MOBILISE Determinants of ‘Mobilisation’ at Home and Abroad: Analysing the Micro-Foundations of Out-Migration & Mass Protest

“动员”项目提出的问题是：当存在不满时，为什么有些人要抗议，而另一些人则要跨越国界？将移民和抗议文献的理论预期联系起来，我们考察了：a)类似的因素是否在个人层面驱动了移民和/或抗议的选择；b)政治、社会和经济背景如何影响这种动员；c)这些选择是相互独立的，还是相互促进/破坏的。Mobilise采用了多方法(全国代表性的面对面小组调查、在线移民调查、抗议参与者调查、焦点小组、生活史访谈、社交媒体分析)和多地点研究设计。它包括乌克兰、波兰、摩洛哥和巴西，这些国家最近目睹了大规模的移民和抗议活动。它跟踪从这些国家到德国、英国和西班牙的移民。该项目提供了四项关键创新：1)它将抗议和移民结合在一起；2)它收集所有相关群体进行比较研究(抗议者、移民、移民抗议者和没有参与移民或抗议的人)；3)它通过小组调查跟踪个人一段时间的情况；4)它包括使用社交媒体数据，提供关于网络和政治汇款作用的实时信息。这些特点使该项目能够就相关问题产生前所未有的大量经验数据，为移民和抗议研究的理论发展做出重大贡献，并向政策制定者提供对政治和经济稳定至关重要的关键见解。

The MOBILISE project asks: When there is discontent, why do some people protest while others cross borders? Connecting theoretical expectations from the migration and protest literatures, we examine: a) whether similar factors drive the choice to migrate and/or protest at the individual level; b) how the political, social and economics context affects this mobilisation; c) whether these choices are independent of each other or mutually reinforcing/ undermining. MOBILISE employs a multi-method (nationally representative face-to-face panel surveys, online migrant surveys, protest participant surveys, focus groups, life-history interviews, social media analysis) and a multi-sited research design. It covers Ukraine, Poland, Morocco and Brazil, which have recently witnessed large-scale emigration and protests. It follows migrants from these countries to Germany, the UK and Spain. The project offers four key innovations: 1)it combines protest and migration; 2)it captures all the relevant groups for a comparative study (protesters, migrants, migrant protesters and people who have not engaged in migration or protest); 3)it tracks individuals over time by employing a panel survey; 4)it includes the use of social media data providing real time information on the role of networks and political remittances. These features allow the project to generate an unprecedented amount of empirical data on the issues at stake, to make a major contribution to theory development in both migration and protest studies, and to offer key insights to policy makers that are of central importance for political and economic stability.