Dissertation research: The Interim Structures of Kinship. Kin relatedness among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

论文研究：亲属关系的临时结构。

• 批准号: 0549023
• 负责人: Veena Das
• 金额: $ 0.87万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0549023&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; research; Interim; Structures; Kinship.

Current studies show that despite the demand for return to homelands, and some spectacular examples of such repatriations, many refugee camps take on a semi-permanent quality. Thus, what was supposedly provisional becomes routine. However, views differ regarding ordinary patterns of sociality that emerge in such environments of prolonged uncertainty and instability, particularly with regard to the institution of the family. Some studies emphasize the role of the family in providing refugees with a sense of continuity, and a source of familiar ways of being in the world, in environments that refugees otherwise experience through powerlessness and referential instability. Such studies also describe the refugee family as a critical form of social and cultural capital: not only a source of actual or potential support, but also a generative chart for articulating flexible networks of relationships usable in the short or long term. However, other studies show that refugees often experience the work that goes into securing relations with relatives as very difficult to maintain in the long run. The allocation of meager and overstretched resources, or the dispersal of relatives in pursuit of the same goal of mutual preservation, may exacerbate tensions, create rifts and even lead to abandonment of family life altogether.This dissertation research by a cultural anthropology graduate student will examine Arab recasting of its family ties and values in Palestinian refugee camps in southern Lebanon. By living among the refugees and using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, the researcher will investigate the extent to which norms and dispositions pertaining to l-'aela, the family, are deployed in strategies for coping with the uncertainty of the refugee environment. It will also explore how the long-term exposure to a universe of uncertainty and restricted possibilities affect notions of the moral economy of the family and the naturalness of kinship ties, as well as the conditions in which the experience of prolonged uprooting produces innovation or resistance to innovation in family culture. This research will offer a significant contribution to the education of a graduate student and to three contemporary areas of social science inquiry: refugee studies, the anthropology of the new Arab family, and kinship studies. In addition, the research will contribute to a better understanding of the processes whereby the refugee environment bears upon refugees' long-term ability to form and maintain significant relationships of cooperation and care. This has policy implications for institutions charged with care of persistent refugee communities, both in the Middle East and elsewhere, including the United States.

当前的研究表明，尽管需要重返国土，以及一些遣返的壮观例子，但许多难民营还是半永久性的。因此，所谓的临时性变得常规。但是，在这种长期不确定性和不稳定的环境中出现的普通社会模式的观点有所不同，特别是在家庭制度方面。一些研究强调了家庭在为难民带来连续性的作用，以及在难民通过无能为力和参考不稳定体验的环境中，在世界上熟悉的生活方式的来源。这样的研究还将难民家族描述为社会和文化资本的关键形式：不仅是实际或潜在支持的来源，而且是阐明短期或长期可用的灵活关系网络的生成图表。但是，其他研究表明，从长远来看，难民经常经历与亲戚关系的工作，这是很难维持的工作。微不足道和过度拉伸的资源的分配，或者是为了追求相同保护的目标而分散的，可能会加剧紧张局势，造成裂痕，甚至导致完全放弃家庭生活。这对文化拟人学研究生研究生研究的研究将检查阿拉伯人对其家庭的回顾，对南方居民的态度进行重塑。通过在难民之间生活并结合定量和定性方法，研究人员将研究与家庭（家庭）有关的规范和处置的程度，以应对难民环境的不确定性的策略。它还将探讨长期暴露于不确定性和受限可能性的宇宙如何影响家庭道德经济的观念和亲属关系的自然性，以及长期延长撤消的经历产生创新或对家庭文化创新的抵制的条件。这项研究将为研究生的教育和社会科学调查的三个当代领域提供重要贡献：难民研究，新阿拉伯家庭的人类学和亲属研究。此外，这项研究将有助于更好地理解难民环境具有难民长期形成和维持合作与关怀关系的长期能力的过程。这对在包括美国在内的中东和其他地方负责的机构有政策影响。