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

在充满敌意的环境中孕育：从人种学研究到制定影响途径

• 批准号: ES/X006743/1
• 负责人: Rachel Benchekroun
• 金额: $ 13.88万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 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%2FX006743%2F1
• 关键词: Mothering; hostile; environment; ethnographic; research

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.

这项奖学金将通过一本书和一篇文章进一步影响我的博士研究，读者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性和移民感兴趣的学者。我的职业发展将包括公共参与、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的社会变革战略。我还将制定并提交一份研究计划，以扩大这项工作在奖学金之外的影响。这项研究建立在我的民族志博士研究的基础上，该研究表明，被“敌对环境”政策边缘化的少数族裔母亲的不安全移民身份如何限制了育儿、友谊和夫妻关系的实践。博士在理解可信赖的亲密关系和社会关系在获得支持和“做”归属和公民身份方面的中心地位方面做出了重大贡献。我发现，敌对的环境降低了对公共机构的信任，使母亲们在获得服务时感到不安全。这破坏了人际关系中的信任，影响了日常交往。因此，它限制了获得社会支持的机会，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，母亲必须处理关系和日常互动中的矛盾。例如，母亲必须平衡亲密的需要（通过自我表露）和隐私的需要；它们还必须在实际支助和资源方面的需要与在其网络中获得帮助的有限可能性之间取得平衡。在夫妻关系中，一些母亲不得不在照顾和被控制之间徘徊。这些结构性的紧张关系产生了持续的不安全感，往往使母亲更容易受到剥削。这个奖学金将使我能够广泛地分享我的发现，增加影响，影响公共政策和塑造实践——首先通过学术出版物、媒体文章和实践者/政策导向的文章，其次通过会议、演讲和知识交流研讨会直接与一系列受众接触。我的目标是提高一线从业人员对少数族裔母亲所面临的挑战的认识，这些母亲的移民身份没有保障，“无法诉诸公共资金”（NRPF）。奖学金活动将宣传移民身份如何影响关系实践和获得支持的途径，以及对儿童的影响。我将与从业人员进行对话，寻找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。在城市层面，我将与主要利益相关者接触，包括由gla领导的伦敦战略移民伙伴关系；主管社会融合、社会流动和社区参与的副市长；伦敦信托基金和伦敦议会。这项研究金还将使我能够通过参加关于自然保护区和移民法律与政策的所有党派议会小组，为国家一级的政策讨论作出贡献。我将通过在两个相关的国家和国际会议（如BSA和IMISCOE）和学术系列研讨会（包括社会科学家反对敌对环境）上就关键主题发表演讲，与学术观众分享我的研究。我将向会议提交关于该奖学金“影响途径”部分的摘要，以分享我对公众参与和影响政策的过程和结果的思考。

项目成果

Mothers Doing Friendship in a Hostile Environment: Navigating Dialectical Tensions and Sharing Support

母亲们在敌对环境中建立友谊：应对辩证的紧张局势并分享支持

• DOI: 10.1177/00380385231184812
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Sociology
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Benchekroun R

Strategic mothering in a hostile environment: how hostile immigration policies shape mothering, belonging and citizenship in the UK

敌对环境中的战略母性：敌对移民政策如何塑造英国的母性、归属感和公民身份

• DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2023.2193253
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Ethnic and Racial Studies
• 影响因子: 2.5
• 作者: Benchekroun R