Left behind? Precarity, stigma and migration in a post-industrial colliery town

被留下来？

• 批准号: ES/V007149/1
• 负责人: James Pattison
• 金额: $ 12.1万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV007149%2F1
• 关键词: Left; behind; Precarity; stigma; migration

This fellowship will facilitate the publication of my PhD research in high-ranking academic journal and the submission of funding bids to support my burgeoning academic career. I have already begun to establish myself as a researcher and teacher but need to develop publications to demonstrate my abilities to funders and employers. This fellowship will also enable me to construct a timely, novel and essential research project on post-Brexit Britain. Finally, this fellowship will also enable me to communicate PhD research findings amongst the communities I studied which will enhance the potential impact of my research and future co-production.My PhD research investigated class, race and migration in Shirebrook, Derbyshire - a small and relatively isolated former colliery town. As part of the regeneration work intended to offset the impact of the colliery's closure, Shirebrook has become the home of Sports Direct's main distribution warehouse. The vast majority of the 3,000 warehouse workers are Eastern European migrants who are low-paid and employed on temporary recruitment agency contracts. Sports Direct has also been at the centre of well-publicised controversies relating to working conditions, which includes constant surveillance, bullying and daily body searches. Their working conditions stand in sharp contrast to the way in which Shirebrook colliery was central to the development of the town and played a significant role in the cultivation of local social citizenship via the Coal Board's active engagement in everyday life. In fact, despite being located in Shirebrook, Sports Direct draws the majority of itsworkers via two employment agencies based in Mansfield and contributes little to daily life in Shirebrook. My PhD research revealed that, although it was migration that was constructed as the social problem affecting the town by local and central government, it was broader structural inequalities that were most at issue. This manifested in increasing tensions in Shirebrook between established and migrant residents, and also led to locally focussed policies designed to tackle social issues which are actually symptoms of much broader structural inequalities.The political terrain is rapidly changing in Shirebrook and the surrounding area, even in the short-period since my thesis submission in 2019. The 2016 EU referendum saw one of the largest leave votes in the country in Bolsover (70.8%); and the general election in December 2019 saw Bolsover elect a Conservative candidate based on the party's election promise to 'get Brexit done' for the first time since it became a constituency in 1950. Sports Direct's use of agency workers and Shirebrook's ageing population means that migrant labour is drawn into Shirebrook to meet the staffing demands of the warehouse. Changes in freedom of movement from 1 January 2021, likely to include an earnings threshold, will effectively cut off Sports Direct's labour supply of low-wage workers from Eastern Europe. Therefore, the research I have already done in Shirebrook provides a strong basis for future novel research to investigate the impact Brexit will have on small towns, and will provide valuable knowledge on post-Brexit Britain. The proposed research will consider the impact on both Shirebrook and Mansfield into whose local labour market Sports Direct has been drawn.My aims are to: Submit publications and present my findings at international conferences to further establish a research profile and develop academic networks Develop a funding proposal for future research in Shirebrook, submitted to the ESRC New Investigator Grant and Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship Engage and share research findings with non-academic stakeholders in order to develop networks and impact opportunities Take on further training in order to develop my overall academic skills

该奖学金将促进我在高级学术期刊上发表博士研究，并提交资助投标以支持我蓬勃发展的学术生涯。我已经开始将自己定位为一名研究员和教师，但需要出版出版物来向资助者和雇主展示我的能力。这项奖学金还将使我能够构建一个关于英国脱欧后的及时、新颖且重要的研究项目。最后，这项奖学金还将使我能够在我研究的社区中交流博士研究成果，这将增强我的研究和未来合作生产的潜在影响。我的博士研究调查了德比郡夏尔布鲁克的阶级、种族和移民——一个相对偏僻的小前煤矿小镇。作为旨在抵消煤矿关闭影响的重建工作的一部分，Shirebrook 已成为 Sports Direct 主要配送仓库的所在地。 3000名仓库工人中的绝大多数是东欧移民，他们工资低，并通过临时招聘机构合同受雇。 Sports Direct 也一直是与工作条件有关的广为人知的争议的中心，其中包括持续的监视、欺凌和日常搜身。他们的工作条件与希尔布鲁克煤矿是该镇发展的核心并通过煤炭委员会积极参与日常生活而在培养当地社会公民方面发挥着重要作用的方式形成鲜明对比。事实上，尽管位于夏尔布鲁克，Sports Direct 通过位于曼斯菲尔德的两家职业介绍所吸引了大部分工人，对夏尔布鲁克的日常生活贡献甚微。我的博士研究表明，尽管地方和中央政府将移民视为影响城镇的社会问题，但最重要的问题是更广泛的结构性不平等。这体现在夏尔布鲁克的定居居民和移民居民之间的紧张关系日益加剧，也导致了旨在解决社会问题的以当地为重点的政策，这些问题实际上是更广泛的结构性不平等的症状。即使是在我 2019 年提交论文以来的短时间内，夏尔布鲁克及周边地区的政治格局正在迅速变化。2016 年的欧盟公投是该国最大的脱欧投票之一。 博尔索弗 (70.8%)； 2019 年 12 月的大选中，博尔索弗根据该党自 1950 年成为选区以来首次“完成脱欧”的选举承诺，选出了一名保守党候选人。Sports Direct 使用中介工人，加上夏尔布鲁克人口老龄化，意味着移民劳工被吸引到夏尔布鲁克，以满足仓库的人员配置需求。自 2021 年 1 月 1 日起，行动自由度的变化可能包括收入门槛，这将有效切断 Sports Direct 对东欧低工资工人的劳动力供应。因此，我已经在希尔布鲁克所做的研究为未来调查英国脱欧对小城镇影响的新颖研究提供了坚实的基础，并将提供有关英国脱欧后的宝贵知识。拟议的研究将考虑对 Shirebrook 和 Mansfield 当地劳动力市场 Sports Direct 的影响。我的目标是： 提交出版物并在国际会议上展示我的研究结果，以进一步建立研究概况并发展学术网络 为 Shirebrook 的未来研究制定资助提案，提交给 ESRC 新研究员补助金和 Leverhulme 早期职业奖学金 与非学术利益相关者接触并分享研究成果 发展人际网络并影响机会 接受进一步培训以发展我的整体学术技能

项目成果

'The whole of Shirebrook got put on an ASBO': The co-production of territorial stigma in a former colliery town

“整个夏尔布鲁克都被套上了ASBO”：在一个前煤矿小镇上共同制造了领土耻辱

• DOI: 10.1177/0308518x211048198
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Economy and Space
• 作者: Pattison J

"You don't go there": Spatial Strategies of Stigma Negotiation in a Post-Industrial Town

• DOI: 10.1111/anti.12930
• 发表时间: 2023-02-14
• 期刊: ANTIPODE
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Pattison，James