Navigating the Labyrinth: The impact and experiences of the Syrian refugee resettlement programme in comparative policy contexts

穿越迷宫：比较政策背景下叙利亚难民重新安置计划的影响和经验

• 批准号: ES/X006409/1
• 负责人: Hannah Haycox
• 金额: $ 12.97万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX006409%2F1
• 关键词: Navigating; Labyrinth; impact; experiences; Syrian

The Syrian civil war has been described as resulting in 'the biggest humanitarian...crisis of our time' (UNHCR, 2017a: 4). By the end of 2013, UNHCR had registered over 6 million displaced people due to the conflict (UNHCR, 2013), resulting in an unprecedented average of 9,500 people being forced to leave their homes in Syria each day (Albuja et al., 2014). Established in 2014 and subsequently expanded in 2015, the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) was introduced by the UK government to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees between 2015-2020, with a primary focus on maintaining family units. Since the creation of the VPRS, 20,007 people have been resettled as part of the programme, with half of the recipients aged under 18 at the time of arrival (Wilkins, 2020) and 99.6% of refugees self-identifying as of Syrian nationality (Bolt, 2020). Distinct from the UK mainstream asylum system, recipients of the resettlement scheme were granted immediate recourse to public funds, temporary residency and permission to work.My doctoral research is the first to compare two different local Council approaches to the VPRS, from a perspective that evaluates the impact and experiences of policy. Prior research has tended to focus on the VPRS as perpetuating a two-tier system of asylum (see Karyotis et al, 2020), rarely unpacking both the processes by which policy is formulated, and its entailing consequences in the lives of recipients. Drawing on forty in-depth interviews with Syrian families and practitioners, my research provides a vital contribution to existing knowledge on resettlement, by exploring both the rationale behind policy design, and its subsequent impact on recipients as individuals, and within families. This project seeks to further enhance the valuable impact of my research by delivering a programme of activities to academic audiences, policymakers, refugee community organisations (RCOs) and the broader public. It will consolidate my publication record through the production of two key academic outputs: firstly; a book manuscript and, secondly; a high-impact, journal article. The book manuscript will be targeted towards Policy Press following preliminary discussions with the editor, with the journal article submitted to the Journal of Refugee Studies. The empirical data consolidated during this project will be disseminated to an international academic audience at the 'International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion' conference (IMISCOE), Europe's largest network of researchers in the area of migration and integration. Over the duration of the fellowship, the project will also shed light on the micro and macro experiences of VPRS refugees through mixed-methods research, an area of scholarship that is surprisingly limited on the topic of resettlement. Existing interview data collected with refugee families and practitioners during my doctorate will be integrated with Census, survey and Home Office data. The pursuit of further limited research will not only consolidate the data collected as part of my ESRC-funded doctorate, but will advance my long-term career aspirations by enhancing my existing quantitative research methods training.Two impact activities will also be implemented: firstly; a public policy workshop and secondly; providing expert commentary through media engagement. The public policy workshop will facilitate constructive dialogues between policy practitioners, refugee organisations and researchers. Creative methods will be used to prompt discussions and a two-page policy 'toolkit' will be produced and distributed widely to local Councils. The evidence disseminated during my expert commentary on the BBC North-West Tonight News will include the open-access Census, survey and Home Office data analysed as a result of this fellowship, but will exclude any references to interview transcripts or fieldwork sites to protect participants' confidentiality.

叙利亚内战被描述为导致“我们这个时代最大的人道主义……危机”（难民署，2017a：4）。截至 2013 年底，难民署登记了超过 600 万因冲突而流离失所的人（难民署，2013 年），导致叙利亚每天有 9,500 人被迫离开家园，这是前所未有的（Albuja 等人，2014 年） 。英国政府于 2014 年设立并于 2015 年扩大了弱势群体安置计划 (VPRS)，旨在于 2015 年至 2020 年间安置 20,000 名叙利亚难民，其主要重点是维持家庭单位。自 VPRS 创建以来，作为该计划的一部分，已有 20,007 人得到重新安置，其中一半接收者在抵达时年龄在 18 岁以下（Wilkins，2020 年），99.6% 的难民自我认定为叙利亚国籍（Bolt） ，2020）。与英国主流庇护制度不同，重新安置计划的接受者可以立即获得公共资金、临时居留权和工作许可。我的博士研究是第一个比较当地议会对 VPRS 的两种不同方法的研究，从评估的角度来看政策的影响和经验。先前的研究往往将重点放在 VPRS 上，因为它延续了两层庇护制度（参见 Karyotis 等人，2020），很少剖析政策制定的过程及其对接受者生活的影响。我的研究基于对叙利亚家庭和从业者的四十次深入访谈，通过探索政策设计背后的基本原理及其对接受者个人和家庭内部的后续影响，为现有的重新安置知识做出了重要贡献。该项目旨在通过向学术受众、政策制定者、难民社区组织 (RCO) 和更广泛的公众提供活动计划，进一步增强我的研究的宝贵影响。它将通过两项重要的学术成果来巩固我的出版记录：首先；其次是书籍手稿；一篇高影响力的期刊文章。在与编辑进行初步讨论后，该书的手稿将面向政策出版社，并将期刊文章提交给《难民研究杂志》。该项目期间整合的经验数据将在“国际移民、融合和社会凝聚力”会议（IMISCOE）上向国际学术受众传播，该会议是欧洲移民和融合领域最大的研究人员网络。在奖学金期间，该项目还将通过混合方法研究揭示 VPRS 难民的微观和宏观经历，这一学术领域令人惊讶地仅限于重新安置主题。在我攻读博士学位期间收集的与难民家庭和从业人员的现有访谈数据将与人口普查、调查和内政部数据整合。追求进一步有限的研究不仅会巩固我在 ESRC 资助的博士学位期间收集的数据，而且会通过加强我现有的定量研究方法培训来推进我的长期职业抱负。还将实施两项影响活动：首先；其次是公共政策研讨会；通过媒体参与提供专家评论。公共政策研讨会将促进政策执行者、难民组织和研究人员之间的建设性对话。将使用创造性方法来促进讨论，​​并将制作并广泛分发给地方议会的两页政策“工具包”。我在《BBC 西北今夜新闻》的专家评论中传播的证据将包括因本次奖学金而分析的开放获取的人口普查、调查和内政部数据，但将排除任何对采访记录或实地工作地点的引用，以保护参与者' 保密性。