Proposal to form the London International Development Centre Migration Leadership Team (LIDC-MLT)

据估计，超过10亿人是移民，生活在出生国内外。移民挑战目前在英国乃至整个欧洲和北美的选举政治中占据核心地位。它们是对外交政策、国家和国际安全以及国际人道主义和发展援助的考虑的基础。要了解当代世界移徙的驱动因素、动态和影响，就必须采取基础广泛、跨学科的办法，认识到日益复杂和多层次的移徙驱动因素和经验。尽管如此，移民研究受到了长期的巴尔干化的影响，学术和政策制定者基本上未能跨越学科、理论、方法和地理上的鸿沟相互学习(Hathaway 2007；Faist 2011，Perez 2017)。此外，对于如何有效地将研究与政策和做法联系起来、为其提供信息并对其产生影响，从而有助于促进关于移徙的安全和建设性决定、提供更多关于移徙的积极经验，以及为那些不愿迁徙的人创造可行的替代办法，也缺乏系统的认识。研究人员和从业人员在开发研究工具和政策工具方面面临挑战，这些工具和政策工具反映的是一个中心特征(经济和政治动态、移徙路线、旅行费用、过境和目的地地区的政策和法律环境)都在不断变化的领域。还需要评估已被证明有效的实现影响的工具，并确定通过研究人员、政策制定者和实践者之间更密切的合作和沟通产生影响的新方法。该项目将采用包容、协商的方法，评估ESRC和AHRC资助的现有研究组合的范围、成就和挑战，以确定进一步研究的战略机会和优先事项，并突出影响领域的最佳做法。利用伦敦国际发展中心学者的广泛跨学科专业知识，移民领导团队将与研究人员、政策制定者、从业人员、移民协会和艺术组织开展一系列研讨会、一对一访谈和小组讨论，以确定优先研究领域、已经或可能有希望产生影响的途径，以及可能有助于沟通和合作的平台。我们已经确定了我们将在调查中包括的一系列关键主题：1)移民研究和难民研究如何更有效地受益于各自所作的理论、方法和经验贡献？2)研究和政策如何更好地应对人员进入和跨越欧盟的持续流动，欧洲和英国之间的关系？3)如何利用研究更好地了解原籍国和地区的政治和经济危机，以及这项研究如何为政策和实践提供信息？4)关于日益关注原籍地区的移民管理和发展政策的有效性，新出现的证据告诉我们什么？5)在收集和汇编关于移民趋势和人口统计的数据方面，可以进行哪些改进和方法创新，以提高推动移民和发展政策的信息质量？我们的主要成果将是ESRC和AHRC支持移徙研究的建议战略，并辅之以对现有研究的范围研究、交互式决策支持工具、8份政策简报和2篇关于我们的方法方法的期刊文章。我们将使用视觉工具(例如漫画)来增强影响力。

More than 1 billion people are estimated to be migrants, living either inside or outside their country of birth. Migration challenges currently feature centrally in electoral politics in the UK, and indeed across Europe and North America. They underlie considerations about foreign policy, national and international security, and international humanitarian and development aid. Understanding the drivers, dynamics and impacts of migration in the contemporary world requires a broad-based and interdisciplinary approach which is cognizant of the increasingly complex and multi-scalar drivers and experiences of migration. Despite this, migration studies has suffered from a prolonged Balkanisation with academic and policy makers largely failing to step across disciplinary, theoretical, methodological and geographical divides to learn from one another (Hathaway 2007; Faist 2011, Perez 2017). There is also a lack of systematic understanding of the ways in which research can effectively be linked to, inform, and influence policy and practice to bring about positive results that could help facilitate safe and constructive decisions about migration, inform more positive experiences of movement, and lead to the creation of viable alternatives for those who would prefer not to move. Researchers and practitioners face challenges in developing research tools and policy instruments that reflect a field in which the central features (economic and political dynamics, migratory routes, costs of travel, policy and legal environments in transit and destination areas) are all constantly shifting. There is also a need to take stock of the tools for achieving impact that have been shown to be effective and to identify new ways of generating impact through closer collaboration and communication between researchers, policy-makers and practitioners. This project will use an inclusive, consultative approach to assessing the scope, achievements and challenges of the existing portfolio of ESRC and AHRC funded research to identify strategic opportunities and priorities for further research and to highlight best practice in the area of impact. Drawing on the extensive interdisciplinary expertise of scholars within the London International Development Centre, the Migration Leadership Team will engage in a series of workshops, one-on-one interviews, and panel discussions with researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, migrants associations and arts organisations to identify areas of research to prioritise, pathways to impact that have been, or are likely to be, promising, and platforms for communication and collaboration that are likely to help bridge research, policy, and public engagement. We have identified a series of key themes that we will include in our enquiry: 1) How can migration studies and refugee studies more effectively benefit from the theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions that each is making? 2) How can research and policy better respond to the continued movement of people into and across the European Union, and between Europe and the UK? 3) How can research be used to better understand political and economic crises in countries and regions of origin and how can this research inform policy and practice? 4) What does emerging evidence tell us about the effectiveness of migration management and development policy which increasingly focuses on regions of origin? 5) What improvements and methodological innovations can be made in the collection and compiling of data about migration trends and demographics to improve the quality of information that drives migration and development policy? Our main output will be a recommended strategy for the ESRC and AHRC for supporting migration research, supplemented by a scoping study on existing research, an interactive decision support tool, 8 policy briefs and 2 journal articles on our methodological approach. We will use visual tools (e.g. comics) to enhance impact.