Feyli Kurds in The United Kingdom: Migration, Integration, and Transnationalism

Feylis人，也被称为Feyli库尔德人，移民后的经历在对英国伊拉克侨民群体的研究中被忽视了。很难找到专门对这个具有历史意义的民族宗教群体感兴趣的学术文献。考虑到对亚述人和雅兹迪人等其他伊拉克散居族裔的大量学术关注，这一研究差距是惊人的（King, 2005; Cook et al., 2021）。本研究旨在通过分析社会整合模式和社会边界的创建或维护来帮助弥合这一差距（Wimmer, 2013）。它还探讨了Feylis与他们的直接社区的社会关系，以及他们在英国经历的跨国联系。在这方面，本研究将试图了解费伊利社区的社会融合，以及他们在散居海外时如何设法保留其宗教和种族身份，通过结合民族志和档案方法来确定该社区在英国的社会文化和政治地位。在此过程中，本研究将展示英国Feyli社区的经验如何推动围绕融合的辩论。还将研究政府政策对这一进程的影响。

The post-migration experience of the Feylis, also known as Feyli Kurds, has been overlooked in the studies of Iraqi diaspora groups in the United Kingdom. It is difficult to find scholarly literature exclusively interested in this historically significant ethno-religious group. This research gap is striking considering the substantial academic focus that has been given to other Iraqi diaspora ethnic groups such as the Assyrians and the Yazidis (King, 2005; Cook et al., 2021). This study aims to help bridge this gap by analysing social integration patterns and the creation or maintenance of social boundaries (Wimmer, 2013). It also explores Feylis' social ties with their immediate communities as well as their transnational connections as part of their experience in the United Kingdom. In this respect, the research will attempt to understand the social integration of Feyli community and the ways they have managed to retain their religious and ethnic identities in the diaspora through combining ethnographic and archival methods to identify the socio-cultural and political status of the community in the United Kingdom. In doing so, this research will demonstrate how the experience of the Feyli community in the UK may advance the debates arounds integration. The impact of government policy on this process will also be studied.