Belonging after 'Brexit'? Exploring the effects of political uncertainty in the everyday lives of young Poles

本研究旨在探讨政治不确定性和归属感之间的关系，通过考虑这意味着什么是一个年轻的波兰移民在“脱欧”英国。它将解决“英国脱欧”的影响以及随之而来的反移民叙事，探索这在多大程度上为年轻的波兰人创造了归属感障碍。它将研究他们的日常生活，考虑到他们在跨地方/跨国网络中的位置，它将试图理解“归属”对非裔移民意味着什么。该研究将重点关注16-24岁的年轻波兰移民谁来到英国的孩子，使用叙事和半结构化的采访，结合视觉启发和参与，探索他们迄今为止的移民旅程的深入经验，以及他们目前的生活现实。参与者最初将通过纽卡斯尔的SMART（共同支持移民、寻求庇护者和难民）方案招募，并使用滚雪球抽样法招募更多的受访者。这项研究将在英格兰东北部进行，该地区绝大多数人投票离开欧盟;只有纽卡斯尔市投票保留。在19，000，虽然波兰出生的居民总数很小（霍金斯和摩西，2016），这是一个种族相对单一的地区，几乎没有移民的整体经验。这项研究旨在通过研究波兰人在日常生活中如何体验政治不确定性的影响，建立在以前对“英国脱欧”对年轻移民影响的研究基础上。

This research proposes to explore the relationship between political uncertainty and belonging byconsidering what it means to be a young Polish migrant in 'Brexit' Britain. It will address the impact of'Brexit' and the accompanying anti-migrant narrative, exploring to what extent this creates a barrier tobelonging for young Poles. It will examine their everyday lives considering their location intranslocal/transnational networks and it will seek to understand what 'belonging' means for youngmigrants. The research will focus on young Polish migrants aged 16-24 who came to the UK as children,using narrative and semi-structured interviews, in conjunction with visual elicitation and participantobservation, to explore in-depth experiences of their migration journeys to date, as well as their currentlived realities. Participants will be initially recruited via the SMART (Supporting Migrants, AsylumSeekers and Refugees Together) programme in Newcastle with snowball sampling being used to recruitfurther respondents. The research will be conducted within the North East of England, a region whichoverwhelmingly voted to leave the EU; only the city of Newcastle voted to remain. At 19,000, althoughthe overall number of Polish born residents is small (Hawkins and Moses, 2016), it is a region thatremains relatively ethnically homogenous with little overall experience of immigration. This study seeksto build on previous research into the impact of 'Brexit' upon young migrants by examining how youngPoles experience the effects of political uncertainty in their everyday lives.