Life at the Frontier: The Impact of Social Frontiers on the Social Mobility and Integration of Migrants

边疆生活：社会边疆对移民社会流动和融入的影响

• 批准号: ES/XX00012/1
• 负责人: Gwilym Pryce
• 金额: $ 58.67万
• 依托单位: NordForsk
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 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%2FXX00012%2F1
• 关键词: Life; Frontier; Impact; Social; Frontiers

The rise in international migration has brought important cultural and economic opportunities. It has also posed challenges, both for migrants and for wider society, in terms of integration and settlement, access to labour markets, housing and education.The aim of this project is to understand the role of so-called “social frontiers” in determining the social mobility and integration of migrants and other groups.Social frontiers arise when neighbouring communities are very different in terms of their cultural, ethnic and/or social make-up, and the spatial transition in these characteristics is abrupt, rather than gradual. Recent research finds that social frontiers are associated with higher levels of anxiety, depression and crime. Our concern is that social frontiers also impede education and employment outcomes, leading to lower social mobility.Successful integration entails migrants being able to achieve “outcomes within employment, housing, education, health etc. which are equivalent to those achieved within the wider host communities” (UK Home Office report, 2004). These outcomes are vital because they offer migrants and minority/marginalised groups the opportunity and freedom to advance in the labour and housing markets, and acquire the resources and opportunities needed to connect with wider society.One of the big challenges facing countries seeking to improve integration is that education and employment outcomes are related to where people live. However, the impact of neighbourhood boundaries—the areas of transition between communities—has received very little research attention. These boundaries could have important implications for social mobility and integration, particularly when they take the form of social frontiers.Our pioneering study will examine the impact of social frontiers on social mobility and their implications for integration using a combination of detailed qualitative research and pioneering quantitative methods.We shall achieve this by establishing a world-leading multidisciplinary research team spanning the UK, Norway, and Sweden. Working across multiple contexts creates opportunities to learn from best practice and experiences in each nation.The research team will also closely collaborate with a range of stakeholders at the local and national level. This engagement will maximise the relevance and accessibility of our research for public discourse and policy development.

国际移徙的增加带来了重要的文化和经济机会。它还对移民和更广泛的社会提出了在融合和定居、进入劳动力市场、住房和教育方面的挑战，本项目的目的是了解所谓的“社会边界”在决定移民和其他群体的社会流动和融合方面的作用。种族和/或社会构成，这些特征的空间转变是突然的，而不是渐进的。最近的研究发现，社会边界与更高程度的焦虑，抑郁和犯罪有关。我们关切的是，社会边界也阻碍教育和就业成果，导致社会流动性降低，成功融入社会意味着移民能够“在就业、住房、教育、保健等方面取得与更广泛的东道国社区内取得的成果相同的成果”（联合王国内政部报告，2004年）。这些成果至关重要，因为它们为移民和少数族裔/边缘化群体提供了在劳动力和住房市场取得进步的机会和自由，并获得与更广泛社会联系所需的资源和机会。寻求改善融合的国家面临的一个重大挑战是，教育和就业成果与人们居住的地方有关。然而，邻里边界社区之间的过渡领域的影响，很少得到研究的关注。这些边界可能对社会流动和融合产生重要影响，特别是当它们以社会边界的形式出现时。我们的开创性研究将使用详细的定性研究和开创性的定量方法相结合，探讨社会边界对社会流动的影响及其对融合的影响。我们将建立一个世界领先的跨学科研究团队，横跨英国，挪威，和瑞典跨多个背景的工作创造了学习每个国家最佳实践和经验的机会。研究团队还将与地方和国家层面的一系列利益相关者密切合作。这种参与将最大限度地提高我们的研究对公共话语和政策制定的相关性和可访问性。