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Algorithmic Politics and Administrative Justice in the EU Settlement Scheme

欧盟和解计划中的算法政治和行政司法

基本信息

批准号：
ES/V004506/1
负责人：
CLIVE BARNETT
金额：
$ 52.87万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV004506%2F1
关键词：
Algorithmic Politics Administrative Justice EU

项目摘要

The EUSS is the policy framework and an administrative procedure introduced in line with the Withdrawal Agreement ratified by the UK and EU in January 2020. It is designed to transfer EU, European Economic Area and Swiss residents and family members currently living in the UK into the UK's immigration system. The EUSS can also be used to facilitate entry into the UK for eligible family members. It is a constitutive system: with the exception of Irish citizens, all eligible residents living in the UK have to apply to it, or else they will lose their legal status in the country. The Home Office estimates that population eligible for the EUSS includes from 3.5 to 4.1 million people, but the exact figure remains unknown due to lack of data and movement of people. The EUSS is operated by the Home Office and opened to the public in spring 2019. The deadline for residents to apply, or lose their status, is 30 June 2021. The EUSS runs at least until 2026 to allow repeat applications for those granted only pre-settled status, which is temporary and affords lesser socioeconomic rights than the permanent settled status. This project approaches the EUSS as one example of a more widespread process of administrative reform in the post-Brexit context, and as intersecting with the digitalisation of administrative systems across government and the public sector in the UK and globally. As the prime example of digitalisation of immigration control in the UK, the EUSS has generated controversy concerning the consistency of its automated procedures with principles of administrative justice. These concerns are publicly articulated through the interaction between government agencies, statutory monitoring authorities, EU representatives, and civil society organisations. The public controversies around the EUSS revolve around issues of access to information and reliability of official reporting, which make it difficult to establish whether there are systematic inequalities in outcomes, and difficult to establish grounds for redress and review of the operation of the system. The EUSS is characterised by a systematic asymmetry between the administratively efficient processing of information and decisions, and the lack of accessibility for those engaging the system. The opacity of the EUSS is therefore central to the conceptual focus of this project, and it directly informs the methodological strategy of 'process tracing'. This has a dual aspect: an investigation of how information is processed in and around the EUSS system; and inquiry into how the forms of grievance that emerge from its operation give rise to organised forms of mobilisation, campaigning, and legal challenge. The research will contribute to understandings of three aspects of changing practices of governance after Brexit: i). given that the implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement between the UK and the EU remains an uncertain and contested field, the research will throw light on the evolution of the UK's relationship with the EU; ii). the EUSS provides a case study in the emergent politics of digital decision-making in the public administration of immigration in the UK, in light of the stated intention to design any new points-based immigration system as digital-only; iii). the EUSS provides a case study of the role of civil society organisations in shaping processes of redress and review of the structured inequalities generated by new systems of public administration and governance.

EUSS是根据英国和欧盟于2020年1月批准的《退出协定》而引入的政策框架和行政程序。它旨在将目前居住在英国的欧盟、欧洲经济区和瑞士居民及其家庭成员转移到英国的移民系统中。EUSS也可用于为符合条件的家庭成员进入英国提供便利。这是一个宪法制度：除了爱尔兰公民，所有居住在英国的符合条件的居民都必须申请，否则他们将失去在英国的法律地位。内政部估计，符合欧盟社会保障制度的人口包括350万至410万人，但由于缺乏数据和人员流动，确切数字仍不得而知。EUSS由内政部运营，于2019年春季向公众开放。居民申请或失去身份的最后期限是2021年6月30日。EUSS至少持续到2026年，允许那些只被授予预先定居身份的人重复申请，这是暂时的，提供的社会经济权利比永久定居身份更少。该项目将EUSS视为英国退欧后更广泛的行政改革进程的一个例子，并与英国和全球政府和公共部门的行政系统数字化相交。作为英国移民控制数字化的主要例子，欧盟移民服务局就其自动化程序与行政司法原则的一致性引发了争议。这些关切通过政府机构、法定监督机构、欧盟代表和民间社会组织之间的互动公开表达。围绕欧盟监督制度的公众争议集中在获取信息和官方报告的可靠性问题上，这使得很难确定结果中是否存在系统性的不平等，也很难确定纠正和审查该制度运作的理由。EUSS的特点是在行政上有效地处理信息和决策，与参与该系统的人缺乏可及性之间存在系统性的不对称。因此，EUSS的不透明是该项目概念重点的核心，它直接影响到“过程跟踪”的方法战略。这有两个方面：调查信息是如何在EUSS系统内和周围处理的；以及调查其运作中出现的各种形式的申诉如何引发有组织的动员、竞选和法律挑战。这项研究将有助于理解英国退欧后治理实践变化的三个方面：i)。鉴于英国和欧盟之间的退出协议的实施仍然是一个不确定和有争议的领域，这项研究将有助于揭示英国与欧盟关系的演变；ii)。欧洲移民服务体系提供了一个关于英国公共移民管理中数字决策的新兴政治的案例研究，因为它表明有意将任何新的以积分为基础的移民系统设计为仅限数字的；欧盟社会保障制度提供了一个案例研究，说明民间社会组织在制定补救进程和审查新的公共行政和治理制度造成的结构性不平等方面的作用。