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

MOBILISE项目提出的问题是：当存在不满时，为什么有些人会抗议，而另一些人会跨越国界？结合移民和抗议文献的理论期望，我们研究了：a)在个人层面上，相似的因素是否驱动了移民和/或抗议的选择；B)环境如何影响这种动员；C)这些选择是相互独立的还是相互加强/破坏的。MOBILISE采用多种方法（全国代表性面对面小组调查、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）和多站点研究设计。它涵盖了乌克兰、波兰、摩洛哥和巴西，这些国家最近经历了大规模移民和抗议活动。它跟踪这些国家的移民前往德国、英国和西班牙。该项目提供了四个关键创新：1)将抗议和移民结合起来；2)它捕获了所有相关群体进行比较研究（抗议者，移民，移民抗议者和未从事移民或抗议的人）；3)通过小组调查对个人进行长期跟踪；4)它包括使用社交媒体数据，提供有关网络和政治汇款作用的实时信息。这些特点使该项目能够对移民和抗议研究的理论发展作出重大贡献，并就影响政治和经济稳定的因素向决策者提供关键见解。

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 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 make a major contribution to theory development in both migration and protest studies and offer key insights to policy makers on factors influencing political and economic stability.