Belonging after 'Brexit'? Exploring the effects of political uncertainty in the everyday lives of young Poles

本研究旨在探讨政治不确定性与归属感之间的关系，通过考虑作为一名年轻的波兰移民在“脱欧”的英国意味着什么。它将讨论“英国脱欧”和随之而来的反移民叙事的影响，探讨这在多大程度上给年轻的波兰人造成了归属感障碍。它将考察他们的日常生活，考虑他们在跨地方/跨国网络中的位置，并将试图理解“归属感”对年轻移民意味着什么。该研究将重点关注16-24岁的年轻波兰移民，他们作为儿童来到英国，使用叙事和半结构化访谈，结合视觉启发和参与性观察，探索他们迄今为止的移民旅程的深入体验，以及他们目前的生活现实。参与者最初将通过纽卡斯尔的SMART（支持移民，寻求庇护者和难民一起）项目招募，并使用滚雪球抽样来招募进一步的受访者。这项研究将在英格兰东北部进行，该地区以压倒性多数投票支持脱欧；只有纽卡斯尔市投票留欧。尽管波兰出生的居民总数很少（Hawkins and Moses, 2016），但波兰出生的居民总数为19,000人，这是一个在种族上相对同质的地区，总体上几乎没有移民经历。这项研究试图在之前关于“英国脱欧”对年轻移民影响的研究的基础上，研究波兰人在日常生活中如何经历政治不确定性的影响。

This research proposes to explore the relationship between political uncertainty and belonging byconsidering what it means to be a young Polish migrant in 'Brexit' Britain. It will address the impact of'Brexit' and the accompanying anti-migrant narrative, exploring to what extent this creates a barrier tobelonging for young Poles. It will examine their everyday lives considering their location intranslocal/transnational networks and it will seek to understand what 'belonging' means for youngmigrants. The research will focus on young Polish migrants aged 16-24 who came to the UK as children,using narrative and semi-structured interviews, in conjunction with visual elicitation and participantobservation, to explore in-depth experiences of their migration journeys to date, as well as their currentlived realities. Participants will be initially recruited via the SMART (Supporting Migrants, AsylumSeekers and Refugees Together) programme in Newcastle with snowball sampling being used to recruitfurther respondents. The research will be conducted within the North East of England, a region whichoverwhelmingly voted to leave the EU; only the city of Newcastle voted to remain. At 19,000, althoughthe overall number of Polish born residents is small (Hawkins and Moses, 2016), it is a region thatremains relatively ethnically homogenous with little overall experience of immigration. This study seeksto build on previous research into the impact of 'Brexit' upon young migrants by examining how youngPoles experience the effects of political uncertainty in their everyday lives.