Storying Life Courses for Intersectional Inclusion: Ethnicity and Wellbeing Across Time and Place

"黑人的生命也是命"运动目前的突出地位，沿着新冠肺炎发病率、死亡率和社会经济影响不平等的证据，突显了英国社会根深蒂固的系统性种族和种族不平等。这对黑人、亚裔和少数族裔及难民（BAMER）* 人口中的老年人以及年轻人产生了不利影响。事实上，这两者是不可分割的，因为早年遇到的不平等和排斥的种族化经历在生命过程中积累，导致晚年在一系列社会结果中出现严重的种族不平等。近年来，旨在为广大人口创造更具包容性的老龄化情景的研究和政策议程获得了推动力，尽管在普遍存在的社会老龄歧视的背景下，老龄歧视是一种不平等制度和主要的排斥形式。这些议程日益认识到从生命历程的角度看待包容性老龄化的重要性，将晚年的定位理解为优势和劣势随着时间的推移而累积。然而，老年人的生命历程一直被以相当同质化的方式对待。这意味着，在普遍的包容性老龄化概念中，忽略了老龄化与族裔之间以及老龄歧视与种族主义之间的重要交叉点。这个及时而大胆的项目将填补这一基本知识空白。其主要目的是批判性地质疑社会包容/排斥的公认解释，以便从巴梅尔人的生命历程的角度对其进行重新概念化，并将这种重新概念化作为重新理解包容性老龄化和实现这一目标所需步骤的基础。他们具有动态和多层面的身份和经历，例如，性别、社会经济地位、移民背景、性、宗教和残疾。因此，在这个项目中，我们采取了一种“交叉的生命历程”的方法，在巴梅尔人口中解开经验。我们还关注的重要作用，地方在塑造交叉的生命历程的经验。这包括当地的物质资源，如住房和社会照顾，以及地方产生或不产生的依恋感、归属感和身份认同感。对于那些有移民背景的人来说，地点可能是多地点的，在居住地的经历与其他地方的经历有关。该项目的跨学科团队（涵盖社会老年学、社会学、地理学、社会政策、社会人类学、种族和民族研究、移徙研究和公共卫生）具有重新构想社会包容性老龄政策和做法的高影响力雄心，他们将与BAMER团体和其他主要的地方和国家利益攸关方合作进行研究。这些人在项目中包括不同的共同调查员，政策和实践伙伴，社区研究人员，声音论坛和利益相关者平台成员。在进行有影响力的共同制作的研究，我们将集中BAMER老年人的生活经验，在整个项目中采用创造性的“故事”方法。这将为我们提供一种参与者主导的、包容性的和适应性的方式，与那些经历过排斥和/或剥削的人一起发展知识。我们将通过创新性地结合定量和定性方法，共同构建一个更加多元和包容的知识库，并为变革提供催化剂，在微观、中观和宏观层面确定创造性的政策和实践步骤，以防止排斥的风险，促进包容性的老龄化。* 我们倾向于使用完整的术语“黑人，亚洲人和少数民族和难民”，但空间限制了我们。

The current prominence of the Black Lives Matter Movement, along with evidence of the unequal morbidity, mortality and socio-economic impacts of Covid-19, have highlighted the entrenched and systemic ethnic and racialised inequalities in UK society. These have a detrimental impact on older members of the Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER)* population, as well as on its younger members. Indeed, the two are inseparable, as racialised experiences of inequality and exclusion encountered in earlier years, accumulate over the life course, resulting in significant ethnic inequalities in later life across a range of social outcomes.Research and policy agendas designed to foster more inclusive ageing scenarios for the population at large have gained traction in recent years, albeit against a backdrop of prevailing societal ageism as a system of inequality and a major form of exclusion. Such agendas have increasingly acknowledged the importance of a life course perspective for inclusive ageing, understanding later-life positionings as cumulative of advantage and disadvantage over time. Older people's life courses, however, have been treated in quite homogenised ways. This means that in prevailing conceptualisations of inclusive ageing, vital intersections between ageing and ethnicity, and between ageism and racism, have been missed. This timely and bold project will plug that fundamental knowledge gap. Its key aim is to critically interrogate accepted interpretations of social inclusion/exclusion in order to reconceptualise them from the perspective of the BAMER population's life courses, and to employ this reconceptualisation as the basis for a new understanding of inclusive ageing and the steps needed to achieve it. As with the older population, the BAMER population is diverse in itself, with dynamic and multidimensional identities and experiences mediated by for example, gender, socio-economic position, migration background, sexuality, religion and disability. In this project, therefore, we take an 'intersectional life course' approach, unpacking experiences within the BAMER population. We also focus on the important role that place plays in shaping intersectional life course experiences. This includes the material resources available in local places, such as housing and social care, as well as the sense of attachment, belonging and identity places engender or not. For those with a migration background, place is likely to be multi-sited, with experiences in the place of residence produced and re-produced in relation to places elsewhere. With the high-impact ambition of re-imagining socially inclusive ageing policies and practices, the project's interdisciplinary team (spanning Social Gerontology, Sociology, Geography, Social Policy, Social Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Migration Studies and Public Health) of highly experienced academic investigators will research in partnership with BAMER groups and other key local and national stakeholders. These are included variously in the project as Co-investigators, Policy & Practice Partners, Community Researchers, Voice Forum and Stakeholder Platform members. In undertaking impactful co-produced research, we will centre the lived experience of BAMER older people, employing a creative 'storying' approach throughout the project. This will give us a participant-led, inclusive and adaptive way of developing knowledge with those who have experienced exclusion and/or exploitation. Through an innovative combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, we will co-construct a more pluralistic and inclusive knowledge-base and provide a catalyst for change, identifying creative policy and practice steps at micro, meso and macro levels to prevent the risks of exclusion and to promote inclusive ageing. *We prefer to use the term "Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic and Refugee" in full, but space constrains us.