Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement: Violence, Citizenship and the Resettlement of Defectors

博士论文研究的改进：暴力、公民身份和叛逃者的重新安置

• 批准号: 1324090
• 负责人: Adrienne Pine
• 金额: $ 1.7万
• 依托单位: American University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-15 至 2015-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1324090&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Improvement; Violence

The researcher will investigate the relations between violence and citizenship in refugee resettlement. Violence -- whether political and physical, or unrecognized and rendered invisible -- permeates the experience of forced migrations and displacement, shaping and defining every phase of refugee resettlement processes. It is of paramount importance, therefore, to examine how violence operates in the lived experiences of citizenship as refugees resettle into host societies of asylum. This research will investigate this violence-citizenship nexus through an ethnographic study of resettlement and asks: (1) how the many and wide-ranging forms of violence refugees experience in their forced migration impacts their embodiment of citizenship; (2) how the formation and embodiment of host country citizenship might be a violent process; (3) and whether refugees articulate alternative imaginations of home, belonging and citizenship beyond the dominant confines of host country citizenship, and how. To obtain empirical data, the researcher will employ a mixture of social science research methods during field research including semi-structured interviews, life-history interviews, participant observation, and discourse analysis. This study contributes both theoretical and empirical insights into conceptions of citizenship beyond the juridical-political possessions of and claims to status and rights. It argues for a broader conceptualization that includes people's sense of belonging in the political entity and social body. Particularly, because violence permeates the experience of forced migrations shaping refugee resettlement processes, this study illuminates the active role of violence in the conception and embodiment of citizenship, and will offer insights to similar processes at work in other places where refugees are resettled within the citizen-body. This award will also support the scientific training of a promising graduate student.

研究人员将调查难民安置中暴力与公民身份之间的关系。暴力——无论是政治暴力还是人身暴力，还是未被认识到或被忽视的暴力——渗透到强迫移民和流离失所的经历中，塑造和定义了难民重新安置过程的每个阶段。因此，当难民重新安置到庇护所在社会时，研究暴力如何在公民的生活经历中发挥作用至关重要。本研究将通过重新安置的人种学研究来调查这种暴力与公民身份的关系，并提出以下问题：（1）难民在被迫移民过程中经历的多种形式的暴力如何影响他们的公民身份体现； (2) 东道国公民身份的形成和体现为何可能是一个暴力过程； (3) 以及难民是否在东道国公民身份的主导范围之外表达了对家园、归属感和公民身份的另类想象，以及如何表达。为了获得实证数据，研究者在实地研究中将采用多种社会科学研究方法，包括半结构化访谈、生活史访谈、参与观察和话语分析。这项研究为超越司法政治地位和权利的公民概念提供了理论和实证见解。它主张更广泛的概念化，包括人们对政治实体和社会团体的归属感。特别是，由于暴力渗透到塑造难民重新安置过程的强迫移民的经历中，本研究阐明了暴力在公民身份概念和体现中的积极作用，并将为其他难民重新安置地方的类似过程提供见解。 -身体。 该奖项还将支持有前途的研究生的科学培训。