Life after deportation: Repatriation, Risk and Resilience among asylum-seekers and migrant families in Guatemala and Mexico (L.I.F.E)

该项目研究了美国移民政策对寻求庇护者和过境移民的影响，这些人由于新的第三国庇护处理协议而被迫返回墨西哥和危地马拉。它探讨了他们和他们的家庭在这个过程中如何经历风险和不安全感，以及他们如何发展应对机制来减轻这些压力。至关重要的是，它调查了墨西哥和危地马拉不断演变的庇护处理和接收背景，并询问了这些国家是希望来到美国的寻求庇护者的“安全第三国”的说法。它借鉴了我们以前关于庇护治理和人道主义保护基础设施分包给邻国的方式的工作，并利用从这些研究中获得的见解，为调查危地马拉和墨西哥寻求庇护家庭和被驱逐移民所面临的风险提供信息。我们的目标是，第一阶段项目将为墨西哥、危地马拉和邻国的一项重大后续研究计划提供投入，并为之提供可靠的基础。（将政策分析与关键的线人专家访谈结合起来）; ㈡一系列快速评估，包括分析犯罪统计数据;观察墨西哥和危地马拉的生活条件;与被送往“安全”第三国的家庭进行访谈;以及一项性别影响研究。这些研究活动将调查寻求庇护和移民家庭面临的风险;家庭如何应对这些庇护和移民制度和结构;以及返回对个人和家庭的影响; ㈢与生活在移民收容所的儿童和青年开展参与性艺术研究活动，以更好地了解流离失所和分离对他们的影响;以及（iv）政策综合，从其他全球环境中的“安全国家和离岸处理庇护制度”中吸取经验教训。这项研究的成果将包括：根据寻求庇护者和移民成人和儿童的证词编制的宣传工具包;一系列公共参与和政策活动，以分享知识和从工作中学习;以及关于在整个区域建立一个更大的移徙和庇护治理问题国际合作研究机构的建议。

This project examines the effects of US immigration policies on asylum-seekers and transit migrants who have been forcibly returned to Mexico and Guatemala as a result of new third country asylum processing agreements. It explores how they and their families experience risk and insecurity during this process, and also how they may develop coping mechanisms to mitigate these stressful situations. Crucially, it investigates the evolving asylum processing and receiving context in Mexico and Guatemala and interrogates claims that these states are 'safe third countries' for asylum-seekers who wish to come to the USA. It draws upon our previous work on the ways in which asylum governance and the infrastructure for humanitarian protection have been sub-contracted to neighbouring states and uses the insights gained from those studies to inform an investigation into the risks faced by asylum-seeking families and deported migrants in Guatemala and Mexico. Our ambition is for this first stage project to feed into and provide a secure basis for a major follow on research programme in Mexico, Guatemala and the neighbouring states.This first-phase study , carried out by the international team, will involve a multi-method approach including (i) desk-based research (combining policy analysis with key informant expert interviews); (ii) a series of rapid assessments involving analysis of crime statistics; observations of living conditions in Mexico and Guatemala; interviews with families sent to 'safe' third countries; and a gender impact study. These research activities will investigate the risks for asylum-seeking and migrant families; how families navigate these asylum and immigration systems and structures; and the impact of return on individuals and families; (iii) participatory arts-based research activities with children and young people living in a migrant shelter to better understand the impact of displacement and separation on them; and (iv) a policy synthesis of what has been learned from 'safe country and off-shore processing asylum systems in other global settings. Outputs from the study will include an advocacy tool-kit developed from the testimonies of asylum-seeking and migrant adults and children; a series of public engagement and policy events to share knowledge and learning from the work; and a proposal for a larger international collaborative body of research on migration and asylum governance across the region.