Housing in a Hostile Environment: A Critical Study of the Provision of Asylum Seeker Housing under the COMPASS Contracts and its Effects on Subjecthoo

该项目将探索英国内政部关于苏格兰寻求庇护者住房条款的COMPASS合同的复杂性，该合同的生命周期处于关键时刻。它将建立在Crawford等人2016年、Leahy等人2018年调查英国政府在住房立法和政策中执行边界制度的工作的基础上，以及Darling，2016a、2016b通过COMPASS[1]合同对寻求庇护者住房进行大规模私有化的工作。我的研究将批判性地研究将照顾弱势群体的工作外包给私营公司，特别是这一合同对颁布该合同的前线工作人员和生活在该合同下的寻求庇护者的影响。这将通过对立法、政策和合同文件的严格审查以及对苏格兰住房提供者工作人员和寻求庇护的居民的半结构化访谈来进行。该项目将对移徙和边界研究、人文地理学和社会政策等学术学科具有特别重要的意义。然而，它也将与住房政策和实践相关，因为它评估了与这一特定合同一起工作和生活的人的观点。因此，它的目的是促进更好地了解移徙以及福利和住房私有化--最重要的是，将其作为向特别脆弱的社会群体提供服务的一种手段。

This project will explore the complexities of the UK Home Office's COMPASS contract for asylum seeker housing provision in Scotland at a crucial juncture in the contract's lifespan. It will build upon work investigating the UK Government's implementation of border regimes in housing legislation and policy by Crawford et al., 2016, Leahy et al 2018 and the wholesale privatization of asylum seeker housing through the COMPASS[1] contracts by Darling, 2016a, 2016b. My research will critically examine the contracting of the care of vulnerable persons to private corporations, specifically the impact of this contract upon the frontline staff who enact it and the asylum seekers who live under it. This will be undertaken through a critical examination of legislation, policy and contract documents, as well as semi-structured interviews with housing provider staff and asylum-seeking residents in Scotland. The project will be of particular significance for the academic disciplines of migration and border studies, human geography and social policy. It will, however, also be relevant to housing policy and practice, in that it evaluates the perspectives of people both working with and living under this particular contract. It is intended, therefore, to contribute to a greater understanding both of migration and of the privatization of welfare and housing - crucially, as a means of provision for a particularly vulnerable social group.