Bordered Youth: Analysing Citizenship and Identities in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland

边境青年：分析英国脱欧后北爱尔兰的公民身份和身份

基本信息

批准号：
AH/W002809/1
负责人：
Suzanne Beech
金额：
$ 38.41万
依托单位：
University of Ulster
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW002809%2F1
关键词：
Bordered Youth Analysing Citizenship Identities

项目摘要

This project analyses how young people negotiate the complex and overlapping identities and citizenships produced by living in borderland regions in times of fraught political change. Our geographical focus is the 'borderless border' between the UK and the Republic of Ireland, a physical, cultural, economic and emotional boundary that is being renegotiated in the aftermath of Brexit. This research builds an understanding of how border crossings and wider relationships with this unique place underpin young peoples' values and belief systems. More critically, it explores a) how these interactions may shape future constitutional change within Northern Ireland (and by extension the political makeup of the UK and/or the Republic of Ireland) and b) what this border could look like in future. Those living alongside the Irish Border - and within Northern Ireland - have unique overlapping claims to citizenship, and protected freedom of movement across the border through the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. However, uncertainties produced by Brexit threaten to derail this, presenting unique challenges for the Border's material, symbolic and geopolitical contexts. We will work alongside young people aged 16 to 24, a demographic excluded from voting in the Brexit referendum, to map, document and interrogate mobility, citizenship and identity. Our participants include sixth form students and young people engaged in youth projects in Belfast, Derry-Londonderry, Newry, Armagh and Enniskillen. We will use participatory research methods (digital ethnography and filmmaking) to document their experiences; and digital and archival methods to analyse citizenship and mobility.Young people are often absent from or overlooked by political debate, consultation and input due to their status as 'apprentice citizens' and this is the case for the Irish Border and the implications of Brexit for the Northern Irish constitution. To change this, this project includes knowledge exchange pathways between the participants and policy makers within the Northern Irish Executive. To make this a reality we are liaising with our project partners, the Nerve Centre in Derry (a project collaborator and Northern Ireland's leading creative media arts centre) and partnering with the Department of Education in Northern Ireland. The participants will co-curate a film-screening and exhibition, bringing together young people and key political decisionmakers.This project offers two critical pathways for impact. First, participants will receive creative media skills in either digital ethnography or filmmaking and maintain copyright for any project materials they produce for university portfolios, CVs etc. They will be partners in the knowledge exchange partnership through the co-curation of a film-screening and exhibition for policymakers, politicians and key organisations (e.g. the Community Relations Council and Youth Action) to show how young people conceptualise the Border and their citizenship. Second, the project engages with political organisations with an interest in a) decision-making around the constitutional issue in Northern Ireland and b) what future relationships will look like with the EU. These actors will benefit from having young people directly inform policy and will be engaged by the film-screening and exhibition, policy briefs, engagement opportunities (e.g. the KESS seminar series) and our existing networks (the investigators have a track record of working alongside policymakers in NI). We will produce a minimum of four peer-reviewed articles, host a symposium on Brexit, youth and young people, and attend relevant academic conferences. While this project is focused on border dynamics alongside the Irish Border, it will have broader resonance for those living in contested border spaces elsewhere, encouraging the use of participatory research methods to showcase voices often side-lined in political debate.

该项目分析了年轻人在充满政治变革的时期如何应对生活在边境地区所产生的复杂且重叠的身份和公民身份。我们的地理重点是英国和爱尔兰共和国之间的“无国界边界”，这是英国脱欧后正在重新谈判的自然、文化、经济和情感边界。这项研究旨在了解边境口岸以及与这个独特地方的更广泛关系如何支撑年轻人的价值观和信仰体系。更重要的是，它探讨了a）这些相互作用如何影响北爱尔兰未来的宪法变革（以及英国和/或爱尔兰共和国的政治构成）以及b）未来的边界会是什么样子。那些生活在爱尔兰边境沿线以及北爱尔兰境内的人们对公民身份有着独特的重叠主张，并通过 1998 年的《耶稣受难日协议》保护跨境迁徙自由。然而，英国脱欧带来的不确定性可能会破坏这一进程，给他们带来了独特的挑战。边界的物质、象征和地缘政治背景。我们将与 16 至 24 岁的年轻人（在英国脱欧公投中被排除在投票范围之外）一起工作，绘制、记录和询问流动性、公民身份和身份。我们的参与者包括六年级学生和在贝尔法斯特、德里-伦敦德里、纽里、阿马和恩尼斯基林参与青年项目的年轻人。我们将使用参与式研究方法（数字民族志和电影制作）来记录他们的经历；年轻人由于其“学徒公民”的身份，常常缺席或被忽视，比如爱尔兰边境问题和英国脱欧对政治的影响。北爱尔兰宪法。为了改变这一点，该项目包括北爱尔兰行政部门内参与者和政策制定者之间的知识交流途径。为了实现这一目标，我们正在与我们的项目合作伙伴德里神经中心（项目合作者和北爱尔兰领先的创意媒体艺术中心）联络，并与北爱尔兰教育部合作。参与者将共同策划电影放映和展览，将年轻人和主要政治决策者聚集在一起。该项目提供了两条产生影响的关键途径。首先，参与者将获得数字民族志或电影制作方面的创意媒体技能，并保留他们为大学作品集、简历等制作的任何项目材料的版权。他们将通过共同策划电影放映和电影放映活动，成为知识交流伙伴关系的合作伙伴。为政策制定者、政治家和主要组织（例如社区关系委员会和青年行动）举办的展览，展示年轻人如何概念化边界及其公民身份。其次，该项目与对以下方面感兴趣的政治组织进行合作：a）围绕北爱尔兰宪法问题进行决策；b）未来与欧盟的关系将会是什么样子。这些参与者将受益于让年轻人直接告知政策，并将参与电影放映和展览、政策简报、参与机会（例如 KESS 研讨会系列）和我们现有的网络（调查人员有与政策制定者一起工作的记录）在NI）。我们将撰写至少四篇同行评审文章，举办有关英国脱欧、青年和年轻人的研讨会，并参加相关学术会议。虽然该项目的重点是爱尔兰边境沿线的边境动态，但它将对生活在其他有争议的边境空间的人们产生更广泛的共鸣，鼓励使用参与性研究方法来展示在政治辩论中经常被边缘化的声音。