Firm and fair? Bureaucracy, asylum policy, and everyday border work in the English Channel

坚定、公平？

• 批准号: 2593720
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2593720
• 关键词: Firm; fair; Bureaucracy; asylum; policy

'Small boat' crossings of the English Channel have attracted significant British political/media attention in recent years. In summer 2020, the Home Office launched a renewed campaign against these attempts at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, laying the groundwork for both unprecedented further spending on border militarisation, and the proposed asylum policy' overhaul' under the rubric 'firm and fair'. To date, there has been limited empirical engagement with the British role in governing the Anglo-Franco borderland, including developments in the Channel. Further academic work is needed to improve understandings not just of how asylum seekers using this route are constructed in policy, and why, but how this relates to their everyday treatment on the ground.This proposed research asks how politicians, policymakers and operational staff within the Home Office construct, justify and enact, both the 'problem' and their own actions, in this space. It asks: How are contemporary Home Office interventions in the Channel presented and understood by its politicians, policymakers, and operational staff? How are border policies enacted on the South Coast? In what ways does this contemporary border work relate to the longue durée of British Immigration 'management'? Three qualitative methods will be used in an interdisciplinary approach. Firstly, contemporary discourse analysis will track official Channel policies and discourse over time, and comparative historical case-studies identified and explored. Secondly, elite semi-structured interviews will probe how policymakers make sense of their own work and negotiate competing interests/logics surrounding 'small boats'. Thirdly, ethnography with Border Force will explore how policies are translated, understood and enacted on the ground.This research will contribute to three main bodies of literature. Firstly, cross-disciplinary literature on the administrative and social practices at work within bureaucratic institutions of power. Secondly, literature on border work, both discursive and enacted. And thirdly, scholarship which examines links between contemporary border work and colonial/racialized histories of British migration management.The task of understanding bureaucratic institutions is not an easy one given issues of access, complexity, and sheer size. It is, however, necessary that as scholars we seek to advance knowledge of the processes at work within these 'black boxes' of power. This research seeks to add a timely contribution to knowledge about migration management in the UK, through the understudied lens of the Home Office and its actors. As such, it will be of interest both to actors within the Home Office, and to NGOs and advocacy organisations.

近年来，“小船”穿越英吉利海峡引起了英国政界/媒体的高度关注。2020 年夏季，英国内政部在新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 疫情最严重的时期发起了新一轮打击此类企图的运动，为这两种行为奠定了基础。边境军事化方面前所未有的进一步支出，以及在“坚定和公平”的标题下拟议的庇护政策“彻底改革”。 迄今为止，对英国在管理英法边境的作用（包括英法边境的发展）的实证研究还很有限。 。更远需要开展学术工作来提高对政策中如何构建寻求庇护者及其原因的理解，以及这与他们在当地的日常待遇有何关系。这项拟议的研究询问政治家、政策制定者和庇护所内的运作人员如何办公室在这个领域构建、证明和制定“问题”和他们自己的行动，它询问：政治家、政策制定者和操作人员如何呈现和理解当代内政部的干预措施？南海岸以什么方式制定？这项当代边境工作与长期的英国移民“管理”有关吗？将采用跨学科方法使用三种定性方法。首先，当代话语分析将跟踪官方渠道政策和话语，并进行比较历史案例研究。其次，精英半结构化访谈将探讨政策制定者如何理解自己的工作并围绕“小船”协商相互竞争的利益/逻辑。第三，与边境部队的民族志将探讨如何在小船上翻译、理解和制定政策。这项研究将对三个主要文献做出贡献：首先，关于官僚权力机构内行政和社会实践的跨学科文献；其次，关于边境工作的文献，包括论述性和制定性的文献；第三，关于边境工作的文献。探讨了当代边境工作与英国移民管理的殖民/种族化历史之间的联系。考虑到准入、复杂性和庞大的规模等问题，理解官僚机构的任务并不容易。提前了解流程这项研究旨在通过内政部及其参与者的深入研究，为英国移民管理的知识做出及时的贡献。内政部、非政府组织和倡导组织的参与者。