Storying Life Courses for Intersectional Inclusion: Ethnicity and Wellbeing Across Time and Place

讲述交叉包容的生命历程：跨越时间和地点的种族和福祉

• 批准号: ES/W012383/1
• 负责人: Majella Kilkey
• 金额: $ 142.04万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 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=ES%2FW012383%2F1
• 关键词: Storying; Life; Courses; Intersectional; Inclusion

The current prominence of the Black Lives Matter Movement, along with evidence of the unequal morbidity, mortality and socio-economic impacts of Covid-19, have highlighted the entrenched and systemic ethnic and racialised inequalities in UK society. These have a detrimental impact on older members of the Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER)* population, as well as on its younger members. Indeed, the two are inseparable, as racialised experiences of inequality and exclusion encountered in earlier years, accumulate over the life course, resulting in significant ethnic inequalities in later life across a range of social outcomes.Research and policy agendas designed to foster more inclusive ageing scenarios for the population at large have gained traction in recent years, albeit against a backdrop of prevailing societal ageism as a system of inequality and a major form of exclusion. Such agendas have increasingly acknowledged the importance of a life course perspective for inclusive ageing, understanding later-life positionings as cumulative of advantage and disadvantage over time. Older people's life courses, however, have been treated in quite homogenised ways. This means that in prevailing conceptualisations of inclusive ageing, vital intersections between ageing and ethnicity, and between ageism and racism, have been missed. This timely and bold project will plug that fundamental knowledge gap. Its key aim is to critically interrogate accepted interpretations of social inclusion/exclusion in order to reconceptualise them from the perspective of the BAMER population's life courses, and to employ this reconceptualisation as the basis for a new understanding of inclusive ageing and the steps needed to achieve it. As with the older population, the BAMER population is diverse in itself, with dynamic and multidimensional identities and experiences mediated by for example, gender, socio-economic position, migration background, sexuality, religion and disability. In this project, therefore, we take an 'intersectional life course' approach, unpacking experiences within the BAMER population. We also focus on the important role that place plays in shaping intersectional life course experiences. This includes the material resources available in local places, such as housing and social care, as well as the sense of attachment, belonging and identity places engender or not. For those with a migration background, place is likely to be multi-sited, with experiences in the place of residence produced and re-produced in relation to places elsewhere. With the high-impact ambition of re-imagining socially inclusive ageing policies and practices, the project's interdisciplinary team (spanning Social Gerontology, Sociology, Geography, Social Policy, Social Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Migration Studies and Public Health) of highly experienced academic investigators will research in partnership with BAMER groups and other key local and national stakeholders. These are included variously in the project as Co-investigators, Policy & Practice Partners, Community Researchers, Voice Forum and Stakeholder Platform members. In undertaking impactful co-produced research, we will centre the lived experience of BAMER older people, employing a creative 'storying' approach throughout the project. This will give us a participant-led, inclusive and adaptive way of developing knowledge with those who have experienced exclusion and/or exploitation. Through an innovative combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, we will co-construct a more pluralistic and inclusive knowledge-base and provide a catalyst for change, identifying creative policy and practice steps at micro, meso and macro levels to prevent the risks of exclusion and to promote inclusive ageing. *We prefer to use the term "Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic and Refugee" in full, but space constrains us.

当前“黑人生命也是命”运动的突出表现，以及 Covid-19 造成的不平等发病率、死亡率和社会经济影响的证据，凸显了英国社会根深蒂固的、系统性的种族和种族不平等。这些对黑人、亚洲人和少数族裔和难民 (BAMER)* 人口中的老年成员以及年轻成员产生了不利影响。事实上，两者是密不可分的，因为早年遇到的不平等和排斥的种族化经历在生命历程中不断积累，导致晚年生活中一系列社会结果中出现严重的种族不平等。旨在促进更具包容性的老龄化的研究和政策议程近年来，尽管普遍存在社会年龄歧视作为一种不平等制度和一种主要的排斥形式，但针对广大民众的设想却越来越受到关注。这些议程越来越多地认识到生命历程视角对于包容性老龄化的重要性，将晚年生活定位理解为随着时间的推移优势和劣势的累积。然而，老年人的生命历程却受到相当同质化的对待。这意味着，在包容性老龄化的流行概念中，老龄化与种族、年龄歧视与种族主义之间的重要交叉点被忽视了。这个及时而大胆的项目将填补这一基础知识空白。其主要目的是批判性地质疑对社会包容/排斥的公认解释，以便从 BAMER 人口生命历程的角度重新概念化它们，并将这种重新概念化作为对包容性老龄化和实现包容性老龄化所需步骤的新理解的基础。它。与老年人口一样，BAMER 人口本身也是多样化的，具有动态和多维的身份和经历，例如性别、社会经济地位、移民背景、性取向、宗教和残疾。因此，在这个项目中，我们采用“交叉生命历程”方法，解析 BAMER 人群的经历。我们还关注场所在塑造交叉生命历程体验中所发挥的重要作用。这包括当地现有的物质资源，例如住房和社会关怀，以及当地产生或不产生的依恋感、归属感和认同感。对于那些有移民背景的人来说，地点可能是多地点的，在居住地产生并复制与其他地方相关的经验。怀着重新构想社会包容性老龄化政策和实践的高影响力雄心，该项目的跨学科团队（涵盖社会老年学、社会学、地理学、社会政策、社会人类学、种族和民族研究、移民研究和公共卫生）拥有丰富的经验学术研究人员将与 BAMER 团体以及其他重要的地方和国家利益相关者合作进行研究。这些人以联合研究者、政策与实践合作伙伴、社区研究人员、声音论坛和利益相关者平台成员的身份包含在项目中。在开展有影响力的联合研究时，我们将以 BAMER 老年人的生活经历为中心，在整个项目中采用创造性的“讲故事”方法。这将为我们提供一种以参与者为主导、包容性和适应性的方式，与那些经历过排斥和/或剥削的人一起发展知识。通过定量和定性方法的创新结合，我们将共同构建更加多元化和包容性的知识库，并为变革提供催化剂，确定微观、中观和宏观层面的创造性政策和实践步骤，以防止排斥和排斥的风险。促进包容性老龄化。 *我们更喜欢完整地使用“黑人、亚洲人和少数族裔和难民”这一术语，但篇幅有限。