Navigating the Labyrinth: The impact and experiences of the Syrian refugee resettlement programme in comparative policy contexts

穿越迷宫：比较政策背景下叙利亚难民重新安置计划的影响和经验

• 批准号: ES/X006409/1
• 负责人: Hannah Haycox
• 金额: $ 12.97万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX006409%2F1
• 关键词: Navigating; Labyrinth; impact; experiences; Syrian

The Syrian civil war has been described as resulting in 'the biggest humanitarian...crisis of our time' (UNHCR, 2017a: 4). By the end of 2013, UNHCR had registered over 6 million displaced people due to the conflict (UNHCR, 2013), resulting in an unprecedented average of 9,500 people being forced to leave their homes in Syria each day (Albuja et al., 2014). Established in 2014 and subsequently expanded in 2015, the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) was introduced by the UK government to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees between 2015-2020, with a primary focus on maintaining family units. Since the creation of the VPRS, 20,007 people have been resettled as part of the programme, with half of the recipients aged under 18 at the time of arrival (Wilkins, 2020) and 99.6% of refugees self-identifying as of Syrian nationality (Bolt, 2020). Distinct from the UK mainstream asylum system, recipients of the resettlement scheme were granted immediate recourse to public funds, temporary residency and permission to work.My doctoral research is the first to compare two different local Council approaches to the VPRS, from a perspective that evaluates the impact and experiences of policy. Prior research has tended to focus on the VPRS as perpetuating a two-tier system of asylum (see Karyotis et al, 2020), rarely unpacking both the processes by which policy is formulated, and its entailing consequences in the lives of recipients. Drawing on forty in-depth interviews with Syrian families and practitioners, my research provides a vital contribution to existing knowledge on resettlement, by exploring both the rationale behind policy design, and its subsequent impact on recipients as individuals, and within families. This project seeks to further enhance the valuable impact of my research by delivering a programme of activities to academic audiences, policymakers, refugee community organisations (RCOs) and the broader public. It will consolidate my publication record through the production of two key academic outputs: firstly; a book manuscript and, secondly; a high-impact, journal article. The book manuscript will be targeted towards Policy Press following preliminary discussions with the editor, with the journal article submitted to the Journal of Refugee Studies. The empirical data consolidated during this project will be disseminated to an international academic audience at the 'International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion' conference (IMISCOE), Europe's largest network of researchers in the area of migration and integration. Over the duration of the fellowship, the project will also shed light on the micro and macro experiences of VPRS refugees through mixed-methods research, an area of scholarship that is surprisingly limited on the topic of resettlement. Existing interview data collected with refugee families and practitioners during my doctorate will be integrated with Census, survey and Home Office data. The pursuit of further limited research will not only consolidate the data collected as part of my ESRC-funded doctorate, but will advance my long-term career aspirations by enhancing my existing quantitative research methods training.Two impact activities will also be implemented: firstly; a public policy workshop and secondly; providing expert commentary through media engagement. The public policy workshop will facilitate constructive dialogues between policy practitioners, refugee organisations and researchers. Creative methods will be used to prompt discussions and a two-page policy 'toolkit' will be produced and distributed widely to local Councils. The evidence disseminated during my expert commentary on the BBC North-West Tonight News will include the open-access Census, survey and Home Office data analysed as a result of this fellowship, but will exclude any references to interview transcripts or fieldwork sites to protect participants' confidentiality.

叙利亚内战被描述为导致“我们时代最大的人道主义...危机”（难民署，2017a：4）。到2013年底，由于冲突，难民专员办事处已登记超过600万流离失所的人（难民署，2013年），导致9,500人每天被迫在叙利亚离开家中的9,500人（Albuja等，2014）。英国政府在2015 - 2020年之间建立了成立于2014年，随后于2015年扩展，脆弱的人重新安置计划（VPRS）在2015 - 2020年之间重新安置20,000名叙利亚难民，主要重点是维持家庭单位。自从VPR创建以来，有20,007人被重新安置为该计划的一部分，一半的接收者在抵达时（Wilkins，2020年）年龄在18岁以下（Wilkins，2020年）和99.6％的难民自我识别为叙利亚国籍（Bolt，2020年）。与英国主流庇护系统不同，安置计划的接受者立即求助于公共资金，临时居留和工作许可。我的博士研究是第一个从评估政策影响和经验的角度来比较VPRS的两种不同地方议会方法。先前的研究倾向于关注VPRS，因为它使庇护的两层系统永存（参见Karyotis等人，2020年），很少拆除制定政策的过程，并在接收者的生活中产生带来的后果。通过对叙利亚家庭和从业人员进行的40次深入访谈，我的研究通过探索政策设计背后的基本原理以及随后对个人和家庭内部的接收者的影响，为现有的重新安置知识做出了重要贡献。该项目旨在通过向学术观众，政策制定者，难民社区组织（RCO）和更广泛的公众提供一系列活动，以进一步增强我的研究的宝贵影响。它将通过生产两个关键的学术成果来巩固我的出版记录：首先；一本书手稿，其次；高影响力的期刊文章。在与编辑的初步讨论之后，本书手稿将针对政策媒体，并提交给《难民研究杂志》。在该项目期间合并的经验数据将在欧洲最大的移民和整合领域研究人员网络“国际移民，整合和社会凝聚力”会议上传播给国际学术受众。在团契期间，该项目还将通过混合方法研究来阐明VPRS难民的微观和宏观经历，这是一个奖学金领域，这一领域令人惊讶地限制了重新安置的主题。在我的博士学位期间，与难民家庭和从业人员收集的现有访谈数据将与人口普查，调查和家庭办公室数据集成在一起。追求进一步有限的研究不仅将巩固作为我ESRC资助的博士学位的一部分收集的数据，而且还将通过加强我现有的定量研究方法培训来提高我的长期职业愿望。还将实施两个影响活动：首先；公共政策研讨会，其次；通过媒体参与提供专家评论。公共政策研讨会将促进政策从业人员，难民组织和研究人员之间的建设性对话。创意方法将用于提示讨论，并将生产两页的政策“工具包”并广泛分配给地方议会。在我对BBC西北今晚新闻的专家评论中传播的证据将包括该研究金的开放式人口普查，调查和家庭办公室数据，但将排除对面试成绩单或实地考察网站的任何参考，以保护参与者的机密性。