A 'hostile environment' for irregular migrants? Experiences of exclusion, advocacy and resistance

英国政府承诺为非正常移民创造一个“恶劣的环境”。鉴于提供这种环境的特殊压力，对移民政策的实施、有效性和对移民和其他相关行为者的影响进行密切审查至关重要。因此，该项目将侧重于旨在控制和管理非正常移徙的一系列立法和政策，询问作为移民政策基础的“软”社会政策方法向“硬”安全驱动方法的转变。具体地说，这个项目试图通过探索政策框架、负责执行这些控制的当地社区机构和那些被困在英格兰东南部这些“敌对环境”中的人之间的有争议的关系，对各种行为者在影响和抵制这些形式的控制的实施中所扮演的角色进行实证研究。该项目将超越监狱和拘留中心，探索移民政策在当地社区环境中的实际影响，特别是2016年《移民法》。在开发这一项目时，还将评估积极分子和合作研究方法对移民政策影响分析的贡献。

The UK government promises a 'hostile environment' for irregular migrants. Given the exceptional pressure to deliver this environment, it is vital that the implementation, effectiveness, and impact of immigration policy on migrants and other actors involved, is closely scrutinised. Accordingly, this project will focus on a range of legislation and policy designed to control and manage irregular migration, interrogating the transformation of 'soft' social policy approaches underpinning immigration policy into 'hard' security-driven approaches. Specifically, this project seeks to study empirically the role of a variety of actors in both shaping and resisting the implementation of these forms of control, by exploring the contested relations between policy frameworks, local community agencies that are tasked with enforcing them, and those caught up within these 'hostile environments' in the South East of England. Moving beyond prisons and detention centres, this project will explore the lived impacts of immigration policy in local community settings, in particular the Immigration Act 2016. In developing this project, the contribution of activist and collaborative research methods to the analysis of immigration policy impacts will also be evaluated.