Negotiating Belonging: The intergenerational experiences of young refugees and asylum-seekers and their families in Tyneside

这个博士课程研究了英国泰恩赛德地区庇护和难民家庭的代际定居经历。它探讨了仇外心理、情感暴力和官僚暴力等交叉问题，以及在一个经历了紧缩措施的后果、社会福利支出大幅削减的地方，社会排斥和亲切感。这项研究记录了难民的策略，包括他们的愿望和希望，因为他们试图在英国建立自己的生活，在一个民族主义日益增长，国内和国际上对移民的反对日益加剧的时代。这些努力借鉴了我在泰恩赛德地区志愿部门工作10多年的经验，以及我在影响难民家庭问题的第一线工作的第一手经验。这项研究将涉及焦点小组，深入访谈和对10-18岁的年轻难民和寻求庇护者及其家庭成员的民族志观察。这些活动将侧重于收集关于移民和定居过程的传记历史、批判性反思和见解，同时阐明难民和接收社区之间社会互动和交流的地点和实例。被选中的参与者将参加一个为期8周的Photovoice项目，在这个项目中，我们将共同识别、拍摄和讨论影响他们解决问题的问题。参与者的摄影作品将在泰恩赛德2021难民周和其他地点的策划展览中传播。这些活动将通过与英格兰北部难民服务中心的研究伙伴关系来发展，我的计划的核心方面将被设计成支持该组织在该地区的宣传工作。

This PhD programme examines the intergenerational settlement experiences of asylum and refugee families in England's Tyneside region. It probes intersecting issues of xenophobia, emotional and bureaucratic violence, as well as social exclusion and relatedness in a place that experiences the fallout of austerity measures, with significant cuts to social welfare spending. This study documents the strategies of refugees, including their aspirations and hopes as they attempt to make lives for themselves in the UK within a time of growing ethno-nationalism and intensifying national and international opposition to migrants. These efforts draw on over 10 years of my experience working in the voluntary sector in the Tyneside region and my first-hand experience of working at the frontlines of issues affecting refugee families. This research will involve focus groups, in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations with young refugees and asylum seekers aged 10-18, and their family members. These will focus on collecting biographical histories, critical reflections and insights on the migration and settlement process, while illuminating sites and instances of social interaction and exchange between refugee and receiving communities. Selected participants will participate in an 8-week Photovoice project in which we will collectively identify, photograph and discuss issues shaping their settlement. Participants' photographic work will be disseminated in a curated exhibition during Tyneside's 2021 Refugee Week and other sites. These activities will be developed through a research partnership with the North of England Refugee Service and central aspects of my programme will be devised to support the organisation's advocacy work in the region.