EEA Public Services Research Clinic: EEA PSRC

过渡对英国的欧洲经济区国民意味着什么？未来的不确定性将如何影响他们现在要求现有权利的能力？他们在获得公共服务时是否会面临行政障碍或歧视？这个项目试图解决这些问题，以避免在研究人员将目光投向过渡之外时，过渡带来的问题被忽视。从理论上讲，合法权利在过渡期间基本保持不变。然而，在实践中，对变化的感知和预期可能会造成不确定性和混乱，从而影响权利的获取难易程度。国际和平研究所最近对欧盟权利项目的研究表明，在法律转型时期，行政司法面临的风险变得更加尖锐，这使得这项研究至关重要。过渡期可能会是行政紧张的时期，许多人试图通过拥挤的决策机制来确保权利。面对时间压力、能力不足、仓促制定的指导意见和对法律的困惑，欧洲经济区国民有可能在获得公共服务方面面临障碍，这些因素可能会使那些面临最大社会排斥风险的人丧失权力。该项目将捕捉过渡的人的层面，记录指导、困惑和态度变化如何在获得公共服务方面发挥作用。我们将建立首个全国性的欧洲经济区法律行动研究诊所，接受与欧洲经济区国民合作的咨询组织的案例，以记录由于行政障碍、错误决策、指导不力或行政文化和态度改变等原因而在获得社会保障、住房、医疗和社会护理等公共服务方面存在的问题。同时，该诊所将就欧洲经济区国民在过渡期间的权利和权利向来自英国各地的顾问提供专家、第二层建议和起草支持。EEA PSRC将推动法律研究的边界，将法律行动研究嵌入欧盟法律研究，以此作为发现司法障碍的一种手段，否则这些障碍将保持在无形中。它将借鉴欧盟人权项目开创的方法--以建议为主导的民族志，它产生丰富、令人信服的数据和重要的法律行动证据。EEAPSRC以此为基础--以其本身的权利建立一个法律行动研究诊所，在全国范围内覆盖，建立诊所学生团队，重点关注过渡状态产生的系统性行政问题，并研究不确定性对行政司法的影响。这项经验性的工作在学术法律理论和实际咨询工作之间架起了一座桥梁，将PI对欧盟法律和英国公法的技术知识、她的公民建议案例工作经验、她的诊所主管经验以及YLS诊所团队的资源结合在一起。该项目还弥合了学科差距；为了尽可能广泛地收集所报告的问题，诊所实地调查将综合对议员、欧洲议会议员、非政府组织和欧盟机构代表的采访-这些人都有与许多欧洲经济区国民合作的经验。为了了解通过诊所和访谈发现的问题的潜在规模，我们还将分析在项目过程中发布的关于公共服务资格和获得机会的新数据集。这些因素合在一起，将形成对过渡对欧洲经济区国民权利的影响的丰富的、全国性的跨学科分析，具有重大影响潜力。在从英国各地收集有关过渡如何在欧洲经济区国民与英国公共服务的关系中发挥作用的数据，以及关于阻碍欧洲经济区国民诉诸司法的机构做法的数据，同时为全国法律顾问网络提供专业知识时，欧洲经济区法律顾问委员会将成为法律行动研究的全国中心和欧洲领先者。

What does transition mean for EEA nationals in the UK? How will future uncertainty affect their ability to claim existing rights now? And will they face administrative obstacles, or discrimination when accessing public services? This project seeks to tackle these questions, to avoid the problems posed by transition from being neglected as researchers look beyond transition. In theory, legal rights will remain mostly unchanged during transition. In practice, however, the perception and anticipation of change can create uncertainty and confusion, which affects how easily rights are accessed. The PI's recent research on the EU Rights Project suggested that risks to administrative justice become more acute in periods of legal transition, making this study vital. The period of transition could be administratively intense, with a lot of people attempting to secure rights, through congested decision-making machinery. In the face of time pressure, insufficient capacity, hastily-produced guidance and confusion over the law, there is a risk that EEA nationals will face obstacles to accessing public services, and these factors could disempower those at greatest risk of social exclusion. This project will capture the human dimension of transition, documenting how guidance, confusion and changes in attitudes play out in accessing public services. We will set up the first ever national EEA legal action research clinic, receiving cases from advice organisations working with EEA nationals, in order to document the problems in accessing public services like social security, housing, health and social care, as a result of, e.g. administrative hurdles, erroneous decisions, poor guidance, or changing administrative culture and attitudes. The clinic will, in parallel, offer specialist, second tier advice and drafting support to advisers from around the UK, on the rights and entitlements of EEA nationals during transition.EEA PSRC will push the boundaries of legal research, embedding legal action research within EU legal studies, as a means to uncover obstacles to justice that would otherwise remain invisible. It will draw upon the methodology pioneered by the EU Rights Project - advice-led ethnography, which produces rich, compelling data, and important evidence of law in action. EEAPSRC builds on this - to produce a legal action research clinic in its own right, with a national reach, clinic student teams, and a focus on systemic administrative problems arising from the state of transition, and a study of the effects of uncertainty upon administrative justice. This empirical work bridges a gap between academic legal theory and practical advice work, by bringing together the PI's technical knowledge of both EU law and UK public law, her Citizens Advice case work experience, her clinic directorship experience, and the resources of the YLS clinic team. The project also bridges disciplinary gaps; in order to gather as wide a range of reported problems as possible, clinic fieldwork will be synthesised with interviews with MPs, MEPs, NGOs, and representatives of EU institutions - all have experiences of working with many EEA nationals. To get a sense of the potential scale of the problems identified through the clinic and interviews, we will also analyse new data sets as they are released during the course of the project, on public service eligibility and access. Together these elements will form a rich, nation-wide, interdisciplinary analysis of the effects of transition upon EEA nationals' rights, with significant impact potential. In gathering data from around the UK on how transition plays out in EEA nationals' relationships with UK public services, and on institutional practices that impede access to justice for EEA nationals, while offering expertise to nationwide networks of legal advisers, EEA PSRC will be a national hub - and a European leader - for legal action research.