Refugee integration and family reunification: The impact of 'the deserving mother' in the context of the UK and Denmark

难民融入和家庭团聚：“值得母亲”在英国和丹麦背景下的影响

• 批准号: EP/Y006364/1
• 负责人: Mette Berg
• 金额: $ 26万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY006364%2F1
• 关键词: Refugee; integration; family; reunification; impact

In 2016, an EU proposal to better protect refugees stated that there is a direct link between family reunification, mental health and successful integration. According to UNCHR, when families are separated, they find it more difficult to learn the local language, find employment and create local networks. Despite numerous European governments acknowledging the importance of family reunification in integration processes, little is known about how these reunified families negotiate access to welfare support, and by extension to integration, in a migration milieu that is structurally configured to exclude them. Migration research often views mothers as transmitting traditional, ethnically specific values and cultural resources to their children, and their role as either hindering or aiding their children's integration is usually the key focus of policy-makers. The aim of this project is to examine and understand, through a comparative analysis of the UK and Denmark - two welfare regimes with converging immigration policies - the integration processes of reunified families through the lens of the refugee mother. Drawing on anthropological and interdisciplinary approachesin the field of migration and gender studies, this study will examine how refugee mothers negotiate deservingness to welfare services and how they may challenge, change and impact on the integration processes through new forms of community and everyday practices of belonging. By taking the refugee mothers as the ethnographic point of departure, I will explore how interrelated understandings of motherhood, mothering and family are negotiated in 'welfare micropublics' (Berg et al. 2019) with advocates and street-level bureaucrats, and within the refugee families. The bringing together of the motherhood and family reunification scholarships will provide a unique insight into not only the experiences of refugee women but also the kind of policies that might better support an inclusive integration.

2016年，欧盟一项更好地保护难民的提案指出，家庭团聚、心理健康和成功融入社会之间存在直接联系。据联合国人权事务高级专员办事处称，当家庭离散时，他们发现学习当地语言、找到工作和建立当地网络变得更加困难。尽管许多欧洲政府承认家庭团聚在融合进程中的重要性，但人们对这些团聚家庭如何在结构上将他们排除在外的移民环境中谈判获得福利支持以及如何扩展融合的情况知之甚少。移民研究通常认为母亲将传统的、种族特定的价值观和文化资源传递给子女，而她们阻碍或帮助子女融入社会的作用通常是政策制定者关注的重点。该项目的目的是通过对英国和丹麦这两个移民政策趋同的福利制度的比较分析，从难民母亲的角度审视和理解团聚家庭的融合过程。本研究将借鉴移民和性别研究领域的人类学和跨学科方法，探讨难民母亲如何协商福利服务的应得性，以及她们如何通过新形式的社区和日常归属感挑战、改变和影响融入进程。通过以难民母亲为人种学的出发点，我将探讨如何在“福利微公共”（Berg et al. 2019）中与倡导者和街头官僚以及难民家庭内部协商对母性、母性和家庭的相互关联的理解。将母亲身份和家庭团聚奖学金结合起来，不仅可以为难民妇女的经历提供独特的见解，而且还可以为更好地支持包容性融合的政策提供独特的见解。