Doctoral Dissertation Research: Maintaining Social Relationships through Periods of Protracted Insecurity in Refugee Communities

博士论文研究：在难民社区长期不安全的时期维持社会关系

• 批准号: 1658464
• 负责人: Veena Das
• 金额: $ 1.32万
• 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: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-02-15 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1658464&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Maintaining; Social

Global displacement due to forced migration is currently at historically high levels. Many of those refugees have experienced decades of violence and insecurity, making it difficult to maintain relationships. Researchers have established that strong community, kin, and network relations are essential to social and political stability. This project, which trains a graduate student in methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, explores how these relationships are maintained during extended periods of precarity. Findings will be disseminated to organizations that manage and develop policy related to refugee resettlement. The research also fosters international scientific cooperation, and broadens the participation of an underrepresented group in the sciences.Mariam Banahi, under the supervision of Dr. Veena Das of The Johns Hopkins University, will explore how kinship is conceived and affective relationships are maintained in the face of both protracted insecurity and periods of crisis. The research will be conducted in Hamburg, Germany, home to the largest Afghan community in Europe, and will employ anthropological tools of data collection, such as participant-observation, structured and semi-structured interviews, informal, open-ended conversations, budget surveys, genealogical charts, and household budgets. Though comprising one of the largest refugee groups worldwide, migration and refugee studies have largely ignored Afghans and Afghanistan. Also, Afghan conceptions of kin networks conceive of relatedness as both inclusive and beyond immediate blood relationships to larger ethno-linguistic, tribal, religious, and national communities. By investigating the practices and labors through which Afghans forge relations in spite of conflict, loss, and death, this research will contribute to theories on violence and chronic insecurity as they affect the families. Moreover, by attending to the Afghan family, this research will explore the often elided consequences of conflict to investigate refugee kinship and Muslim communities in Germany. Lastly, this research will foster greater interest in the academic study of Afghanistan through teaching and publications, as well as encourage collaborative partnerships between diverse actors engaged with emigrant communities.

由于强迫迁移而引起的全球流离失所目前在历史上处于较高水平。其中许多难民经历了数十年的暴力和不安全感，因此很难维持关系。研究人员已经确定，强大的社区，亲戚和网络关系对于社会和政治稳定至关重要。该项目培训了一名研究生的经验，科学数据收集和分析方法，探讨了在长期持久期间如何维持这些关系的方法。调查结果将传播给管理和制定与难民安置有关的政策的组织。这项研究还促进了国际科学合作，并扩大了一个人数不足的小组在科学中的参与。这项研究将在德国汉堡进行，是欧洲最大的阿富汗社区的所在地，并将采用人类学的数据收集工具，例如参与者观察，结构化和半结构化访谈，非正式的，开放式的对话，预算量，预算迅速发展，预算，谱系图表和家庭预算。尽管在全球最大的难民群体之一中，移民和难民研究在很大程度上忽略了阿富汗和阿富汗。同样，阿富汗的亲属网络概念将相关性视为包容性和直接血液关系，与更大的民族语言，部落，宗教和民族社区有关。通过调查尽管发生冲突，损失和死亡，阿富汗人锻造关系的实践和劳动，这项研究将在影响家庭时就暴力和慢性不安全感的理论做出贡献。此外，通过参加阿富汗家庭，这项研究将探索冲突的经常造成的后果，以调查德国的难民亲属关系和穆斯林社区。最后，这项研究将通过教学和出版物来增强对阿富汗学术研究的更大兴趣，并鼓励与移民社区互动的各种参与者之间的合作伙伴关系。