Understanding trans* asylum seekers' experiences of UK border practices

了解跨性别*寻求庇护者在英国边境实践中的经历

• 批准号: 2876745
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2876745
• 关键词: Understanding; trans; asylum; seekers; experiences

Trans* asylum seekers in the UK are acutely marginalized by the UK's asylum system. As asylum seekers they face the structural violence of UK border policies that extend border policing throughout UK society in ways that create racialised and class precarity in areas from employment, and housing to healthcare. For trans* asylum seekers this violence is further exacerbated not only by the notoriously low rate at which gender identity asylum claims are accepted by the Home Office but by a wider maze of bureaucratic hurdles and misgendering that further undermine their safety and access to support in domestic British society. Yet, despite the intersectional nature of the challenges trans* asylum seekers face, even sympathetic existing research does little to engage with their lived experiences, perspectives and agency in relation to the UK border system. This is not only a gap in the academic literature but also limits our understanding of how they navigate theUK's existing migration policies and how these might be made less exclusionary.In response to this, my research will foreground trans* asylum seekers lived experiences of UK border practices through use of multi-sited ethnography. Through this I will both draw further attention to the specific ways existing policies exacerbate trans* Asylum seekers' marginalization and the strategies they use to negotiate the UK border system.In doing this I will show how structures of class, race, coloniality and gender interact with the UK border as a transnational site that produces particularly western understandings of transness and cis-normativity. Through this I hope to contribute to the task of decolonizing European trans studies by highlighting the ways domestic western conceptualizations of transness are not a neutral pregiven object of analysis but rather actively enforced and reproduced through border practices which permeate domestic UK society. In this I will also contribute to wider theoretical debates in International Relations on borders as socially produced phenomena by foregrounding the role of cis-normativity in constituting border practices in ways that transcend the conventional distinction between domestic and international politics. Methodologically I will perform a multi-sited ethnography comprised of initial critical discourse analysis of relevant policy documents, embedded participant observation with organizations that support trans* asylum seekersand semi-structured interviews with trans* asylum seekers and key policy makers identified during the participant observation.Through this I hope contribute to wider theoretical debates on the colonial production of transness sand cis-normativity and the domestic/international distinction in International politics. Beyond this I will also provide clear policy recommendations for local and national level policy actors on reducing their marginalization trans* asylum seekers and hope to contribute to shifting academic and policy discussions to being with rather than about trans asylum seekers.

在英国的跨性别寻求庇护者被英国的庇护制度严重边缘化。作为寻求庇护者，他们面临着英国边境政策的结构性暴力，这些政策将边境警务扩展到整个英国社会，在就业、住房和医疗保健等领域造成种族化和阶级不稳定。对于跨性别寻求庇护者来说，这种暴力行为进一步加剧，不仅是因为内政部接受性别认同庇护申请的比例极低，而且还因为更迷宫官僚障碍和性别歧视，进一步损害了他们的安全和获得支持的机会。英国国内社会。然而，尽管跨性别寻求庇护者面临的挑战具有交叉性，但即使是同情的现有研究也很少涉及他们与英国边境系统有关的生活经历，观点和机构。这不仅是学术文献中的一个空白，也限制了我们对他们如何驾驭英国现有移民政策以及如何使这些政策不那么排外的理解。针对这一点，我的研究将通过使用多地点人种学来突出跨性别寻求庇护者在英国边境实践中的生活经历。通过这一点，我将提请进一步关注现有政策的具体方式加剧跨 * 寻求庇护者的边缘化和他们用来谈判英国边境系统的策略。在这样做的时候，我将展示如何阶级，种族，殖民地和性别结构与英国边境作为一个跨国网站，产生特别是西方的理解transness和cis-normativity互动。通过这一点，我希望有助于非殖民化欧洲跨研究的任务，强调国内西方的跨性概念化的方式不是一个中立的分析对象，而是积极执行和复制通过渗透到国内英国社会的边界实践。在这方面，我也将有助于更广泛的理论辩论，在国际关系上的边界作为社会产生的现象，通过突出的顺式规范性的作用，构成边界的做法，超越国内和国际政治之间的传统区别。在方法上，我将进行多地点的民族志，包括对相关政策文件的初步批评性话语分析，与支持跨 * 庇护寻求者的组织进行嵌入式参与者观察，并与跨 * 庇护寻求者和参与者观察期间确定的关键政策制定者进行半结构化访谈。通过这一点，我希望有助于对跨和顺的殖民生产进行更广泛的理论辩论。规范性和国际政治中的国内/国际区分。除此之外，我还将为地方和国家层面的政策参与者提供明确的政策建议，以减少他们的边缘化跨性别寻求庇护者，并希望有助于将学术和政策讨论转向与跨性别寻求庇护者在一起，而不是关于跨性别寻求庇护者。