Housing in a Hostile Environment: A Critical Study of the Provision of Asylum Seeker Housing under the COMPASS Contracts and its Effects on Subjecthoo

敌对环境中的住房：根据 COMPASS 合同提供寻求庇护者住房及其对主题的影响的批判性研究

• 批准号: 2261334
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of St Andrews
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2261334
• 关键词: Housing; Hostile; Environment; Critical; Study

This project will explore the complexities of the UK Home Office's COMPASS contract for asylum seeker housing provision in Scotland at a crucial juncture in the contract's lifespan. It will build upon work investigating the UK Government's implementation of border regimes in housing legislation and policy by Crawford et al., 2016, Leahy et al 2018 and the wholesale privatization of asylum seeker housing through the COMPASS[1] contracts by Darling, 2016a, 2016b. My research will critically examine the contracting of the care of vulnerable persons to private corporations, specifically the impact of this contract upon the frontline staff who enact it and the asylum seekers who live under it. This will be undertaken through a critical examination of legislation, policy and contract documents, as well as semi-structured interviews with housing provider staff and asylum-seeking residents in Scotland. The project will be of particular significance for the academic disciplines of migration and border studies, human geography and social policy. It will, however, also be relevant to housing policy and practice, in that it evaluates the perspectives of people both working with and living under this particular contract. It is intended, therefore, to contribute to a greater understanding both of migration and of the privatization of welfare and housing - crucially, as a means of provision for a particularly vulnerable social group.

该项目将在合同生命周期的关键时刻探索英国内政部在苏格兰提供寻求庇护者住房的COMPASS合同的复杂性。它将建立在调查英国政府在住房立法和政策中实施边境制度（Crawford等人，2016年）和Leahy等人（2018年）以及Darling （2016a, 2016b）通过COMPASS bbb10合同对寻求庇护者住房进行大规模私有化的工作基础上。我的研究将批判性地审视私营公司对弱势群体的照顾承包，特别是对制定该合同的一线工作人员和生活在该合同下的寻求庇护者的影响。这项工作将通过严格审查立法、政策和合同文件，以及与苏格兰住房提供者工作人员和寻求庇护的居民进行半结构化访谈来进行。该项目对移民与边境研究、人文地理和社会政策等学科具有特别重要的意义。然而，它也将与住房政策和实践相关，因为它评估了与这个特定合同一起工作和生活的人的观点。因此，它的目的是促进对移徙和福利和住房私有化的更大了解- -至关重要的是，作为向特别脆弱的社会群体提供服务的一种手段。