Understanding trans* asylum seekers' experiences of UK border practices

了解跨性别*寻求庇护者在英国边境实践中的经历

• 批准号: 2876745
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2876745
• 关键词: Understanding; trans; asylum; seekers; experiences

Trans* asylum seekers in the UK are acutely marginalized by the UK's asylum system. As asylum seekers they face the structural violence of UK border policies that extend border policing throughout UK society in ways that create racialised and class precarity in areas from employment, and housing to healthcare. For trans* asylum seekers this violence is further exacerbated not only by the notoriously low rate at which gender identity asylum claims are accepted by the Home Office but by a wider maze of bureaucratic hurdles and misgendering that further undermine their safety and access to support in domestic British society. Yet, despite the intersectional nature of the challenges trans* asylum seekers face, even sympathetic existing research does little to engage with their lived experiences, perspectives and agency in relation to the UK border system. This is not only a gap in the academic literature but also limits our understanding of how they navigate theUK's existing migration policies and how these might be made less exclusionary.In response to this, my research will foreground trans* asylum seekers lived experiences of UK border practices through use of multi-sited ethnography. Through this I will both draw further attention to the specific ways existing policies exacerbate trans* Asylum seekers' marginalization and the strategies they use to negotiate the UK border system.In doing this I will show how structures of class, race, coloniality and gender interact with the UK border as a transnational site that produces particularly western understandings of transness and cis-normativity. Through this I hope to contribute to the task of decolonizing European trans studies by highlighting the ways domestic western conceptualizations of transness are not a neutral pregiven object of analysis but rather actively enforced and reproduced through border practices which permeate domestic UK society. In this I will also contribute to wider theoretical debates in International Relations on borders as socially produced phenomena by foregrounding the role of cis-normativity in constituting border practices in ways that transcend the conventional distinction between domestic and international politics. Methodologically I will perform a multi-sited ethnography comprised of initial critical discourse analysis of relevant policy documents, embedded participant observation with organizations that support trans* asylum seekersand semi-structured interviews with trans* asylum seekers and key policy makers identified during the participant observation.Through this I hope contribute to wider theoretical debates on the colonial production of transness sand cis-normativity and the domestic/international distinction in International politics. Beyond this I will also provide clear policy recommendations for local and national level policy actors on reducing their marginalization trans* asylum seekers and hope to contribute to shifting academic and policy discussions to being with rather than about trans asylum seekers.

英国的跨*寻求庇护者被英国的庇护系统敏锐地边缘化。作为寻求庇护者，他们面临着英国边境政策的结构性暴力行为，这些暴力以在整个英国社会中扩展边境警务，从而在从就业和住房到医疗保健的地区创造种族化和阶级的卑鄙。对于跨性别者寻求庇护者，这种暴力不仅会因臭名昭著的低率而加剧了性别认同庇护所索赔的较低率，而且由于官僚主义的障碍和错误性的更广泛的迷宫，这进一步破坏了他们在英国国内社会的安全和获得支持。然而，尽管跨性别者面临的挑战面临着挑战的交叉性质，但即使是同情的现有研究也无能为力与他们与英国边境系统有关的生活经验，观点和代理。这不仅是学术文献中的差距，而且还限制了我们对他们如何浏览Theuk现有的移民政策以及如何使这些迁移政策的理解。在对此的回应中，我的研究将通过使用多人民族志的使用来预测英国边境实践的经验。通过这种情况，我都将进一步关注现有政策的特定方式加剧反式*寻求庇护者的边缘化以及他们用来谈判英国边境系统的策略。在此过程中，我将展示阶级，种族，殖民地和性别的结构如何与英国边境相互作用，以与跨性别者相互作用，以产生跨性别的跨性别，从而使西方的跨性别理解具有跨性别的跨性别理解。通过这种情况，我希望通过强调国内西方跨性别的概念化的方式不是中立的预先固定的分析对象，而是通过渗透到英国国内社会的边境实践来积极执行和复制，从而为将欧洲跨性别研究的任务做出贡献。在这方面，我还将通过在国际关系中为国际关系中的更广泛的理论辩论做出，因为社会产生的现象是通过超越国内政治和国际政治之间传统区分的方式来构成边境实践的作用。 Methodologically I will perform a multi-sited ethnography comprised of initial critical discourse analysis of relevant policy documents, embedded participant observation with organizations that support trans* asylum seekersand semi-structured interviews with trans* asylum seekers and key policy makers identified during the participant observation.Through this I hope contribute to wider theoretical debates on the colonial production of transness sand cis-normativity and the domestic/international国际政治中的区别。除此之外，我还将为地方和国家一级政策参与者提供明确的政策建议，以减少其边缘化跨性别者*寻求庇护者，并希望有助于将学术和政策讨论转移到与跨跨庇护所相处。