Optimising refugee resettlement in the UK: a comparative analysis

优化英国难民安置：比较分析

• 批准号: ES/K006304/1
• 负责人: Michael Collyer
• 金额: $ 46.54万
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FK006304%2F1
• 关键词: Optimising; refugee; resettlement; UK; comparative

Refugee resettlement is one of the most radical of all voluntary international migrations in terms of its impact on individual migrants. Resettlement is a very different way of becoming a refugee from the asylum system since refugees do not have to reach the territory of the destination state. Refugees are selected for resettlement by potential host states, in their country of first asylum, which is usually a neighbouring country to their own. Arrangements are made for their settlement and ongoing support, paid for either by the government of their new state, or by a sponsoring organisation. Refugees have social rights equivalent to citizens on arrival. Unlike the long, uncertain journeys undertaken by asylum seekers, the transition for resettled refugees is sudden and, given the contexts where they have been living previously, dramatic. In the UK, refugees are selected for resettlement specifically on the basis of their vulnerability, making adaptation even more challenging. The UK manages resettlement through the Gateway Protection Programme, which relies on local council implementation, sometimes in collaboration with civil society. The aim of this programme is to achieve the integration of refugees along several different life domains (e.g. employment, housing, education, health, language and cultural knowledge, well-being and social relationships). Previous research into the integration of refugees has been scant and has tended to focus on the first four 'easier to measure' domains in cross-sectional studies. In this project we will additionally study refugee integration in the less tangible but no less important areas of well-being, quality of social relationships, self-efficacy and perceived social acceptance. We will also adopt a longitudinal approach so that refugee adaptation can be tracked over time. This is a proposal for a multidisciplinary and multi-methods research project that will develop existing approaches to the integration of refugees through a longitudinal comparative study of resettled refugees in three different UK locations (Brighton, Greater Manchester and Norwich). Two research questions will be addressed: 1. How do these three areas compare in terms of integration outcomes for resettled refugees?2. What are the key determinants of integration outcomes among resettled refugees, especially subjective well-being, self-efficacy and perceived social acceptance?Answers to these questions will inform government refugee resettlement policy and theories of social cohesion and intergroup relations.We will use a combination of focus groups, quantitative survey research and individual interviews, sequenced into three stages: Three focus groups will be held in each area once a draft questionnaire has been designed, in order to discuss the design and focus of the questions. A longitudinal survey of around 300 refugees will be conducted in three stages, nine months apart. This will permit the tracking of changes in participants' life experiences and well-being over the project, as well as providing insights as to potential causal relationships among variables. Individual interviews with key informants in each area and with a purposively selected sample will be held after each stage of the questionnaire. They will allow more detailed exploration of emerging themes from the survey and capture the diversity and richness of refugee experience, shedding vital light on the processes underlying their well-being and overall integration.The project will also involve a significant capacity building element for 9 refugees who will be involved in the planning and implementation of the research. The Home Office, Refugee Action, The Refugee Council and the relevant local governments will all be represented on a steering group to advise on the conduct and direction of the research. The project will conclude with a substantial national conference to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Gateway Scheme 2014

就其对个别移民的影响而言，难民安置是所有自愿国际移民中最激进的人之一。重新安置是从庇护系统中成为难民的一种截然不同的方式，因为难民不必到达目的地国家的领土。在其第一庇护所的国家中，潜在的东道国选择了难民进行重新安置，该国通常是邻国。安排他们的和解和持续的支持，由其新州政府或赞助组织支付。难民拥有与公民到达时相当的社会权利。与寻求庇护者进行的漫长而不确定的旅程不同，重新安置难民的过渡是突然的，而且考虑到他们以前生​​活的环境戏剧性的。在英国，难民是根据他们的脆弱性专门选择重新安置的，使适应更具挑战性。英国通过Gateway保护计划管理重新安置，该计划依靠地方议会的实施，有时与民间社会合作。该计划的目的是实现难民在几个不同的生命领域（例如，就业，住房，教育，健康，语言和文化知识，福祉和社会关系）的融合。先前对难民融合的研究很少，并且倾向于专注于横断面研究中的前四个“更容易衡量”领域。在这个项目中，我们将在不太有形但同样重要的福祉，社会关系质量，自我效能感和感知的社会接受的领域中研究难民融合。我们还将采用一种纵向方法，以便随着时间的流逝可以追踪难民的适应。这是针对多学科和多方法研究项目的一项建议，该项目将通过对在英国三个不同地点的重新安置难民进行纵向比较研究（布莱顿，大曼彻斯特和诺里奇），开发现有的难民融合方法。将解决两个研究问题：1。这三个领域如何与重新安置难民的整合成果相比？2。重新安置难民的整合成果的关键决定因素是什么，尤其是主观的幸福感，自我效能和感知的社会认可？这些问题的答案将为政府难民重新安置政策以及社会凝聚力和团体关系的理论提供信息。我们将使用焦点小组的组合，量身定量的调查研究和个人访谈序列：一定会序列的组合：讨论问题的设计和重点。对大约300名难民进行的纵向调查将在三个阶段（相隔9个月）内进行。这将允许跟踪参与者对项目的生活经历和福祉的变化，并提供有关变量潜在的因果关系的见解。在问卷的每个阶段之后，将对每个领域的主要线人和有目的的样本进行个人访谈。他们将允许对调查中新兴主题进行更详细的探索，并捕捉难民经验的多样性和丰富性，从而对他们的福祉和整体整合的过程进行重要的启示。该项目还将涉及9名将参与研究和实施研究的难民的重要能力建设要素。内政部，难民行动，难民委员会和相关地方政府都将在指导小组中代表，以建议研究的行为和方向。该项目将在一个大量的全国会议上结束，以与2014年门户计划成立十周年一致

项目成果

Supplemental Material, SPPS752062_suppl_mat - Improving Refugee Well-Being With Better Language Skills and More Intergroup Contact

补充材料，SPPS752062_suppl_mat - 通过更好的语言技能和更多的群体间联系来改善难民的福祉

• DOI: 10.25384/sage.6993809
• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Tip L

'You can't have a good integration when you don't have a good communication': English-language Learning Among Resettled Refugees in England

• DOI: 10.1093/jrs/fez023
• 发表时间: 2021-03-01
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES
• 影响因子: 1.7
• 作者: Morrice, Linda;Tip, Linda K.;Brown, Rupert
• 通讯作者: Brown, Rupert

Improving Refugee Well-Being With Better Language Skills and More Intergroup Contact

通过更好的语言技能和更多的群体间接触来改善难民的福祉

• DOI: 10.1177/1948550617752062
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Social Psychological and Personality Science
• 影响因子: 5.7
• 作者: Tip L

Believing is achieving: a longitudinal study of self-efficacy and positive affect in resettled refugees

相信就是实现：重新安置难民的自我效能和积极影响的纵向研究

• DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2020.1737513
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Tip L

Putting refugees at the centre of resettlement in the UK

将难民置于英国重新安置的中心

• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Forced Migration Review
• 作者: Collyer, M.