Refining and promoting a 'social model of asylum' as a tool to transform responses to disability and forced migration in the UK.

博士后奖学金将使我能够最大限度地发挥我的博士研究的影响，在寻找解决英国残疾寻求庇护者所面临的不公正问题方面发挥主导作用，并在这样做的过程中将我的职业生涯带到下一个阶段。我的博士论文研究了如何在英国的残疾和强迫移民的需求和权利是确定的，加强，以及如何更有效地竞争。这是首次尝试将残疾和被迫移徙纳入同一领域，不仅在概念上和经验上将它们结合在一起，而且还使这两个部门相互对话，从各自的角度学习，并制定更有效的替代办法来解决当代不平等问题。在2013年首次向我介绍这些交叉不公正的七名残疾寻求庇护者中，有四人已经不再与我们在一起。他们没有一个是老死的。假设没有社会秩序是不可避免的，我现在寻求使用奖学金来促进我的研究建议，并开发有效的替代方案，以持续的交叉斗争。我的博士论文，我将专注于的关键要素是：-借鉴残疾的“社会模式”，我提出了一个“社会模式”的庇护，以促进了解英国庇护制度内的限制禁用的影响。我的审查员将这一概念性贡献描述为特别重要，“本身就值得发表”。- 我把残疾寻求庇护者的声音集中在我的论文中。我的审查员认为这些来自生活经历的发现也是“极其重要的，值得同行评议发表”。- 尽管残疾寻求庇护者在我的研究中发挥着关键作用，但当人们的生存本身处于危险之中时，他们不能负责制定替代方案。正如一个人向我解释的那样，“我没有精力......我自己就在一艘漂浮的船上，随时都可能摔倒”。因此，有必要在残疾公民、寻求庇护者和盟友之间建立协作学习和团结网络。- 公开参与的学术研究有助于发展解决当前交叉不平等所需的范式转变。奖学金将使我能够在我以前的研究成果基础上再接再厉。我已经制定了一个活动方案，通过这个方案，我可以在制定替代目前交叉不公正的方案方面发挥主导作用。- 我将以多种形式发表我的研究成果，供不同的读者使用，包括一本针对非学术读者的书，一篇社会政策领域的期刊文章，以及至少两个更短，更实用的博客，专注于所需的实际变化。我将建立一个学术和非学术交叉利益相关者网络，并为残疾寻求庇护者发挥主导作用。我将提供演示文稿，并组织关于所需范式变化的会议研讨会。作为其中的一部分，一名社区艺术家将与残疾公民和寻求庇护者合作，创作一幅彩绘壁画，将人们经历中的共性和差异带到公共空间。我们将共同努力，以增加理解和实现所需的政策和实践的变化。我还将通过教学和课程开发来发展我的技能并分享我的知识-最后，我将为未来的研究制定并提交建议。这种活动的组合旨在对英国紧迫的不公正问题产生重大影响。这也将使我能够把我的职业生涯的下一步作为一个专家在公众参与的交叉研究。

A postdoctoral fellowship will enable me to maximise the impact of my doctoral research, to take a leading role in finding solutions to the injustices faced by disabled asylum seekers in the UK and in so doing to take my career to the next stage. My doctoral thesis investigated how the needs and entitlements associated with disability and forced migration in the UK are determined, reinforced, and how they could be more effectively contested. It is one of the first attempts to frame disability and forced migration within the same field, not only bringing them together conceptually and empirically but also bringing the two sectors into conversation with each other, to learn from the perspective of each and to develop more effective alternatives to contemporary inequalities. Out of seven disabled asylum seekers who first introduced me to these intersectional injustices in 2013, four are no longer with us. None of them died of old age. Assuming that no social order is inevitable, I now seek to use a fellowship to promote my research recommendations and to develop effective alternatives to ongoing intersectional struggles. The key elements of my doctoral thesis which I will focus on are: - Drawing on the 'social model' of disability, I propose a 'social model' of asylum to facilitate understanding of the disabling impact of the restrictions within the UK asylum system. My examiners described this conceptual contribution as particularly significant and 'in itself worthy of publication'. - I centred the voices of disabled asylum seekers in my thesis. My examiners considered the findings emanating from these lived experiences as also 'extremely important and worthy of peer-reviewed publication'. - Notwithstanding the pivotal role of disabled asylum seekers in my research, when peoples' survival itself is at risk, they cannot be responsible for the development of alternatives. As one person explained to me, 'I don't have the energy ... I myself am in a floating boat that I can anytime fall down'. It is therefore necessary to develop networks of collaborative learning and solidarity between disabled citizens, asylum seekers and allies. - Publicly engaged academic research can contribute to developing the paradigmatic shift required to address current intersectional inequalities.The fellowship will enable me to build upon my previous research findings. I have developed a programme of activities through which I can take a leading role in developing alternatives to current intersectional injustice. - I will publish my research findings in multiple formats accessible to different readers, including a book targeted at non-academic readership, a journal article in the field of social policy and at least two shorter, more practical blogs focusing on practical changes that are needed.- I will develop a network of academic and non-academic intersectional stakeholders, with a leading role for disabled asylum seekers themselves. I will offer presentations and organize conference workshops on the paradigmatic change required. As part of this, a community artist will work with disabled citizens and asylum seekers to create a painted mural bringing the commonalities and distinctions in people's experiences to a public space. We will work collaboratively to increase understanding and realise the required change to policy and practice.- I will also develop my skills and share my knowledge through teaching and curriculum development- Finally, I will develop and submit proposals for future research.This combination of activities is intended to make a significant impact on an issue of pressing injustice in the UK. It will also enable me to take my career to the next step as an expert in publicly engaged intersectional research.