Everyday transnationalism of the far right: an interdisciplinary study of Polish immigrants' participation in far-right groups in Britain

极右翼的日常跨国主义：对波兰移民参与英国极右翼团体的跨学科研究

• 批准号: ES/W010151/2
• 负责人: Michal Garapich
• 金额: $ 63.31万
• 依托单位: London Metropolitan University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 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=ES%2FW010151%2F2
• 关键词: Everyday; transnationalism; far; right; interdisciplinary

As a consequence of EU enlargement in 2004 over one million Polish nationals have moved to the UK, creating Polish communities in almost every British town. Although there has been a significant amount of research looking into what is now one of the biggest British ethnic minorities, research into their political activism is still lacking. Furthermore, there are worrying signs of growth in popularity of far-right ideologies and groups among Polish immigrants. This issue has been reported by the media, NGOs monitoring radicalisation and Polish communities themselves who in vast majority refrain from legitimizing far-right ideologies. The trend has also attracted the interest of the British authorities due to an observable increase in racially aggravated acts of violence perpetrated by Polish immigrants in the UK. Coupled with growing influence of the far right in Poland, it is clear that we are witnessing a new kind of transnationalisation of far-right politics not just in terms of transnational connections between distinct national groups, but in terms of immigrants from Europe being attracted to far-right groups in receiving countries, run by host local populations. In addition, many Polish political parties and organisations are active in the UK, some of them forming alliances with local political parties. For example, a well-known Polish far-right activist living in Wales was also a candidate in 2021 local elections on behalf of UKIP.This project is a pioneering, risky and innovative study of this new phenomenon using a combination of ethnographic, qualitative methods and political science tools of discourse and ideology analysis. In six locations in Britain we will carry out observations of public events, rituals and gatherings of these organisations. We will conduct semi-structured interviews with members of these groups, as well as interviewing their British colleagues, and some members in Poland. Alongside this, we will conduct discourse analysis of their written communication - manifestos, pamphlets, blogs, songs, political declarations and so on.We aim to explore the migration-radicalisation trajectory of people, their reasons to join far-right groups, the extent to which their activism was imported or stimulated by their migration history, and how they make sense of their far-right ideas as migrants, white Europeans, Brits and/or Poles. The project will also explore the extent to which British localities have acted as radicalisation stimuli. In particular we will analyse the intellectual, practical and personnel exchanges between the British and the Polish far-right groups.Due to rise of far-right populism the project's departing assumption is that it is vital to examine the phenomena on the ground not as distant and external observers but as ethnographers who wish to understand the person behind the ideology. The overarching objective of this project is therefore to understand in order to prevent and mitigate. We believe it is crucial to approach, talk to, understand and intellectually engage members of far-right groups in order to design educational and policy tools to prevent people from being attracted by far-right discourse or acting upon far-right ideas. This research thus has clear social impact, both locally and internationally. This project will disseminate the findings among user groups such as: state institutions, and political decision-makers as well as local Polish communities that will find this knowledge useful when attempting to understand and address the phenomena examined by this project.

由于欧盟在2004年扩大，超过一百万波兰国民已移居英国，几乎在每个英国城镇创造了波兰社区。尽管已经进行了大量研究，研究了现在是英国最大的少数民族之一，但仍缺乏对其政治行动主义的研究。此外，在波兰移民中，极右翼意识形态和群体的普及迹象令人担忧。媒体报道了这个问题，非政府组织对激进化和波兰社区本身进行了报道，他们在绝大多数人中避免了使极右翼意识形态合法化。由于波兰移民在英国犯下的种族严重暴力行为的可观察到，这一趋势也引起了英国当局的兴趣。加上波兰极右派的影响力的日益增长，很明显，我们目睹了极右翼政治的一种新的跨国化，不仅在不同的民族团体之间的跨国联系方面，而且就欧洲的移民而言，被吸引到了受东道主当地人口经营的接收国家的极右派群体。此外，许多波兰政党和组织在英国都活跃，其中一些人与当地政党结盟。例如，居住在威尔士的著名的波兰极右翼激进主义者也是2021年代表UKIP的地方选举的候选人。该项目是对这种新现象的开创性，风险和创新性研究，结合了人种学，定性方法以及话语和意识形态分析的政治科学工具。在英国的六个地点，我们将对这些组织的公共活动，仪式和聚会进行观察。我们将对这些团体成员进行半结构化访谈，并采访他们的英国同事以及波兰的一些成员。除此之外，我们还将对他们的书面交流 - 宣言，小册子，博客，歌曲，政治宣言等进行分析。我们的目标是探索人们的移民激进化轨迹，他们加入极右派的理由，范围他们的行动主义是由于其移民历史进口或刺激的，以及他们如何理解自己作为移民，白人欧洲人，英国人和/或波兰人的极右派思想。该项目还将探讨英国地区作为激进刺激的程度。特别是我们将分析英国和波兰极右翼群体之间的智力，实践和人员交流。要兴起极右派的民粹主义，该项目的离开的假设是，检查地面上的现象至关重要和外部观察员，但作为希望理解意识形态背后的人的民族志学家。因此，该项目的总体目标是要理解以预防和减轻。我们认为，与极右翼团体的成员接触，交谈，理解并与之吸引，以设计教育和政策工具，以防止人们被极右派的话语吸引或采取极右翼的想法，这一点至关重要。因此，这项研究在本地和国际上都具有明显的社会影响。该项目将在诸如国家机构，政治决策者以及当地的波兰社区等用户群体之间传播发现，这些发现将在尝试理解和解决该项目所检查的现象时发现这种知识有用。