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

就对个别移民的影响而言，难民重新安置是所有自愿国际移民中最激进的一种。重新安置是成为难民的一种与庇护制度截然不同的方式，因为难民不必到达目的地国的领土。难民由可能的收容国在其第一收容国重新安置，第一收容国通常是他们自己的邻国。为他们的定居和持续支持做出安排，由他们新州的政府或赞助组织支付费用。难民在抵达时享有与公民同等的社会权利。与寻求庇护者经历的漫长、不确定的旅程不同，重新安置的难民的过渡是突然的，考虑到他们以前生活的环境，这是戏剧性的。在英国，难民是根据他们的脆弱性来选择重新安置的，这使得适应变得更加困难。英国通过门户保护方案管理重新安置，该方案依赖于地方议会的执行，有时还与民间社会合作。该方案的目的是实现难民在几个不同生活领域(如就业、住房、教育、卫生、语言和文化知识、福祉和社会关系)的融合。以前对难民融入社会的研究很少，往往集中在横断面研究中的前四个“更容易衡量”的领域。在这个项目中，我们还将研究难民融入不那么有形但同样重要的福祉、社会关系质量、自我效能感和被感知的社会接受度等领域。我们还将采取纵向办法，以便能够随着时间的推移跟踪难民适应情况。这是一项多学科和多方法研究项目的建议，该项目将通过对英国三个不同地点(布莱顿、大曼彻斯特和诺里奇)的重新安置难民进行纵向比较研究，开发现有的难民融入方法。两个研究问题将被解决：1.这三个领域在重新安置难民的融合结果方面如何比较？2.重新安置难民的融合结果的关键决定因素是什么，特别是主观幸福感、自我效能感和感知的社会接受度？对这些问题的回答将为政府难民重新安置政策和社会凝聚力和群体间关系的理论提供参考。我们将使用焦点小组、定量调查研究和个人访谈相结合的方法，分三个阶段：一旦问卷草稿设计完成，每个地区将举行三个焦点小组，以讨论问题的设计和焦点。对大约300名难民的纵向调查将分三个阶段进行，间隔九个月。这将允许跟踪参与者的生活经历和幸福感在项目中的变化，并提供对变量之间潜在因果关系的洞察。在问卷的每个阶段之后，将对每个领域的主要信息提供人进行个别访谈，并有目的地选择样本。它们将使人们能够更详细地探索调查中出现的新主题，捕捉难民经历的多样性和丰富性，为他们的福祉和全面融入提供重要的信息。该项目还将涉及9名难民的重要能力建设因素，他们将参与这项研究的规划和实施。内政部、难民行动、难民理事会和相关地方政府都将派代表参加一个指导小组，就研究的进行和方向提供建议。该项目将在2014年门户计划十周年之际举行一次重要的全国会议结束

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.