弥合基本资源和服务社区需求之间的差距-是NSF、国土安全部和能源部之间的合作。该奖项反映了NSF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。

With the World Bank estimating that there will be over 140 million global climate refugees by 2050, it is imperative that scholars and practitioners develop flexible and scalable refugee integration models. The US government has responded to contemporary external displacement resulting from Russian aggression in Ukraine by announcing a policy of accepting 100 thousand refugees. This trans-disciplinary project across political science, anthropology and engineering will analyze the determinants of Ukrainian refugee integration in the Midwest region, a critical facet of which is the refugee housing services. Refugee housing provides the foundation for stability and a return to normalcy, but is often substandard and underfinanced. Despite initially supportive public sentiment towards displaced Ukrainians, numerous contextual factors (e.g., minimal federal funding, varied concentrations of Ukrainian-heritage communities, transitory news cycles, national identity, cultural and political divisions) suggest significant geographic and temporal variation in refugee housing. These characteristics outline the need to identify flexible decision-making tools that could facilitate the provision and management of housing in ways that best benefit refugees while also adapting to constraints. The dynamic character of this crisis is in keeping with the logic of CIVIC because it bridges the gap between essential resources/services and community needs and requires a short timescale. The project goal of assessing the role of housing on Ukrainian refugee integration will be aided through co-production of knowledge with refugees and genuine civic partnerships with refugee organizations. Key questions to be analyzed include: (1) What is the current state of practice of housing services in the Midwest (Stage 1) and US (Stage 2) for Ukrainian refugees? (2) Which housing services improve or impede refugee integration and identity in the Midwest (Stage 1) and US (Stage 2)? (3) What is a flexible decision-making framework and tool to accommodate high-flux refugee populations (Stage 2)? This study will utilize the collaborative, capacity-building, and empowering approach of community-based participatory research (CBPR). We will interview 40 refugees and 10 refugee organizations in the Midwest (Stage 1), followed by a regionally diverse national study in which we will interview 50 refugees and 20 refugee organizations from each of four regions (Stage 2). This study provides a framework to understand how encounters with housing organizations and local communities define refugees’ position in US civil society.This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program—Track B. Bridging the gap between essential resources and services & community needs—and is a collaboration between NSF, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Energy.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.