Responding to the needs of refugees and asylum seekers in the context of Covid19 - resilience, adaptation, and new forms of care

该项目探讨了在COVID-19背景下，苏格兰格拉斯哥和英格兰东北部纽卡斯尔-盖茨黑德的难民和寻求庇护者的需求。我们关注这些城市，因为它们是分散的关键点，拥有跨越独特国家背景的既定庇护服务基础设施。我们将调查和比较谁为难民和寻求庇护者提供服务的组织的反应，以及难民和寻求庇护者在苏格兰和英格兰的全球流行病的背景下的生活经验。这将建立在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间对纽卡斯尔-盖茨黑德难民进行的五次试点访谈的基础上。这将有助于对这两个城市出现的生活复原力、适应战略和新形式的护理进行跨国家、跨城市的说明，从而为地方和国家政府政策提供信息。一项英国范围的调查将提供COVID-19对寻求庇护者和庇护服务影响的重要概述。这将在研究开始时进行，并在六个月后再次进行，以评估该部门如何应对不断发展的形势。与为难民和寻求庇护者提供服务的组织进行的20次面谈（每个城市10次）将补充与难民和寻求庇护者进行的40次面谈（每个城市20次）。该项目的产出包括三篇学术期刊文章;两份研究报告和在威斯敏斯特和霍利鲁德举办的两次相关政策研讨会/网络研讨会;两篇关于研究结果的平实语言开放获取在线文章;以及一个动画视频。

This project explores the needs of refugees and asylum-seekers in Glasgow, Scotland and in Newcastle-Gateshead, in the North-East of England, in the context of COVID-19. We focus on these cities because they are key points of dispersal with established asylum service infrastructures spanning distinctive national contexts. We will investigate and compare both the response of organisations who provide services for refugees and asylum-seekers, as well as the lived experiences of refugees and asylum-seekers in the context of a global pandemic in Scotland and England. This will build upon five pilot interviews undertaken with refugees in Newcastle-Gateshead during the COVID-19 pandemic. This will facilitate a cross-national, cross-city account of the lived resilience, adaptation strategies and new forms of care that have emerged in the two cities, that can inform local and national government policy. A UK wide survey will provide a crucial overview of the impact of COVID-19 on asylum-seekers and on asylum services. This will be conducted as the start of the study and again six months after this in order to assess how the sector is responding to the unfolding situation. Twenty interviews with organisations who provide services for refugees and asylum-seekers (10 in each city) will supplement forty interviews with refugees and asylum-seekers (20 in each city). Outputs from this project include three academic journal articles; two research reports and two linked policy workshops/webinars in Westminster and Holyrood; two plain language open access online articles about the research findings; and an animated video.