Security on the Move: Everyday security of IDPs in rapidly growing Somali Cities

本研究项目从最脆弱的城市移民、国内流离失所者（IDPs）的角度探讨索马里贫困、环境可持续性和冲突之间的关系。暴力冲突和干旱之间的相互作用被描述为索马里国内流离失所的主要驱动因素之一，但向城市的快速移民进一步增加了对城市和农村环境的压力。研究重点是国内流离失所者应对暴力和流离失所影响以及减轻脆弱性的能力。这项研究是在索马里南部的四个城市（摩加迪沙、拜多阿）、邦特兰（博萨索）和索马里兰（哈尔格萨）进行的，这四个城市在移民和暴力方面有着截然不同的历史。虽然哈尔格萨和摩加迪沙的国内流离失所者开始受到国际组织的关注，但人们对生活在博萨索或拜多阿等二线或较小城市的国内流离失所者知之甚少。该项目将进行访谈，比较国内流离失所者在迁移过程中和在进入城市时对安全的看法和做法。对国内流离失所者和城市的关注将该项目与新兴的全球城市议程以及制定城市可持续性、民主治理和城市生计新方法的必要性联系起来。通过选择从国内流离失所者的观点和经验来研究这个问题，最脆弱的人被置于知识生产的核心。这为研究方法的选择提供了信息，除了叙述性访谈之外，还包括照片语音方法。Photo-voice是一种高度创新的研究工具，它为那些通常没有被听到或沉默的人提供了“声音”。它不仅依靠语言能力，而且利用图像来传达人们对索马里城市安全与不安全的看法。选定的国内流离失所者将获得相机并制作照片，说明（非）安全以及（非）安全地点和经历

This research project addresses the nexus of poverty, environmental sustainability and conflict in Somalia from the perspective of the most vulnerable in-migrants to cities, people who were internally displaced (IDPs). The interplay between violent conflict and droughts is described as one of the main drivers of internal displacement in Somalia, but rapid in-migration to cities further increases pressures on the urban and rural environment. The research focus is on the capacities of IDPs to cope with the effects of violence and displacement and to mitigate vulnerability. The study is conducted in four cities in Southern Somalia (Mogadishu, Baidoa), Puntland (Bosasso) and Somaliland (Hargeisa), which have quite different histories pertaining to in-migration and violence. While IDPs in Hargeysa and Mogadishu have started to gain attention from international organisations, very little is known about IDPs living in secondary or smaller cities such as Bosasso or Baidoa. This project will conduct interviews and compare IDPs perceptions and practices of security on the move and when settling into the city. The concern with IDPs and cities links the project to the emerging global urban agenda and the need to develop new approaches to urban sustainability, democratic governance and livelihood in cities. With the choice to study this from the viewpoints and experiences of IDPs, people who are most vulnerable are placed at the core of the knowledge production. This informs the choice of research methods, which, in addition to narrative interviews, also includes a photo-voice methodology. Photo-voice is a highly innovative research tool that gives 'voice' to people who are usually not heard or silenced. It does not merely rely on verbal capacities, but uses images to communicate peoples' perceptions of securities and insecurities in Somali cities. Selected IDPs will receive cameras and produce photographs illustrating (in-)security and (in-)secure places and experiences