Project RISE—Resilience in a Struggling Era:
Transnational Chinese Families in the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many challenges for the transnational Chinese communities in the United States. Government agencies and NGOs have documented a soaring number of anti-Asian hate crimes. Families are also confronted with restrictions on international travel putting on hold the hopes for families to reunite, the challenges of providing their children with stable economic income in an era of inflation, mitigating the spread of COVID-19, and supporting their children when their in-person schooling is disrupted.
Project RISE explores the lived experiences of Chinese transnational families during the COVID-19 pandemic, their challenges, and coping strategies. It is designed to respond to these challenges in the domains of education & mental health, amplify the diverse voices of transnational Chinese children, youths, and families, and raise the public’s awareness of anti-Asian racism. This project is a collaborative and critical ethnographic study conducted by an interdisciplinary research team from the University of Florida and Lesley University. Since the start of the project in 2020, our research team has been conducting interviews, and observations, collecting artifacts, and creating opportunities for community engagement. The findings of the study are used to generate academic resources, effective approaches, and programs to support the well-being and education of transnational Chinese children and families. We are currently focusing on recruitment and data collection efforts in the greater Boston area and in the state of Florida.
Project RISE is funded by the Racial Equity Grant from the Spencer Foundation and the Research Incentive Fund from the College of Education at the University of Florida.
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新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）大流行给美国的跨国华人社区带来了许多挑战。政府机构和非政府组织记录了数量激增的反亚裔仇恨犯罪事件。同时，家庭面临着国际旅行的限制，因而家庭团聚的希望被搁置。并且，在通货膨胀时代为孩子提供稳定的经济收入、减缓新型冠状病毒(COVID-19) 的传播，以及为孩子在孩子学校教育受到干扰影响的情况下为她们提供支持，这些对家长和照料者来说都也尤为不易。
RISE研究科研项目聚焦于了解探讨了中国跨国华人家庭在新型冠状病毒（ COVID-19） 大流行期间的生活经历、面对的他们的挑战和应对策略。它旨在研究如何应对教育和心理健康领域的这些挑战，放大彰显跨国中国华人社区中儿童、青少年和家庭的不同声音，并提高公众对反亚裔种族主义的相关意识。该项目是由佛罗里达大学和莱斯利大学的跨学科研究团队进行的一项协作性和批判性的民俗志研究。自 2020 年项目启动以来，我们的研究团队一直在进行访谈采访、观察、收集资料，并创造机会与华裔社区合作。研究结果将用于丰富支持华人儿童和家庭的福祉和教育的制作学术资源、有效的方法和社区项目计划，以支持跨国中国儿童和家庭的福祉和教育。我们目前正在进行专注于大波士顿地区和佛罗里达州的研究参与者的对象招募招聘和数据收集工作。
RISE 项目由Spencer斯宾塞基金会的种族平等研究项目和佛罗里达大学教育学院的研究促进激励基金资助。
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