Post-Socialist Britain: Memory, Representation and Political Identity amongst German, Polish, and Ukrainian Immigrants in the UK

后社会主义英国：英国德国、波兰和乌克兰移民的记忆、代表和政治认同

• 批准号: AH/V001779/1
• 负责人: Sara Jones
• 金额: $ 95.41万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV001779%2F1
• 关键词: Post; Socialist; Britain; Memory; Representation; Post; Socialist; Britain; Memory; Representation

What happens to the connection between collective memory and political identity in the process of migration? 'Post-Socialist Britain' takes as its point of departure the growth in support for anti-immigrant and Eurosceptic parties across Europe. Our focus is on post-socialist countries - that is, those with experience of state socialist rule. The support for right-of-centre and xenophobic politics has frequently been explained in these contexts as being underpinned by collective memory of authoritarianism, and/or the ways in which these histories are used by those seeking support for ethnonationalist politics. Nonetheless, those who give such explanations usually assume that those remembering authoritarianism do so in their country of origin. Post-Socialist Britain breaks out of this national mould to explore if and how memory is linked to political identity when the individual moves to a new national context.In so doing, the project makes a substantial original contribution to scholarship in multiple fields: memory studies with an interest in transcultural/relational modes of remembrance; sociological work on integration and incorporation of immigrants; and political science accounts of the relationship between the past and present political behaviour. The urgency of this research is given not only by the political shift to the right across the continent, but also by the increase in xenoracism experienced by (especially) Central and Eastern European immigrants in the UK since the 2016 'Brexit' referendum. The presence of these individuals and memories in the UK means that Britain too can be thought of as post-socialist.Political identity is influenced by a complex web of factors: e.g, constructions of ethnicity, social inclusion, community networks, and media representation. Post-Socialist Britain uses an innovative interdisciplinary methodology to explore this complexity; it combines narrative interviews, network analysis, media research and arts-based community work. It uses a case study approach, focusing on two comparable, but very different, groups: Polish and German immigrants in the UK. Poland and Germany both have memory cultures structured around the dual histories of National Socialism and communism, albeit in very different ways. They also represent two of the largest groups of EU immigrants currently living in the UK. Nonetheless, their experience of migration in terms of the size of their respective communities, constructions of ethnicity in different contexts, representation in culture and media, and radicalisation within the immigrant groups themselves differ substantially. These differences provide a unique opportunity to explore the elements that contribute to the formation of political identity and the role of memory within them.The research findings of Post-Socialist Britain will lead to a better understanding of how immigrant groups negotiate different aspects of their identities and the factors that contribute to the development of political behaviour. The project will therefore also be of significance for multiple stakeholders who work towards promoting community cohesion and against xenophobia and extremism. We will work closely with Polish and German professional and community associations, policy-makers, immigrant communities, and schools in order to ensure that the findings are disseminated to and are usable by these beneficiary groups. Our project partners are: Centrala/Polish Expats Association, Polish Professionals in London, European's Welfare Association, British German Association, and Creative Black Country. The project will result in a diverse portfolio of outputs for different audiences: a single-authored monograph, a conference and special issue, five peer-reviewed journal articles, six stakeholder workshops, two policy briefings, a virtual and physical exhibition and series of artistic performances, school teaching resources, and press op-ed and opinion pieces.

在移民过程中，集体记忆与政治身份之间的联系会发生什么？ “后社会主义英国”将其作为对欧洲反移民和欧洲怀疑党的支持的出发点。我们的重点是后社会主义国家，即具有国家社会主义统治经验的国家。在这些背景下，经常对对中心权和仇外政治的支持经常被解释为受到威权主义的集体记忆和/或那些寻求支持民族主义政治的人使用这些历史的方式的支持。尽管如此，那些提供这种解释的人通常认为那些记住威权主义的人在其原籍国这样做。后社会主义的英国脱离了这个国家模式，以探索当个人转移到新的国家背景时，记忆是否以及如何与政治身份相关联。这样做，该项目对多个领域的奖学金做出了实质性的原始贡献：对跨文化/关系模式的记忆研究；关于移民融合和融合的社会学工作；政治科学对过去与现在的政治行为之间关系的描述。这项研究的紧迫性不仅是由于整个非洲大陆的政治转变，而且是由于自2016年“英国脱欧”公投以来（尤其是）中欧和东欧移民所经历的Xenoracism的增加。这些人的存在和在英国的记忆意味着英国也可以被视为后社会主义者。政治身份受到复杂的因素的影响：例如，种族，社会包容性，社区网络和媒体代表性的建构。后社会主义英国使用创新的跨学科方法来探索这种复杂性。它结合了叙事访谈，网络分析，媒体研究和基于艺术的社区工作。它使用案例研究方法，重点是两个可比但非常不同的团体：英国的波兰和德国移民。波兰和德国都有围绕民族社会主义和共产主义的双重历史构建的记忆文化，尽管其方式截然不同。它们还代表了目前居住在英国的两个最大的欧盟移民群体。尽管如此，他们在各自社区的规模，不同情况下的种族建构，文化和媒体的代表以及移民群体本身内部激进化方面的移民经验有很大差异。这些差异为探索有助于形成政治身份的要素和记忆力的作用提供了独特的机会。后社会主义英国的研究结果将使人们更好地了解移民群体如何谈判其身份的不同方面及其对政治行为发展的影响的因素。因此，该项目对于促进社区凝聚力以及反对仇外心理和极端主义的多个利益相关者也将具有重要意义。我们将与波兰，德国的专业和社区协会，政策制定者，移民社区和学校紧密合作，以确保这些调查结果被传播到并由这些受益人团体使用。我们的项目合作伙伴是：Centrala/Polish Expats协会，伦敦的波兰专业人士，欧洲福利协会，英国德国协会和创意黑国。该项目将为不同的受众提供多种产出组合：单身著名的专着，会议和特刊，五个经过同行评审的期刊文章，六个利益相关者研讨会，两个政策简介，一个虚拟和物理展览和一系列艺术表演，学校教学资源，以及op-eed和op-eed and Op-edece and Op-Ed teples。