Refugee integration and family reunification: The impact of 'the deserving mother' in the context of the UK and Denmark

难民融入和家庭团聚：“值得母亲”在英国和丹麦背景下的影响

• 批准号: EP/Y006364/1
• 负责人: Mette Berg
• 金额: $ 26万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY006364%2F1
• 关键词: Refugee; integration; family; reunification; impact

In 2016, an EU proposal to better protect refugees stated that there is a direct link between family reunification, mental health and successful integration. According to UNCHR, when families are separated, they find it more difficult to learn the local language, find employment and create local networks. Despite numerous European governments acknowledging the importance of family reunification in integration processes, little is known about how these reunified families negotiate access to welfare support, and by extension to integration, in a migration milieu that is structurally configured to exclude them. Migration research often views mothers as transmitting traditional, ethnically specific values and cultural resources to their children, and their role as either hindering or aiding their children's integration is usually the key focus of policy-makers. The aim of this project is to examine and understand, through a comparative analysis of the UK and Denmark - two welfare regimes with converging immigration policies - the integration processes of reunified families through the lens of the refugee mother. Drawing on anthropological and interdisciplinary approachesin the field of migration and gender studies, this study will examine how refugee mothers negotiate deservingness to welfare services and how they may challenge, change and impact on the integration processes through new forms of community and everyday practices of belonging. By taking the refugee mothers as the ethnographic point of departure, I will explore how interrelated understandings of motherhood, mothering and family are negotiated in 'welfare micropublics' (Berg et al. 2019) with advocates and street-level bureaucrats, and within the refugee families. The bringing together of the motherhood and family reunification scholarships will provide a unique insight into not only the experiences of refugee women but also the kind of policies that might better support an inclusive integration.

2016年，欧盟一项更好地保护难民的建议表示，家庭团聚，心理健康和成功融合之间存在直接联系。根据UNCHR的说法，当家庭分开时，他们发现学习本地语言，找到就业并创建本地网络更加困难。尽管许多欧洲政府都承认家庭统一在整合过程中的重要性，但对于这些团聚的家庭如何谈判获得福利支持的机会，并扩展到整合的迁移环境中，在结构上配置以排除它们的情况下，知之甚少。移民研究经常将母亲视为将传统的，种族特定的价值观和文化资源传播给其子女，而他们作为阻碍或帮助孩子融合的作用通常是政策制定者的关键重点。该项目的目的是通过对英国和丹麦的比较分析来检查和理解 - 两种具有融合移民政策的福利制度 - 通过难民母亲的镜头团聚家庭的整合过程。这项研究利用人类学和跨学科的方法在移民和性别研究领域中，将研究难民母亲如何通过新的社区和日常归属实践来谈判对福利服务的应有性，以及他们如何挑战，改变，改变和影响整合过程。通过将难民母亲作为民族志的出发点，我将探讨如何在“福利微观公开”（Berg etal。2019）与拥护者和街头级别的官僚以及在难民家庭中进行相互关联的孕产，母亲和家庭的理解。培育母亲和家庭统一奖学金将不仅为难民妇女的经历，而且还可以更好地支持包容性融合的政策提供独特的见解。