The Language of (Im)mobility: time and the language politics of migrant integration

（Im）流动性的语言：时间和移民融入的语言政治

• 批准号: ES/X007154/1
• 负责人: Leonie Schulte
• 金额: $ 13.89万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 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%2FX007154%2F1
• 关键词: Language; Im; mobility; time; language

Based on over 15-months of ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, Germany, my doctoral thesis examined the impacts of state-sanctioned language-integration requirements on newcomers' socioeconomic (im)mobility. In so doing, I found that while the stated aim of such programmes is to accelerate newcomers' socioeconomic incorporation, in practice, they significantly delay their access to work, higher education, citizenship and a sense of inclusion. This means that largely because of these policies, most newcomers spend their first few years in Germany in prolonged periods of socio-economic uncertainty and precarity. Given the urgent academic and policy insights gained from my PhD research, the proposed research aims to (a) develop and engage in impact activities through which to influence policy decisions going forward, and (b) contribute to current interdisciplinary academic scholarship on migration and integration in Europe. My extensive fieldwork has uncovered key issues that are only accessible through ethnographic work, and these should be made visible to local actors and policy makers in order to (a) contribute new forms of expert knowledge to policy makers and (b) identify new focus points for future policy development. This fellowship will, thus, enable me to forge a still absent, though urgently necessary bridge between policy makers and those subject to integration policies.(a)I will convene meetings with local NGOs who aid and consult migrants and refugees in their employment search and to navigate the language-integration system,(b)I will schedule a focus group meeting with my existing network of interlocutors.Steps (a) and (b) will involve sharing my core research findings with local actors and those directly subject to integration policies in order to draft key policy recommendations to be communicated to local, national and EU-level policymakers. (c)I will convene a workshop with members of the Federal Office for Refugees and Migrants (BAMF) and the Berlin Integration Minister, through which to communicate ethnographically derived findings from my PhD research. This will give me the opportunity to revisit the core findings of my research, and to communicate the lived experiences of migrants and refugees in Germany to state actors who design and implement integration policies. I will thus create a platform through which to impact current policy decision-making through qualitative research. (d) My meetings with local and state actors, as well as my existing network of interlocutors will result in the development and submission of policy reports to the Federal Office of Refugees and Migrants, the Committee on Migration and Integration, and the EESC Thematic study group on immigration and integration (IMI). This planned output will impact the ways in which access to citizenship, permanent residency, higher education, and employment is regulated, by demonstrating, through qualitative, interdisciplinary evidence, the socio-temporal and economic consequences state-mandated language learning requirements have on refugees and migrants in Germany. Building my networks with local NGOs will, furthermore, allow me to develop new avenues of inquiry for further research.(e)I will submit two academic articles based on my PhD research, which will fill urgent empirical gaps on questions of migration, language learning and future building in Europe. (f)Next to presenting my work at international conferences, I will organise and convene an interdisciplinary workshop at UCL on the intersections of language, migration and time. This will, not only allow me to bolster my academic career, but it will also allow me to build upon my existing networks in social science research. (g)I will communicate and disseminate my findings in public-facing venues. This will contribute to greater awareness around the experiences of refugees and migrants in Europe, and contribute to public discourses around these matters, more broadly.

我的博士论文基于在德国柏林进行的超过 15 个月的民族志实地考察，研究了国家批准的语言融入要求对新移民社会经济（非）流动性的影响。在这样做的过程中，我发现，虽然此类计划的既定目标是加速新移民的社会经济融入，但实际上，它们大大延迟了他们获得工作、高等教育、公民身份和融入感的机会。这意味着，很大程度上由于这些政策，大多数新移民在德国的最初几年都处于长期的社会经济不确定性和不稳定状态。鉴于我从博士研究中获得的紧迫学术和政策见解，拟议的研究旨在（a）开展并参与影响力活动，通过这些活动影响未来的政策决策，以及（b）为当前关于移民和融合的跨学科学术奖学金做出贡献在欧洲。我广泛的实地工作发现了只有通过民族志工作才能了解的关键问题，这些问题应该让当地行动者和政策制定者可见，以便（a）为政策制定者贡献新形式的专业知识，（b）确定新的焦点以供未来政策制定之用。因此，这项研究金将使我能够在政策制定者和受融合政策影响的人们之间架起一座仍然缺席但迫切需要的桥梁。(a)我将与当地非政府组织召开会议，这些非政府组织在移民和难民寻找就业机会方面提供援助和咨询，并为他们提供咨询服务。为了驾驭语言一体化系统，(b)我将安排与现有对话者网络举行焦点小组会议。步骤 (a) 和 (b) 将涉及与当地参与者和直接受一体化政策影响的人员分享我的核心研究成果为了起草关键政策建议，传达给地方、国家和欧盟层面的政策制定者。 (c) 我将与联邦难民和移民办公室 (BAMF) 的成员以及柏林一体化部长召开一次研讨会，通过该研讨会交流我的博士研究中的人种学发现。这将使我有机会重新审视我的研究的核心发现，并向设计和实施融合政策的国家行为者传达德国移民和难民的生活经历。因此，我将创建一个平台，通过定性研究影响当前的政策决策。 (d) 我与地方和国家行为者的会面以及我现有的对话者网络将导致制定并向联邦难民和移民办公室、移民和融合委员会以及欧洲经济委员会专题研究提交政策报告移民和融合小组（IMI）。该计划产出将通过定性、跨学科证据证明国家规定的语言学习要求对难民和难民产生的社会时间和经济后果，从而影响获得公民身份、永久居留权、高等教育和就业的监管方式。德国的移民。此外，与当地非政府组织建立网络将使我能够为进一步的研究开发新的探究途径。(e)我将根据我的博士研究提交两篇学术文章，这将填补移民、语言学习问题方面的紧迫实证空白以及欧洲的未来建筑。 (f) 除了在国际会议上展示我的工作之外，我将在伦敦大学学院组织并召开一次关于语言、移民和时间交叉点的跨学科研讨会。这不仅可以让我加强我的学术生涯，而且还可以让我在社会科学研究方面建立现有的网络。 (g)我将在面向公众的场所传达和传播我的发现。这将有助于提高人们对欧洲难民和移民经历的认识，并有助于更广泛地围绕这些问题进行公众讨论。