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

该项目旨在了解政治弱势群体（特别是难民和寻求庇护者）在英国议会体系中的代表方式和程度。这项研究将采用混合方法，通过对难民的议会代表权进行实证评估，增进对英国民主理论和实践的了解。该项目将运用内容分析、社交网络分析（SNA）和半结构化访谈等先进的实证方法，围绕英国难民的政治代表性调查，应用关于代表性和民主的概念辩论；一系列混合方法使该项目有助于我们对议会代表权的理解。该项目挑战了许多政治理论中的隐含假设，即只有那些拥有投票权的人才能在议会民主国家中拥有代表权。该项目评估当一部分“被代表”仍然没有选举权时政治代表的有效性。通过对议会演讲、文本和更广泛的数据集的批判性分析，我将寻求了解弱势群体、难民和寻求庇护者的代表性。英国之所以被选为这项研究的对象，是因为其长期以来建立的代议制议会民主传统以及近年来议会关于难民的辩论的突出性。该项目将自己置于替代代表理论（SRT）文献中，重点关注代表问题代表和选民之间不存在选举关系。以往的研究主要关注不受选区限制的选民代表性问题；该项目旨在通过将该概念应用于选区内 SRT（即那些没有资格投票但居住在议会选区的人）来填补文献中的空白。这项研究将从理论上和实证上拓展我们对代议制的理解，并有效评估代议制议会制度包容弱势少数群体的能力。我的研究以 SRT 为基础，强调当我们将选民视为选民时，我们忽略了代表不能投票的选民的重要性。我提出的研究将批判性地评估议员作为正式选举产生的代表与其他非议会方法相比如何实质性地代表难民。代表难民，例如通过非政府组织的政治宣传。因此，该项目将通过在议会中建立一定的代表性来促进现有的学术辩论，以意味着积极考虑影响难民的问题。这将被衡量和定义为诸如国会议员提问等事情；提出早期动议；是相关 APPG 的成员。这些措施旨在量化国会议员的代表性，以便更全面地了解难民在缺席情况下得到充分代表的程度。这将得到国民账户体系等方法的补充，这些方法有助于构建影响移民方式的复杂互动图景。其中一名议员代表难民进行可视化。内容分析之后将进行多元回归分析，以建立代表性度量，这对于帮助理解和分析很重要。这将通过对议会行为进行编码来量化，以便生成用于回归分析的议员级别指标。将进行议员访谈，以便对议员代表难民问题程度的定量数据进行比较，以及议员作为代表所阐述的叙述。研究目标：1.了解没有选举权的人如何受到影响实行议会民主制。2．评估难民在英国议会中是否有足够的代表性