Refugee integration and family reunification: The impact of 'the deserving mother' in the context of the UK and Denmark

2016年，欧盟一项更好地保护难民的提案指出，家庭团聚、心理健康和成功融合之间存在直接联系。根据联合国人权事务高级专员公署的说法，当家庭分离时，他们会发现学习当地语言、找到工作和建立当地网络变得更加困难。尽管许多欧洲国家政府承认家庭团聚在融合进程中的重要性，但对于这些团聚的家庭如何在结构上将他们排除在外的移民环境中谈判获得福利支持，进而实现融合，人们知之甚少。移民研究经常将母亲视为向子女传递传统的、特定于种族的价值观和文化资源，而她们阻碍或帮助子女融入社会的作用通常是政策制定者关注的重点。该项目的目的是通过对英国和丹麦这两个移民政策趋同的福利制度的比较分析，通过难民母亲的视角审查和了解团聚家庭的融合过程。本研究将借鉴人类学和跨学科的方法，在移徙和性别研究领域，探讨难民母亲如何就是否有资格获得福利服务进行谈判，以及她们可能如何通过新的社区形式和日常归属感来挑战、改变和影响融合进程。通过将难民母亲作为人种学的起点，我将探索如何在“福利微型公共”中谈判对母亲、母亲和家庭的相互关联的理解(Berg等人)。2019年)与倡导者和街头官僚，以及难民家庭内部。将母亲奖学金和家庭团聚奖学金结合在一起，将使人们不仅对难民妇女的经历有独特的了解，而且对可能更好地支持包容性融合的政策提供独特的见解。

In 2016, an EU proposal to better protect refugees stated that there is a direct link between family reunification, mental health and successful integration. According to UNCHR, when families are separated, they find it more difficult to learn the local language, find employment and create local networks. Despite numerous European governments acknowledging the importance of family reunification in integration processes, little is known about how these reunified families negotiate access to welfare support, and by extension to integration, in a migration milieu that is structurally configured to exclude them. Migration research often views mothers as transmitting traditional, ethnically specific values and cultural resources to their children, and their role as either hindering or aiding their children's integration is usually the key focus of policy-makers. The aim of this project is to examine and understand, through a comparative analysis of the UK and Denmark - two welfare regimes with converging immigration policies - the integration processes of reunified families through the lens of the refugee mother. Drawing on anthropological and interdisciplinary approachesin the field of migration and gender studies, this study will examine how refugee mothers negotiate deservingness to welfare services and how they may challenge, change and impact on the integration processes through new forms of community and everyday practices of belonging. By taking the refugee mothers as the ethnographic point of departure, I will explore how interrelated understandings of motherhood, mothering and family are negotiated in 'welfare micropublics' (Berg et al. 2019) with advocates and street-level bureaucrats, and within the refugee families. The bringing together of the motherhood and family reunification scholarships will provide a unique insight into not only the experiences of refugee women but also the kind of policies that might better support an inclusive integration.