Here to Stay? Identity, belonging and citizenship among Eastern European settled migrant children in the UK (a decade after EU Enlargement)

项目重点过去十年来来到英国的东欧人是英国人口增长最快的族群。这项研究将是第一个专门关注在英国生活了至少三年的东欧移民儿童的研究，并比较他们在苏格兰和英格兰的日常生活和文化意识、民族认同感和归属感。这项研究的主要目的是为公众辩论、政策制定者和服务提供者提供有关在英国定居的东欧移民子女问题的信息。该研究将通过探索与英国移民、身份和公民身份等不同话语相关的定居移民儿童的经历，并确保在当前关于国家身份的辩论中考虑到“新”少数群体儿童的声音，从而促进社会包容。定居的流动儿童的视角帮助我们了解他们是否正在融入当地社区的文化，并可以突出他们的社会生活的空间和时间维度以及未来的机会。种族和散居身份、归属感、跨国主义、文化和民族等概念在整个欧洲都有了新的含义，在讨论国家身份和社会包容时，需要重新评估和质疑。通过将关于移民和移民群体融合的话语与儿童在日常互动中如何体验这些话语的知识结合在一起，这项研究将产生关于英国新少数民族儿童及其长期融合经验的新知识。该研究以在英国生活3年以上的东欧移民的12-18岁儿童为研究对象，将对移民儿童的长期定居经历、探索家庭、同伴和社区社会网络提供独特的理解。调查的另一个关键领域将是儿童在其使用的一系列服务方面所表达的需求、获得服务的问题以及服务满足其需求的程度。第三，我们将探讨的因素，使东欧移民的孩子适应新的社会，经济和政治背景下，他们所生活的地区，因为他们谈判国家，社会，文化和政治身份在不断变化的欧洲的背景下。数据将通过对现有证据的审查、对英国六个城市、半城市/农村地区的500-600名儿童的调查以及对70-100名儿童的焦点小组的调查来产生。还将对16-20个家庭进行深入的个案研究。一个青年咨询小组将在项目发展和传播方面发挥中心作用。原创性，对知识的贡献和预期的影响该项目的原创性源于对生活在不同地理空间的东欧儿童在地方、国家和全球层面上参与理解世界的持续、动态过程的方式的考虑。这项研究将填补关于新定居移民社区信息方面的空白，以期为政策和实践提供信息。关于定居移民儿童的社会实践、教育成就和愿望、文化和民族认同感和归属感的信息，将在政策、政治和公共话语中流通的各种“国家”代表的背景下，为欧洲移民社区在英国的融合程度提供见解。这项研究将解决移民儿童在公共辩论中相对缺乏声音的问题，并使政策制定者和公众更好地了解那些最初是移民但长期定居在英国的儿童的生活。将广泛传播这些资料，以使儿童、服务提供者、决策者和一般公众受益。

Focus of the projectEastern Europeans who have arrived in the UK in the last decade are the fastest growing ethnic groups in the UK. This study will be the first to focus specifically on Eastern European migrant children who have lived in the UK for at least three years, and to compare their everyday lives and sense of cultural and national identity and belonging in Scotland and England. The primary aim of the research is to inform public debate, policy makers and service providers on the issue of children of Eastern European migrants settled in Britain. The study will promote social inclusion, by exploring the experiences of settled migrant children in relation to the distinct discourses around migration, identity and citizenship in the UK and by ensuring that voices of children from the 'new' minority groups are taken into account in current debates on national identity. Settled migrant children's perspectives help us understand whether or not they are being socialised into their local communities' culture and can highlight the spatial and temporal dimensions of their social lives and opportunities for future. Concepts of ethnic and diasporic identity, belonging, transnationalism, culture and nation are taking new meanings across Europe and need reassessment and questioning when discussing national identity and social inclusion.Evidence to be produced By bringing together discourses on migration and integration of migrant groups with knowledge on how children experience these discourses in their everyday interactions, the study will generate new knowledge on the UK's new ethnic minority children and their long-term experiences of integration. Focussing on children aged 12-18 of Eastern European migrants living in the UK for 3+ years, the study will provide a unique understanding on migrant children's long term experiences of settlement, exploring family, peer and community social networks. Another key area of investigation will be children's expressed needs in terms of the array of services they use, issues in access and the extent to which services are meeting their needs. Third, we will explore the factors that enable children of Eastern European migrants to adapt to the new social, economic and political context of the regions in which they live, as they negotiate national, social, cultural and political identities in the context of a changing Europe. Data will be generated through a review of existing evidence, a survey of between 500-600 children across six urban, semi-urban/rural areas in the UK and focus groups with between 70-100 children. In depth case studies 16-20 families will also be conducted. A young people's advisory group will have a central role in the project development and dissemination.Originality, contribution to knowledge and anticipated impactThe originality of the project stems from the consideration given to the ways in which Eastern European children living in diverse geographical spaces are engaged in on-going, dynamic processes of making sense of the world, and their place within it, at local, national and global levels. The study will fill a gap in information on newly settled migrant communities, with a view of informing policy and practice. Information on settled migrant children's social practices, educational achievement and aspirations, sense of cultural and national identity and belonging will provide insights into the extent of European migrant communities' integration in the UK, in the context of various representations of 'nation' that circulate in policy, political and public discourses. The study will address the relative absence of migrant children's voices in public debates and provide policy makers and the public with an improved understanding of the lives of children who were originally migrants, but have settled long-term in the UK. This information will be disseminated widely, to benefit children, service providers, policy makers and the general public.