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Marriage Migration and Integration

婚姻移民与融合

基本信息

批准号：
ES/K006495/1
负责人：
Katharine Charsley
金额：
$ 32.59万
依托单位：
University of Bristol
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%2FK006495%2F1
关键词：
Marriage Migration Integration

项目摘要

Spouses constitute the largest category of migrant settlement in the UK (40% in 2009). In Britain, as elsewhere in Europe, concern is increasingly expressed over the implications of marriage migration for integration. In some ethnic minority groups, significant numbers of children and grandchildren of former migrants to the UK continue to marry partners from their ancestral homelands. Such marriages are presented as particularly problematic. A 'first generation' of spouses in every generation is thought to inhibit processes of individual and group integration, impeding socio-economic participation and cultural change for both parties in the marriage. New immigration restrictions likely to impact particularly on such groups have thus been justified on the grounds of promoting integration. The evidence base to underpin this concern is, however, surprisingly limited. The principle aim of this project is to enhance understanding of the relationships between marriage-related migration and these complex processes of integration, providing much needed new grounding for both policy and academic debates. Discussion of integration is also characterized by differing and often partial understandings of the concept, which is contested and politicized. In this project, we adopt a multi-level conceptualization of integration as:1. Referring to processes of migrant and host society interaction:a. Spanning several domains (structural, social, cultural, civic, political and identity). These may be separate or interacting.b. A two-way process affected by both the actions and attributes of migrants, but also by factors in the receiving society which may facilitate or impede integration.2. Part of discourses of national belonging, which may themselves be perceived as exclusionary.Indicators used to measure integration in quantitative research may also however be used as indicators of related concepts of ethnic inequality and cultural difference, complicating assessments of the integration impact of transnational marriages. In order to disentangle the effects of transnational marriage from those related to ethnic minority membership, we need not just survey research, but the more complex information provided by qualitative methods. This project will focus on the two largest UK populations involved in this genre of marriage migration: Pakistani Muslims and Indian Sikhs. To reflect the diversity of these populations and localities in which they are settled, research will focus on two geographical areas with differing characteristics: West Yorkshire and Bristol. In the first stage of the project, we will analyse available quantitative data to create a background picture of the associations between transnational marriage and various indicators of integration. We will then carry out semi-structured interviews with 64 couples to generate a new body of qualitative data with which to explore processes underlying associations identified in the quantitative data, and identify new avenues for enquiry. In order to bring the role of transnational marriage in these processes to the fore, participants will be sampled through pairs of siblings with contrasting marriage choices, i.e. where one sibling's marriage is transnational, and one took place within the ethnic population in the UK. Together, these two stages of research will allow us to develop nuanced understandings of the relationships between marriage migration and processes of integration in these significant populations. The comparisons between regions, and between ethnic groups will allow us to identify impacts particular to certain contexts, and those which are common in all, and so may also have relevance for other migrant spouses and their partners. These improvements in understandings are necessary not only for scholarship in this area, but also to inform service provision and assist in developing more targeted policy interventions.

配偶是联合王国最大的移民定居类别（2009年占40%）。在英国，与欧洲其他地方一样，人们越来越担心婚姻移民对融合的影响。在一些少数民族群体中，大量前移民到英国的子女和孙辈继续与来自其祖先家乡的伴侣结婚。这种婚姻被认为是特别有问题的。人们认为，每一代人中的“第一代”配偶会阻碍个人和群体融合的进程，阻碍婚姻双方的社会经济参与和文化变革。因此，以促进融合为理由，有理由对可能特别影响到这些群体的新的移民限制作出解释。然而，令人惊讶的是，支持这一关切的证据基础十分有限。该项目的主要目的是加强对与婚姻有关的移徙与这些复杂的融合过程之间关系的理解，为政策和学术辩论提供急需的新基础。关于一体化的讨论的另一个特点是对这一概念有不同的、往往是片面的理解，这一概念受到争议并被政治化。在这个项目中，我们采用了多层次的整合概念：1。关于移民与东道国社会互动的过程：a.跨越多个领域（结构、社会、文化、公民、政治和身份）。它们可以是单独的或相互作用的。这是一个双向进程，既受移徙者的行动和特点的影响，也受接受国社会中可能促进或阻碍融合的因素的影响。民族归属论的一部分，这本身可能被视为具有排斥性，然而，在定量研究中用于衡量融合的指标也可能被用作种族不平等和文化差异的相关概念的指标，使评估跨国婚姻对融合的影响变得复杂。为了将跨国婚姻的影响与少数民族成员的影响区分开来，我们不仅需要调查研究，还需要定性方法提供的更复杂的信息。该项目将重点关注英国两个最大的婚姻移民群体：巴基斯坦穆斯林和印度锡克教徒。为了反映这些人口和他们定居的地方的多样性，研究将集中在两个具有不同特征的地理区域：西约克郡和布里斯托。在项目的第一阶段，我们将分析现有的定量数据，以建立跨国婚姻与各种融合指标之间关系的背景图。然后，我们将与64对夫妇进行半结构化访谈，以生成一个新的定性数据体，探索定量数据中确定的相关过程，并确定新的查询途径。为了使跨国婚姻在这些过程中的作用脱颖而出，参与者将通过对兄弟姐妹与对比的婚姻选择，即其中一个兄弟姐妹的婚姻是跨国的，一个发生在英国的种族人口。这两个阶段的研究将使我们能够对这些重要人口的婚姻移民和融合过程之间的关系有细微的了解。区域之间和种族群体之间的比较将使我们能够确定特定背景下的影响，以及所有情况下的共同影响，因此也可能与其他移民配偶及其伴侣有关。这些理解的改善不仅对这一领域的学术研究是必要的，而且对提供服务和协助制定更有针对性的政策干预也是必要的。