Doctoral Dissertation Research: Religion, Migration, and the Boundaries of Political Belonging

博士论文研究：宗教、移民和政治归属的界限

• 批准号: 2241650
• 负责人: Kabir Tambar
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241650&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Religion; Migration

Sanctuary plays an increasingly central role in immigration as asylum cases are adjudicated by various actors and entities. This doctoral dissertation research examines how religious sanctuary for asylum-seekers intersects with governmental asylum decisions to understand whether and how the boundaries between state and non-secular entities are affected by transnational politics. In addition to training a U.S.-based graduate student in scientific data collection, the research sheds light on protections afforded to individuals seeking asylum and disseminates results broadly. This project also broadens the participation of historically underrepresented groups in science.This doctoral dissertation project investigates how governments and religious institutions differentially interpret and negotiate asylum. The doctoral student integrates participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and archival research methods to empirically examine: 1) the criteria by which governments evaluate evidence of hardship in asylum applications, 2) the criteria by which religious institutions determine if a rejected asylum-seeker is eligible for sanctuary protections; 3) how rejected asylum-seekers from different religious, national, and ethnic backgrounds navigate sanctuary differently and; 4) how governments and religious institutions come to understand and redefine each other’s authority during sanctuary negotiations. The project contributes to social scientific studies of migration by shifting attention toward intersections between the state and non-state entities as cooperating to define political belonging.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

由于庇护案件由各种参与者和实体调整，因此庇护所在移民中起着越来越重要的核心作用。这项博士学位论文研究考试是为了了解国家和非附有实体之间的界限是否受到跨国政治的影响。除了培训科学数据收集的美国研究生外，该研究还阐明了寻求庇护的个人提供的保护，并广泛传播结果。该项目还扩大了历史上代表性不足的群体参与科学的参与。该博士学位论文项目调查了政府和宗教机构如何对庇护的解释和谈判方式有所不同。博士生将参与者的观察，半结构化访谈和档案研究方法整合，以凭经验检查：1）4）4）政府和宗教机构如何在庇护谈判中如何理解和重新定义彼此的权威。该项目通过将注意力转移到国家与非国家实体之间的交叉点上，以促进移民的社会科学研究，以合作定义政治归属。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来获得的支持。