Doctoral Dissertation Research - Colonial Legacies and Administrative Memory: The Legal Construction of Population Management Practices in Three Former British Colonies

博士论文研究 - 殖民地遗产与行政记忆：三个前英国殖民地人口管理实践的法律建构

• 批准号: 1061227
• 负责人: Kim Lane Scheppele
• 金额: $ 1.38万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1061227&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Colonial; Legacies

Regime change carries a promise that it will bring about transformation, reform and progress. However, even after political leadership undergoes radical changes, state bureaucracies and administrations often prevent implementation of new policies. Nowhere is this more visible than in the transition of modern states from colony into post-colony, where one would expect independent governments to differentiate themselves from their colonial predecessors. But former British colonies reveal surprising degrees of formal similarity with the new democratic regimes, in definitions of citizenship, residency and immigration. This project goes beneath that formal surface to examine the administrative practices of three former British colonies in the area of population management before and after independence. This project inquires into whether and how colonial legacies persist, and, where they do, traces how these legacies shape the governing practices of nascent democracies. To examine colonial practices and their legacies, the investigators explore the micro-routines of administrative practices in three former British colonies: Israel, Cyprus and India. All three states suffered from inter-communal violence and subsequent partition following their independence from the British Empire. Through historical comparison of their administrative archives, the investigators construct organizational portraits of the departments of immigration both in the colonial state and in the independent states that followed. In recent years, the field of population management, in which governments classify populations according to their status as citizens, residents, aliens, intruders or suspicious persons, has become crucial to issues of security and national identity, both in law and society scholarship and in policy debates. This project explores how those classifications are created and passed on through daily administrative practices, even through regime changes. Understanding how mechanisms of continuity perpetuate inequalities and prevent change will enable policy makers to better anticipate where active organizational transformation is needed in order to promote democratic practices and curb legacies of discrimination.

政权变更有望带来转型，改革和进步。但是，即使政治领导经历了根本性的变化，国家官僚机构和政府也经常阻止实施新政策。这比现代国家从殖民地过渡到后殖民地的过渡更为明显，在那里，人们希望独立政府将自己与殖民地的前辈区分开来。但是，前英国殖民地在公民身份，居住和移民的定义上揭示了与新民主政权的正式相似程度。该项目在正式的表面下进行，以研究独立前后人口管理领域的三个前英国殖民地的行政做法。该项目询问殖民地遗产是否以及如何持续存在，以及他们在哪里可以追溯这些遗产如何塑造新年民主国家的管理实践。为了研究殖民习俗及其遗产，调查人员探索了三个前英国殖民地的行政做法的微实施：以色列，塞浦路斯和印度。这三个州均遭受社区间暴力和随后的分区，在他们远离大英帝国之后。通过对其行政档案的历史比较，调查人员在殖民地国家和随后的独立国家中构建了移民部门的组织肖像。 近年来，人口管理领域，政府根据人口作为公民，居民，外星人，入侵者或可疑人员的地位对人口进行分类，这对于法律和社会奖学金以及政策辩论中的安全和民族认同问题至关重要。该项目探讨了如何通过日常行政惯例（即使是通过政权变化）创建和传递这些分类。了解连续性的机制如何使不平等和防止变化的持续状态使决策者能够更好地预测需要在何处进行积极的组织转型，以促进民主实践和遏制歧视的遗产。