Vigilant Citizens: Voluntary Border Patrols as Political Participation on the Kent Coast

这项拟议的项目涉及英国肯特郡自组织的边境巡逻团体中新出现的义务警员做法。通过民族志田野调查、访谈和档案研究，我将评估这些群体如何理解他们在治国和建立边界政治方面的角色，以及这如何与塑造国家归属感的主流努力相联系。该项目位于英国脱欧后不久的时代，将在英国历史上“反入侵”的海防背景下分析巡逻，研究过去的形象和叙事如何影响当代的动机。该项目考虑了政治转型时期的国家认同问题。通过田野调查和对巡逻成员、政策制定者、巡逻官员和其他无关个人的采访，该项目将有助于理解一个有争议的新兴现象。该项目有助于学术和政策讨论移民问题，以及在现代民族国家在治安方面存在缺陷的背景下，针对移民的超常活动的辩论。

The proposed project concerns emerging vigilante practices among self-organised border patrolgroups in Kent, England. Through ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and archival research, I willassess how these groups understand their role relative to the politics of statecraft and border-making, and how this links with mainstream efforts to shape national belonging. Situated in theimmediate post-Brexit era, the project will analyse patrols in the context of historical 'anti-invasion'coastal defence in England, studying how imagery and narratives of the past inform contemporarymotivations.The project considers questions of national identity in a febrile period of political transition. Throughfieldwork and interviews with patrol members, policy makers, patrol officials, and other unaffiliatedindividuals, it will contribute to an understanding of a contentious emergent phenomenon. Theproject contributes to academic and policy discussion on migration and debates on extralegalactivity targeting migrants against a backdrop of perceived deficits in policing by a modern nationstate.