SGER: Coming Home: Exploratory Research on the Reintegration of National Guard Troops to Rural Native Alaskan Communities

SGER：回家：关于国民警卫队重返阿拉斯加农村原住民社区的探索性研究

• 批准号: 0801076
• 负责人: Linda Green
• 金额: $ 2.13万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0801076&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Coming; Home; Exploratory; Research

This Small Grant for Exploratory Research, Linda Green, proposes to do exploratory investigation of the social and cultural reintegration of Alaska Native troops, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, into their communities in southwestern Alaska. Green notes that of the approximately 2000 Alaska Army National Guard troops serving outside of the United States, most of them are from rural communities, 10% of whom are serving on the Kuwait-Iraq border and are from 25 Yup'ik villages located in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska. Green points out that there is a growing body of research that shows an "alarming rise in mental and behavioral health issues affecting active duty soldiers, reservists, National Guard troops, and veterans returning from the Middle East war theater." Examining the statistics, it is possible to predict that rural Alaska Native communities will be disproportionately affected by the anticipated increases in suicide, depression, alcohol and drug abuse, and an increase in domestic violence that has been reported for returning veterans. In small rural villages, where populations frequently number under 100 occupants, the affect of one individual's experience is dramatically magnified.Green proposes this SGER as an exploratory project to build a community collaborative project for research on how communities are affected by the reintegration of returning veterans; how the veterans' experiences affect their own social and cultural integration; and how to explore these issues in the historic framework of experiences previous veterans. The PI correctly states that a subject of such political and ethical considerations could only occur by building strong community and individual collaborations that include active participation, input, exchange and cooperation between the people of the region and the researcher.

琳达·格林（Linda Green）这项探索性研究的小赠款提议对阿拉斯加伊拉克和阿富汗的阿拉斯加土著部队的社会和文化重返社会进行探索性调查，以探究阿拉斯加西南部的社区。绿色指出，在美国以外的大约2000个阿拉斯加陆军国民警卫队中，其中大多数来自农村社区，其中10％在科威特 - 伊拉克边境服务，来自阿拉斯加育空地区的25个Yup'ik村庄。格林指出，越来越多的研究表明，“影响现役士兵，预备役人员，国民警卫队和从中东战争剧院返回的退伍军人的精神和行为健康问题令人震惊”。在检查统计数据时，可以预测，阿拉斯加农村土著社区将受到预期的自杀，抑郁症，酒精和滥用毒品的预期增加，以及据报道返回退伍军人的家庭暴力的增加。在小型农村村庄（在100名居民中经常数量的人口）中，一个人的经历的影响大大放大了。绿色建议该SGER作为一个探索性项目，以建立一个社区合作项目，以研究社区如何受到返回退伍军人的重新融合的影响；退伍军人的经历如何影响他们自己的社会和文化融合；以及如何在以前的退伍军人经验的历史框架中探索这些问题。 PI正确地指出，只有通过建立强大的社区和个人合作，包括积极参与，该地区人民与研究人员之间的积极参与，投入，交流和合作，才能发生这种政治和道德考虑的主题。