Health, social, economic and cultural impacts of COVID-19 on migrant essential workers in the UK

1.2科学/技术概要（最大值）COVID-19暴露了英国社会经济对长期不安全的移民劳动力的依赖。据报告，移徙工人冒着生命危险来抵消这一流行病的破坏性影响，但他们发现自己的职业和个人处境岌岌可危（临时零时合同、工作剥削、过度拥挤的住宿、获得包括普遍信贷在内的适当保健/社会服务的机会有限）。该项目将调查COVID-19对移民基本劳动力的健康、社会、经济和文化影响，以及这些影响如何影响他们继续留在英国。它将重点关注英国最大的非英国国籍，波兰社区，他们-虽然在一系列角色和部门就业-在低收入的基本工作中占主导地位。我们将把这个小组作为一个连续的案例研究，就大流行期间的移民工作提出更广泛的主张和政策建议。我们将采用混合方法进行：在线调查，以绘制COVID-19的影响;深入的定性访谈，以确定大流行如何影响工人的生活;以及与利益相关者进行专家访谈，以调查如何在COVID-19恢复战略中最好地支持和留住移民工人。研究结果将生成第一个全面的英国范围内的数据集，该数据集是关于在COVID-19背景下移民基本工人的经历。这项研究与伙伴组织（波兰侨民协会、法夫移民论坛、PKAVS少数民族社区中心和波兰社会和文化协会）共同制作，将产生一份政策简报，一个供基本工作部门雇主使用的工具包，供移民工人使用的信息资源，以及媒体和学术成果。

1.2 Scientific/technical summary (max. 250 words)COVID-19 has exposed the UK's socio-economic dependence on a chronically insecure migrantessential workforce. While risking their lives to offset the devastating effects of the pandemic,migrant workers reportedly find themselves in precarious professional and personal circumstances(temporary zero-hours contracts, work exploitation, overcrowded accommodation, limited accessto adequate health/social services including Universal Credit). This project will investigate thehealth, social, economic and cultural impacts of COVID-19 on the migrant essential workforce andhow these might impact on their continued stay in the UK. It will focus on the largest non-Britishnationality in the UK, the Polish community, who - while employed across a range of roles andsectors - are overrepresented in lower-paid essential work. We will use this group as an illustrativecase study to make wider claims and policy recommendations about migrant work during thepandemic. Using a mixed-methods approach, we will conduct: an online survey to map COVID-19impacts; in-depth qualitative interviews to establish how the pandemic has affected worker's lives;and expert interviews with stakeholders to investigate how to best support and retain migrantessential workers in COVID-19 recovery strategies. The results will generate the firstcomprehensive UK-wide dataset on the experiences of migrant essential workers against thebackdrop of COVID-19. The research, co-produced with partner organisations (Polish ExpatsAssociations, Fife Migrants Forum, PKAVS Minority Communities Hub and Polish Social andCultural Association), will generate a policy briefing, a toolkit for employers in the essential worksectors, information resources for migrant workers, alongside media and academic outputs.