Conditional citizens and hostile environments: Polish migrants in pre-Brexit Britain
Conditional citizens and hostile environments: Polish migrants in pre-Brexit Britain
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DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.08.014
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发表时间：
2019-11-01
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3.5
通讯作者：
Schweyher, Mateus
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作者：
Burrell, Kathy;Schweyher, Mateus
本文探讨了英国移民和福利制度治理的最新变化，考虑到移民政策中所谓的“威权转向”（Tyler, 2018）已经深入到波兰移民的日常生活中。波兰移民名义上受英国流动欧盟公民身份的保护。在关于种族化的政府管理、日常边界和条件限制的辩论的理论框架下，讨论借鉴了2017年底至2018年初对波兰人进行的一系列深入采访。首先，本文对理解更广泛的敌对环境和福利边境政策如何影响拥有更安全移民身份的人（不仅仅是那些被视为“非法”的人）以及白人和社会经济地位如何反过来塑造了这一点做出了重要贡献。它还记录了英国脱欧与这些事态发展以及欧盟公民未来安全的相关性。但它也突显出，尽管有人在努力削弱行动自由所带来的保护，但它们目前仍然很重要。恶劣的环境、福利改革，甚至英国脱欧——这些都出现在我们受访者的叙述中，但并非占主导地位。本文所分析的讨论让我们对不同的人如何面对国家和日常边界，以及如何在采访环境中理解这些遭遇，有了更细致入微的理解。他们强调了承认塑造日常生活的更广泛的权力来源的重要性，从人际关系到工作场所的经历，在这种情况下，敌意的环境遭遇和英国脱欧焦虑都是背景化的。
This article explores recent shifts in the governance of British migration and welfare regimes, considering how far a so called 'authoritarian turn' (Tyler, 2018) in immigration policy has reached into the everyday lives of Polish migrants - a population nominally protected by mobile EU citizenship status in the UK. Theoretically framed by debates about racialised govemmentality, everyday bordering and conditionality, the discussion draws on a series of in-depth interviews undertaken with Poles in late 2017 into early 2018. Firstly, the article makes important contributions to understanding how broader hostile environment and welfare bordering policies are affecting people who hold more secure migration statuses - not only those deemed 'illegal' - and how this is in turn shaped both by whiteness and by socio-economic position. It also documents the relevance Brexit has to these developments and the future security of EU citizens. But it also underlines how the protections that freedom of movement extend are currently still significant, despite efforts to erode them. Hostile environment, welfare reforms, even Brexit - these were all present in our respondents' narratives, but not dominant. The discussions analysed here then bring a more nuanced appreciation of how different people come up against the state and the everyday border, as well as how these encounters are made sense of in an interview setting. They highlight the importance of acknowledging a wider range of the sources of power which shape everyday lives, from relationships to experiences in the workplace, in which hostile environment encounters and Brexit anxieties are contextualised.