Post-migration transitions and pathways to citizenship for EU youth in the UK amidst Brexit debates, challenges and anticipations

在脱欧辩论、挑战和预期中，英国欧盟青年的移民后过渡和获得公民身份的途径

• 批准号: ES/V001124/1
• 负责人: Katherine Botterill
• 金额: $ 53.55万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV001124%2F1
• 关键词: Post; migration; transitions; pathways; citizenship

This study will be the first UK-wide study of EU-born young people's (aged 16-26) experiences of education, work and training in the context of the UK withdrawal from the EU. The number of young people from Europe growing up in UK has risen sharply over past 15 years, particularly since the accession of 10 East-Central European states to the EU. These young people have spent their formative years experiencing multiple transitions and border-crossings related to moving home, learning English, changing education systems, finding work in a precarious and austere economic climate and forming key relationships in the context of divisive political rhetoric surrounding immigration. How do this sizeable cohort of young people navigate these transitions in different parts of the UK, as they develop plans for the future and pathways to citizenship? Existing inequalities in education and employment, combined with new challenges fuelled by Brexit, are shaping the choices of EU nationals about whether to remain or leave the UK (Lulle et al., 2016; King & Williams, 2017), with a dramatic decline in the level of EU immigration since the Brexit referendum in 2016 (ONS, 2019). Given the positive fiscal impact of EU migration to the UK and the reliance on this labour supply in key sectors of the economy (Wadsworth, 2018), there is an urgent need to better understand young people's education and employment trajectories and how employers are planning for and responding to potential changes in workforce demographics after Brexit.A multi-disciplinary team of researchers will combine expertise in migration and population studies, education and social policy to design and produce a series of significant research outcomes. First, the study will review the evidence on educational and employment pathways and challenges for EU-born young people through a systematic analysis of existing data sets and targeted, sustained engagement with practitioners and policy makers to identify key policy and practice challenges. Second, the study will produce new longitudinal data over a 3-year period on the changing aspirations, experiences and outcomes of EU-born young people in education, training and employment to highlight how their plans evolve and what barriers they face and sometimes overcome.Third, the study will use a participatory research approach to explore young people's perceptions and experiences of settlement and citizenship in all four nations of the UK, in the context of Brexit. Involving young people as co-researchers, the study will explore their aspirations for the future; sense of belonging and citizenship in the UK; perspectives on potential constitutional change in the UK and the EU; and engagements with social movements and digital activism. The research offers original data on how EU-born young people living in diverse geographical locations adapt to the multiple transitions of growing up as a migrant in the context of regional political transformation. We will consider how these dynamics actively shape pathways to citizenship and a sense of belonging in the UK, or particular parts of it. The proposed study fills a gap in research by employing an intersectional approach to analysing EU-born young people's experience of Brexit alongside key youth transitions, with potential to inform UK-wide and devolved policy and practice tackling the challenge of youth marginalisation and migrant integration. In depth longitudinal data on young people's educational aspirations, work experiences and citizenship practices will provide insight into how 'integrated' EU-born migrant youth feel in different nations of the UK, connected to various representations of 'nation' that circulate in policy, political and public discourses. Importantly, the study will also address the relative absence of migrant youth voices in public debate and provide policy makers and the public with a more rigorous understand of the everyday lives of young migrants.

这项研究将是英国首次在英国脱欧背景下对欧盟出生的年轻人（16-26 岁）的教育、工作和培训经历进行研究。过去 15 年，特别是自 10 个中东欧国家加入欧盟以来，在英国长大的欧洲年轻人数量急剧增加。这些年轻人在成长的岁月里经历了与搬家、学习英语、改变教育体系、在不稳定和严峻的经济环境中寻找工作以及在围绕移民的分裂政治言论的背景下建立关键关系有关的多重转变和跨境。在英国不同地区，这一大批年轻人在制定未来计划和获得公民身份的途径时，如何应对这些转变？现有的教育和就业不平等，加上英国脱欧带来的新挑战，正在影响欧盟国民关于是否留在英国或离开英国的选择（Lulle等人，2016年；King＆Williams，2017年），自2016年英国脱欧公投以来，欧盟移民水平急剧下降（ONS，2019年）。鉴于欧盟移民对英国的积极财政影响以及关键经济部门对劳动力供应的依赖（Wadsworth，2018），迫切需要更好地了解年轻人的教育和就业轨迹，以及雇主如何规划和应对英国脱欧后劳动力人口结构的潜在变化。一个多学科研究团队将结合移民和人口研究、教育和社会政策方面的专业知识，设计和制作一系列 重大研究成果。首先，该研究将通过对现有数据集的系统分析以及与从业者和政策制定者的有针对性的持续接触来审查欧盟出生的年轻人的教育和就业途径以及挑战的证据，以确定关键的政策和实践挑战。其次，该研究将在三年内生成新的纵向数据，了解欧盟出生的年轻人在教育、培训和就业方面不断变化的愿望、经历和结果，以突出他们的计划如何演变以及他们面临和有时克服的障碍。第三，该研究将采用参与式研究方法来探讨英国脱欧背景下年轻人对英国所有四个国家的定居和公民身份的看法和经历。该研究将由年轻人作为共同研究人员，探讨他们对未来的渴望；英国的归属感和公民身份；对英国和欧盟潜在宪法变革的看法；以及参与社会运动和数字行动主义。该研究提供了关于生活在不同地理位置的欧盟出生的年轻人如何适应区域政治转型背景下移民成长的多重转变的原始数据。我们将考虑这些动态如何积极塑造英国或其特定地区的公民身份和归属感。拟议的研究通过采用交叉方法来分析欧盟出生的年轻人在英国脱欧和关键青年转型方面的经历，填补了研究空白，有可能为英国范围内应对青年边缘化和移民融合挑战的权力下放政策和实践提供信息。关于年轻人的教育愿望、工作经验和公民实践的深入纵向数据将提供深入了解欧盟出生的移民青年在英国不同国家的“融合”感受，与政策、政治和公共话语中流传的各种“国家”代表相关。重要的是，该研究还将解决公共辩论中青年移民声音相对缺失的问题，并为政策制定者和公众提供对青年移民日常生活的更严格的了解。