Life after deportation: Repatriation, Risk and Resilience among asylum-seekers and migrant families in Guatemala and Mexico (L.I.F.E)

该项目考察了美国移民政策对因新的第三国庇护处理协议而被强制遣返墨西哥和危地马拉的寻求庇护者和过境移民的影响。它探讨了他们和他们的家人在这一过程中如何经历风险和不安全，以及他们如何制定应对机制来缓解这些压力情况。至关重要的是，它调查了墨西哥和危地马拉不断演变的庇护处理和接收环境，并对有关这些州是希望来到美国的寻求庇护者的“安全第三国”的说法进行了质询。它借鉴了我们以前关于庇护治理和人道主义保护基础设施如何分包给邻国的工作，并利用从这些研究中获得的见解，为调查危地马拉和墨西哥境内寻求庇护的家庭和被驱逐的移民所面临的风险提供了信息。我们的目标是在墨西哥、危地马拉和邻国开展这一第一阶段项目，并为其后续重大研究方案提供可靠的基础。这项由国际小组开展的第一阶段研究将采用多种方法，包括(I)基于案头的研究(将政策分析与主要线人专家访谈相结合)；(Ii)一系列快速评估，包括犯罪统计分析；对墨西哥和危地马拉生活条件的观察；对被送往“安全”第三国的家庭的访谈；以及一项性别影响研究。这些研究活动将调查寻求庇护家庭和移民家庭面临的风险；家庭如何驾驭这些庇护和移民制度和结构；以及回归对个人和家庭的影响；(3)以艺术为基础的参与性研究活动，对居住在移民收容所的儿童和年轻人进行研究，以更好地了解流离失所和分离对他们的影响；(4)政策综合，总结从“安全国家和离岸处理庇护制度”中学到的经验教训。这项研究的成果将包括根据寻求庇护者和移民成人和儿童的证词编制的宣传工具包；一系列公共参与和政策活动，以分享工作中的知识和经验教训；以及关于在整个区域建立一个关于移徙和庇护治理的更大国际合作研究机构的提议。

This project examines the effects of US immigration policies on asylum-seekers and transit migrants who have been forcibly returned to Mexico and Guatemala as a result of new third country asylum processing agreements. It explores how they and their families experience risk and insecurity during this process, and also how they may develop coping mechanisms to mitigate these stressful situations. Crucially, it investigates the evolving asylum processing and receiving context in Mexico and Guatemala and interrogates claims that these states are 'safe third countries' for asylum-seekers who wish to come to the USA. It draws upon our previous work on the ways in which asylum governance and the infrastructure for humanitarian protection have been sub-contracted to neighbouring states and uses the insights gained from those studies to inform an investigation into the risks faced by asylum-seeking families and deported migrants in Guatemala and Mexico. Our ambition is for this first stage project to feed into and provide a secure basis for a major follow on research programme in Mexico, Guatemala and the neighbouring states.This first-phase study , carried out by the international team, will involve a multi-method approach including (i) desk-based research (combining policy analysis with key informant expert interviews); (ii) a series of rapid assessments involving analysis of crime statistics; observations of living conditions in Mexico and Guatemala; interviews with families sent to 'safe' third countries; and a gender impact study. These research activities will investigate the risks for asylum-seeking and migrant families; how families navigate these asylum and immigration systems and structures; and the impact of return on individuals and families; (iii) participatory arts-based research activities with children and young people living in a migrant shelter to better understand the impact of displacement and separation on them; and (iv) a policy synthesis of what has been learned from 'safe country and off-shore processing asylum systems in other global settings. Outputs from the study will include an advocacy tool-kit developed from the testimonies of asylum-seeking and migrant adults and children; a series of public engagement and policy events to share knowledge and learning from the work; and a proposal for a larger international collaborative body of research on migration and asylum governance across the region.