Our Lives Asylum Seekers

This dataset contains project materials and interview transcripts from a qualitative study aiming to undertake a nuanced analysis of phenomena surrounding the acceptance of asylum seekers by interviewing a subset of the Our Lives cohort to better appreciate why some young Australians are accepting of asylum seekers. The broader Our Lives project (www.ourlives.org.au) is a longitudinal study following, among other things, the social and political orientations of a single age cohort of young people in Queensland, Australia as they move from adolescence into adulthood. For nearly a decade, the study has been collecting both quantitative and qualitative data from this group of young people on different domains of their lives. The goal of the qualitative investigation was to listen to participants speak on the topic of asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat, and to consider how they come to understand what they ‘know’ about the issue and how this relates to their attitudes and actions towards ‘boat people’. It was undertaken by applying a purposive intensity sampling strategy to identify potential participants, selecting respondents who had strongly agreed or strongly disagreed with the statement ‘All boats carrying asylum seekers should be turned back’ in the 2010 Our Lives survey. Ultimately interviews were conducted in 2012 with 20 young people who had indicated in their response to the question that they held firm views on the asylum issue.

本数据集包含一项质性研究（qualitative study）的项目资料与访谈转录文本，该研究旨在通过访谈“我们的人生”（Our Lives）队列中的部分受访者，对澳大利亚青年接纳寻求庇护者的相关现象开展精细化分析，以深入厘清部分澳大利亚青年接纳寻求庇护者的内在动因。作为本研究依托的母项目，“我们的人生”（Our Lives）项目（官网：www.ourlives.org.au）是一项纵向研究（longitudinal study），长期追踪澳大利亚昆士兰州同一年龄队列的年轻人从青春期向成年期过渡过程中的社会与政治取向等多维度发展情况。近十年来，该研究已从该群体的生活各领域收集了定量与质性双重数据。本次质性研究的核心目标为：倾听受访者就乘船抵达澳大利亚的寻求庇护者议题发表的观点，探究他们如何形成对该议题的“认知”，以及此类认知与他们对“船民”的态度和行为之间的内在关联。本次研究采用目的性强度抽样（purposive intensity sampling）策略遴选潜在受访者：从2010年“我们的人生”调查中，筛选出对"所有搭载寻求庇护者的船只均应被遣返"这一表述持完全赞同或完全反对态度的受访者。最终，研究团队于2012年对20名在寻求庇护者议题上立场明确的青年完成了访谈。