Settlement, housing and integration of refugees in the UK and Germany: experiences beyond the metropolis

本研究将通过考察住房政策和定居模式来探讨两个欧洲国家的难民和寻求庇护者的住房经验。所谓的难民“危机”和这些人在欧洲的融合给欧洲社会带来了许多不同的挑战，其中一些挑战还没有完全被人们所知，而另一些挑战则只是在这个超级多样化的时代才刚刚出现。以前的研究表明，他们融入东道国社会如何受到社会结构的阻碍。治理规模会严重阻碍难民和寻求庇护者的个人自主权，例如将他们固定在特定地方的法律（Weidinger，出版中）。这项研究将考虑住房政策和定居模式对移民融合的作用。通过对农村、区域和城市环境的案例研究，它将仔细审查住房、定居和融合过程。定性方法（半结构化访谈、观察、文件分析）将提供一系列视角和镜头来仔细审查移民融合。数据分析将主要利用戈夫曼和德兰蒂的研究成果，揭示微观层面的互动对更广泛的社会结构的重要性。这项研究将有助于对新移民目的地的研究，即移民经验有限的地区。移民研究的一个持续挑战是方法论民族主义（维默和格利克席勒2002）。在提出泛欧洲的分析，这项研究将有助于超越零碎的本地化移民研究，扩大理论辩论，并提供必要的知识tognos和决策者。

This research will explore the housing experiences ofrefugees and asylum seekers in two European countries byexamining housing policies and settlement patterns. The so-calledrefugee 'crisis' and the integration of these individuals acrossEurope has caused many different challenges for European society,some of those challenges that are not fully known, and others areonly just emerging in this superdiverse era. Previous researchshows how their integration into the host society can be impededby social structures. Scales of governance can seriously hamper theindividual autonomy of refugees and asylum seekers such as lawsthat fix them to a particular place (Weidinger, in press). Thisresearch will consider the role of housing policies and settlementpatterns on migrant integration. Using case studies of rural,regional and urban settings, it will scrutinize housing, settlementand integration processes.A qualitative approach (semi-structured interviews,observation, document analysis) will provide a range ofperspectives and lenses to scrutinise migrant integration. Dataanalysis will draw primarily on Goffman and Delanty to unravel theimportance of micro-level interactions vis-à-vis wider socialstructures.The research will contribute to a growing scholarship onnew immigration destinations, that is areas with limited experienceof immigration. One of the ongoing challenges of migrationresearch is that of methodological nationalism (Wimmer and GlickSchiller 2002). In proposing pan-European analysis this research willhelp to move beyond piecemeal localized migration studies,extending theoretical debates and providing essential knowledge toNGOs and policymakers.