The Unenfranchised: Political exclusion and the parliamentary representation of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK parliament.

没有选举权：英国议会中难民和寻求庇护者的政治排斥和议会代表权。

• 批准号: 2746195
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 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=studentship-2746195
• 关键词: Unenfranchised; Political; exclusion; parliamentary; representation

This project aims to understand how and to what extent politically vulnerable groups, specifically refugees and asylum seekers, are represented in the UK parliamentary system. Utilising a mixed methods approach, this research will advance knowledge of democratic theory and practice in the UK by providing an empirical assessment of the parliamentary representation of refugees. This project will apply conceptual debates about representation and democracy framed around an inquiry into the political representation of refugees in the UK using advanced empirical methods such as content analysis, social network analysis (SNA) and semi-structured interviews; a series of mixed methods approaches enables this project to contribute to our understanding of parliamentary representation.This project challenges the implicit assumption in much political theory that only those with the right to vote can be represented in parliamentary democracies. This project assess how effective political representation is when a part of the 'represented' remain unenfranchised. Through the critical analysis of parliamentary speeches, texts and a wider dataset, I will seek to understand the representation of a vulnerable unenfranchised group, refugees and asylum seekers. The UK has been chosen for this study because of its long established tradition of representative parliamentary democracy and the salience of parliamentary debates about refugees in recent years.This project situates itself in the surrogate representation theory (SRT) literature by focussing on the question of representation where there is no electoral relationship between representatives and constituents. With previous studies focusing on the representation of voter issues that are not limited by constituencies; this project aims to plug a gap in the literature by applying the concept to within-district SRT, that is those who are not eligible to vote but who reside within a parliamentary district. This study will expand our understanding of representation theoretically and empirically and effectively evaluate the capacity of the representative parliamentary system to be inclusive of vulnerable minorities. My research builds on SRT by emphasising that when we think of constituents as voters we miss the importance of representing constituents who cannot vote.My proposed research will critically evaluate how MPs as formally elected representatives substantively represent refugees in comparison to other non-parliamentary methods of representing refugees, such as through political advocacy by NGOs. This project will therefore contribute to the existing scholarly debate by creating a measure of representation in parliament to mean active consideration of issues that affect refugees. This will be measured and defined as things such as MPs asking questions; proposing early day motions; being a member of a relevant APPG. These measures are aimed at quantifying MP representation in order to gain a fuller picture of the extent to which refugees are represented adequately in absentia.This will be complemented by methods such as SNA which is useful for building complex pictures of interactions that affect the way in which an MP represents refugees to be visualised. Multivariate regression analysis will be conducted following on from the content analysis to build a measure of representation, this is important to aid understanding and analysis. This will be quantified by coding parliamentary behaviour in order to generate MP level metrics for regression analysis. MP interviews will be conducted so a comparison can be drawn between the quantitative data analysed about the extent to which MPs represent refugee issues, and the narrative that MPs articulate in their role as a representative.Research objectives:1.To understand how the unenfranchised are represented in a parliamentary democracy.2. To evaluate if refugees are adequately represented in the UK parliament drawing o

该项目旨在了解在英国议会制度中代表的政治脆弱群体（特别是难民和寻求庇护者）的政治脆弱群体，特别是难民和寻求庇护者的程度。利用混合方法方法，这项研究将通过对难民的议会代表提供经验评估来提高英国民主理论和实践的知识。该项目将采用有关代表性和民主的概念辩论，围绕着对英国难民的政治代表的调查，使用先进的经验方法，例如内容分析，社交网络分析（SNA）和半结构化访谈；一系列混合方法使该项目能够为我们对议会代表的理解做出贡献。该项目挑战了许多政治理论中隐含的假设，即只有有投票权的人才能在议会民主国家中得到代表。当“代表”的一部分尚未得到保证时，该项目评估了政治代表权的有效性。通过对议会演讲，文本和更广泛的数据集的批判性分析，我将寻求了解脆弱的无特许团体，难民和寻求庇护者的代表。这项研究之所以选择英国，是因为近年来，其代表性议会民主的悠久传统以及议会辩论的显着性。该项目将自己的代表性理论（SRT）文献置于代表问题上，而不是代表性问题，而代表问题没有代表问题，而代表问题则没有代表性的问题。先前的研究重点是不受选民限制的选民问题的代表；该项目旨在通过将概念应用于分区内部的SRT，即那些不符合投票权，但居住在议会区中的人来弥补文献差距。这项研究将在理论上，经验上有效地评估代表性议会制度包含弱势群体的能力的理解。我的研究以SRT为基础，强调当我们将选民视为选民时，我们错过了代表无法投票的成员的重要性。我拟议的研究将严格评估与其他非参与性的代表其他非委员会相比，通过政治代表诸如Ngos的政治范围的非律师的正式代表代表的正式当选代表。因此，该项目将通过在议会中创建一定的代表性来为现有的学术辩论做出贡献，以意味着对影响难民的问题的积极考虑。这将被衡量并定义为诸如国会议员提出问题之类的事情；提出初期动议；作为相关APPG的成员。这些措施旨在量化MP表示形式，以便更全面地了解难民在缺席中充分代表的程度。这种方法将通过SNA等方法进行补充，SNA有助于构建影响MP代表可视化的互动方式的复杂相互作用图片。将从内容分析中进行多元回归分析以构建表示表示，这对于帮助理解和分析很重要。这将通过编码议会行为来量化这一点，以生成用于回归分析的MP水平指标。将进行MP访谈，以便可以在分析MP代表难民问题的程度的定量数据之间进行比较，以及MPS在其作为代表的角色中表达的叙述。研究：1。了解如何在议会民主党中代表未经宪法的人。2。评估难民在英国议会图中是否有足够的代表