Here to Stay? Identity, belonging and citizenship among Eastern European settled migrant children in the UK (a decade after EU Enlargement)

该项目的焦点过去十年来来到英国的东欧人是英国增长最快的种族群体。这项研究将首次专门关注在英国生活至少三年的东欧移民儿童，并比较他们在苏格兰和英格兰的日常生活以及对文化和国家认同感和归属感的感受。这项研究的主要目的是为公众辩论、政策制定者和服务提供商提供关于东欧移民子女在英国定居问题的信息。这项研究将通过探索定居的移民儿童在英国关于移民、身份和公民身份的独特话语中的经历，并确保在当前关于国家身份的辩论中考虑到来自新的少数群体的儿童的声音，来促进社会包容。定居的流动儿童的视角有助于我们了解他们是否正在融入当地社区的文化，并可以突出他们社会生活和未来机会的空间和时间维度。种族和散居海外的身份认同、归属感、跨民族主义、文化和民族的概念在整个欧洲正在被赋予新的含义，在讨论国家认同和社会包容时，需要重新评估和质疑。这项研究将移民群体的移民和融合话语与儿童在日常互动中如何体验这些话语的知识结合在一起，产生证据，这项研究将产生关于英国新的少数民族儿童及其长期融合经历的新知识。这项研究聚焦于在英国生活了3年以上的东欧移民的12-18岁儿童，将提供对移民儿童长期定居经历的独特理解，探索家庭、同龄人和社区社交网络。另一个关键的调查领域将是儿童在他们使用的一系列服务方面所表达的需求、获取途径方面的问题以及服务满足其需求的程度。第三，我们将探讨东欧移民子女在不断变化的欧洲背景下谈判民族、社会、文化和政治身份时，使他们能够适应所在地区的新的社会、经济和政治背景的因素。数据将通过对现有证据的审查，对英国6个城市、半城市/农村地区500至600名儿童的调查，以及有70至100名儿童的重点群体来产生。还将对16-20个家庭进行深入的案例研究。一个青年咨询小组将在项目开发和传播中发挥中心作用。原创性、对知识的贡献和预期的影响项目的原创性源于对东欧生活在不同地理空间的儿童参与正在进行的、动态的过程的方式的考虑，以便在地方、国家和全球各级理解世界及其在世界中的地位。这项研究将填补关于新定居移民社区的信息空白，以期为政策和实践提供信息。关于定居的移民儿童的社会实践、教育成就和抱负、文化和国家认同感以及归属感的信息，将在政策、政治和公共话语中流传的各种“国家”代表的背景下，提供对欧洲移民社区在英国融入的程度的洞察。这项研究将解决移民儿童在公共辩论中相对缺乏声音的问题，并让政策制定者和公众更好地了解最初是移民但已长期定居在英国的儿童的生活。这些信息将广泛传播，使儿童、服务提供者、政策制定者和普通公众受益。

Focus of the projectEastern Europeans who have arrived in the UK in the last decade are the fastest growing ethnic groups in the UK. This study will be the first to focus specifically on Eastern European migrant children who have lived in the UK for at least three years, and to compare their everyday lives and sense of cultural and national identity and belonging in Scotland and England. The primary aim of the research is to inform public debate, policy makers and service providers on the issue of children of Eastern European migrants settled in Britain. The study will promote social inclusion, by exploring the experiences of settled migrant children in relation to the distinct discourses around migration, identity and citizenship in the UK and by ensuring that voices of children from the 'new' minority groups are taken into account in current debates on national identity. Settled migrant children's perspectives help us understand whether or not they are being socialised into their local communities' culture and can highlight the spatial and temporal dimensions of their social lives and opportunities for future. Concepts of ethnic and diasporic identity, belonging, transnationalism, culture and nation are taking new meanings across Europe and need reassessment and questioning when discussing national identity and social inclusion.Evidence to be produced By bringing together discourses on migration and integration of migrant groups with knowledge on how children experience these discourses in their everyday interactions, the study will generate new knowledge on the UK's new ethnic minority children and their long-term experiences of integration. Focussing on children aged 12-18 of Eastern European migrants living in the UK for 3+ years, the study will provide a unique understanding on migrant children's long term experiences of settlement, exploring family, peer and community social networks. Another key area of investigation will be children's expressed needs in terms of the array of services they use, issues in access and the extent to which services are meeting their needs. Third, we will explore the factors that enable children of Eastern European migrants to adapt to the new social, economic and political context of the regions in which they live, as they negotiate national, social, cultural and political identities in the context of a changing Europe. Data will be generated through a review of existing evidence, a survey of between 500-600 children across six urban, semi-urban/rural areas in the UK and focus groups with between 70-100 children. In depth case studies 16-20 families will also be conducted. A young people's advisory group will have a central role in the project development and dissemination.Originality, contribution to knowledge and anticipated impactThe originality of the project stems from the consideration given to the ways in which Eastern European children living in diverse geographical spaces are engaged in on-going, dynamic processes of making sense of the world, and their place within it, at local, national and global levels. The study will fill a gap in information on newly settled migrant communities, with a view of informing policy and practice. Information on settled migrant children's social practices, educational achievement and aspirations, sense of cultural and national identity and belonging will provide insights into the extent of European migrant communities' integration in the UK, in the context of various representations of 'nation' that circulate in policy, political and public discourses. The study will address the relative absence of migrant children's voices in public debates and provide policy makers and the public with an improved understanding of the lives of children who were originally migrants, but have settled long-term in the UK. This information will be disseminated widely, to benefit children, service providers, policy makers and the general public.