Mothering in a hostile environment: from ethnographic research to crafting pathways to impact

该奖学金将通过一本书和针对包括教育和卫生从业人员，地方和国家政策制定者以及对母亲和移民感兴趣的学者在内的受众的文章，从我的博士研究中产生进一步的影响。我的职业发展将包括公众参与，合作制作和政策影响方面的培训，并与包括家庭在内的利益相关者合作，分享关键发现并制定积极社会变革的战略。我还将制定并提交一份研究计划，以扩大这项工作的影响超越奖学金。这项研究建立在我的民族志博士研究的基础上，该研究显示了种族少数母亲的不安全移民地位，被“敌对环境”政策边缘化，限制了母性，友谊和夫妻关系的做法。博士作出了重大贡献，以了解值得信赖的亲密和社会关系的中心地位，以获得支持和“做”归属感和公民身份。我发现，恶劣的环境降低了对公共机构的信任，使母亲们感到不安全，无法获得服务。这破坏了人际关系中的信任，影响了日常互动。因此，它限制了获得社会支助的机会，并对母亲及其子女的个人福祉产生了负面影响。我发现，在不同类型的关系中，母亲们必须在关系和日常互动中协商矛盾。例如，母亲必须在亲密需要（通过自我表露）与隐私需要之间取得平衡;她们还必须在实际支持和资源需要与其网络中获得帮助的有限可能性之间取得平衡。一些母亲不得不在夫妻关系中在照顾和被控制之间导航。这些结构性紧张局势产生了持续的不安全感，往往使母亲更容易受到剥削。这项研究金将使我能够广泛分享我的研究结果，增加影响，影响公共政策和塑造实践-首先是通过学术出版物，媒体文章和从业者/政策导向的文章，其次是通过会议直接与一系列受众接触，介绍和知识交流讲习班。我的目标是提高一线从业者对种族少数母亲所面临的挑战的认识，这些母亲的移民身份不安全，并且没有“公共资金”（NRPF）。奖学金活动将宣传移民身份如何影响关系做法和获得支助的机会，以及对儿童的影响。我将与从业人员进行对话，以找到方法，提高对因其地位而被边缘化的母亲和儿童的需求的敏感性，并获得更好的支持。我还将与地方、伦敦和国家层面的政策制定者接触。在一个或多个地方当局，我将确定适当的论坛，促进与理事会官员和地方决策者的讨论。在城市一级，我将与主要利益攸关方接触，包括GLA领导的伦敦战略移民伙伴关系;负责社会融合、社会流动和社区参与的副市长;伦敦信托基金和伦敦议会。我将通过参加NRPF和移民法律和政策的所有党派议会小组，为国家层面的政策讨论做出贡献。我将通过在两个相关的国家和国际会议（如BSA和IMISCOE）以及学术研讨会系列（包括社会科学家反对敌对环境）上就关键主题发表演讲，与学术界人士分享我的研究。我将提交摘要的会议上介绍的奖学金的“路径影响”链，以分享我的公众参与和影响政策的过程和结果的思考。

This fellowship will generate further impact from my doctoral research through a book and articles aimed at audiences including education and health practitioners, local and national policymakers, and scholars interested in motherhood and migration. My career development will include training in public engagement, co-production and policy impact, and work with stakeholders, including families, to share key findings and devise strategies for positive social change. I will also develop and submit a research proposal to extend the impact of this work beyond the fellowship. The research builds on my ethnographic PhD study which showed how the insecure immigration statuses of racially minoritised mothers, marginalised by the 'hostile environment' policy, constrain mothering, friendship and couple relationship practices. The PhD made significant contributions to understanding the centrality of trustworthy intimate and social relationships for accessing support and 'doing' belonging and citizenship. I found that the hostile environment reduced trust in public institutions, making mothers feel unsafe to access services. This undermined trust in personal relationships and affected everyday interactions. It therefore restricted access to social support and had negative effects on individual wellbeing, both for mothers and their children. I found that within different kinds of relationships, mothers had to negotiate contradictions in relationships and everyday interactions. For example, mothers had to balance the need for intimacy (through self-disclosure) with the need for privacy; they also had to balance needs for practical support and resources with limited possibilities for help in their networks. Some mothers had to navigate between care and being controlled in couple relationships. These structural tensions generated persistent feelings of insecurity, and often made mothers more vulnerable to exploitation.This fellowship would enable me to share my findings widely and increase impact, influencing public policy and shaping practice - firstly through academic publications, media articles and practitioner/policy-oriented articles, and secondly by engaging directly with a range of audiences through meetings, presentations and knowledge exchange workshops. I aim to raise awareness amongst frontline practitioners of the challenges faced by racially minoritised mothers whose immigration statuses are insecure and who have 'no recourse to public funds' (NRPF). The fellowship activities will publicise the ways in which immigration status affects relational practices and access to support, and the impact on children. I will engage in dialogue with practitioners to find ways to increase sensitivity to the needs of, and access to better support for, mothers and children who are marginalised by their status. I will also engage with policymakers at local, London and national levels. In one or more local authorities, I will identify suitable forums for contributing to discussions with council officers and local decision-makers. At the city level, I will engage with key stakeholders including the GLA-led London Strategic Migration Partnership; the Deputy Mayor for Social Integration, Social Mobility and Community Engagement; Trust for London, and London Councils. The fellowship will also allow me to contribute to policy discussions at the national level through participation in the All Party Parliamentary Groups on NRPF and Immigration Law and Policy.I will share my research with academic audiences by presenting on key topics at two relevant national and international conferences, such as BSA and IMISCOE, and at academic seminar series, including Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment. I will submit abstracts to conferences for presentations on the 'pathways to impact' strand of the fellowship, in order to share my reflections on the process and outcomes of public engagement and influencing policy.