Everyday Bordering in the UK: The Impact on Social Care Practitioners and the Migrant Families With Whom They Work, 2020-2022

Data are transcripts based on focus groups and qualitative interviews with social care practitioners, and interviews with members of migrant families living in the UK. Practitioner data relates to focus groups, and some interviews, conducted at the start of the study which then informed the content of one-to-one ‘mid-point’ interviews with other practitioners. Professional groups represented are linked to anonymised collaborating organisations, including: educators, family support workers, social workers and youth and community workers. Further data is based on interviews conducted with practitioners ‘external’ to the collaborating organisation, most of whom were qualified social workers. Data generated via work with migrant families include transcripts from interviews with members of migrant families. Some were interviewed separately, and others in pairs, or as a group of three. Prior to the interviews, participants completed creative diaries. However, these included names, photographs and highly personal accounts. As such, they cannot be anonymised and have not been used as data but, rather an elicitation tool in the interviews. For this reason, the content of the diaries is not shared here. All transcripts have been anonymised. Names have been replaced with pseudonyms and other identifying characteristics have been removed, including the names of identifying collaborating organisations. The study was conducted across two cities that are identified: Hull and Sheffield. For this reason, the cities and the names of some organisations and areas of the city that are referenced have not been changed. The ‘Everyday Bordering in the UK: the impact of everyday bordering on social care practitioners and the migrant families with whom they work’, was a 30-month project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, 2020-2022. The project sought to understand if and how the UK’s increasingly hostile environment towards immigration impacts on social care practitioners and the families that they support. The aims of the project were therefore: to work with social care professionals, (with and without statutory immigration control and/or social care duties), and the migrant families supported by them to understand whether, and to what extent, practices of ‘everyday bordering’ permeate across social care professions working with a range of migrant families (refugees, asylum seekers, EU migrants and third country nationals); and to examine if and how the requirement to enact immigration control in ‘everyday’ professional practice impacts on the support migrant families receive. More broadly, the objectives of the study were: to compare whether and to what extent different social care professionals enact and/or resist ‘everyday’ bordering’ practices in their work with migrant family members, and the forms these practices take; and to understand how migrant individuals identify and experience the performance of these practices. In order to achieve these aims and objectives, the study took a collaborative approach. Through a range of ethnographic activities, we worked with collaborating organisations and their partners to identify participants (practitioner and migrant family members) and to inform and refine the research questions. This included using semi-structed focus groups and interviews with practitioners, and interviews supported by elicitation techniques with members of migrant families. As part of the project, we also conducted creative art workshops to enable migrant family members to identify the ways in which they wanted to represent their experiences of everyday bordering. A group of young family migrant family members that we worked with in Sheffield chose to use photography, and this was exhibited as 'A Tale of Two Sheffields', in partnership with ‘City of Sanctuary – Sheffield’ at the 2022 Migrant Matters Festival. In Hull, family members chose to work with local community artists to create short films of interviews that they curated. These are included as resource in the project output, ‘Working with Migrant Communities: a resource for practitioners’. These activities and creative outputs, underpinned by the findings of the study, gave voice to members of migrant families that told us that they often feel unheard. They have also contributed to addressing a gap in training and resources for practitioners working with migrant family members.

本数据集的内容为基于焦点小组（focus groups）与质性访谈（qualitative interviews）所得的转录文本，受访对象为英国社会护理从业者（social care practitioners），以及居住在英国的移民家庭（migrant families）成员。从业者相关数据来自研究初期开展的焦点小组与部分访谈，这些内容为后续针对其他从业者开展的一对一‘中期’访谈（mid-point interviews）提供了依据。受访的专业群体关联至匿名化（anonymised）合作机构，涵盖教育工作者、家庭支持专员、社会工作者以及青年与社区工作者。另有部分数据来自合作机构之外的‘外部’从业者访谈，其中多数为持证社会工作者。与移民家庭相关的数据包含移民家庭成员的访谈转录文本，部分受访者单独受访，其余则以双人或三人小组形式受访。访谈前，参与者需填写创意日记，但此类日记包含姓名、照片与高度个人化的叙述内容，因此无法进行匿名化处理，未被作为研究数据使用，仅作为访谈中的启发式工具（elicitation techniques），故此日记内容未在此处公开。所有访谈转录文本均已完成匿名化处理：姓名已替换为化名（pseudonyms），其他可识别特征已移除，包括合作机构的名称。本研究在两座城市开展，分别为赫尔（Hull）与谢菲尔德（Sheffield），因此文中提及的城市、部分机构以及城市内区域名称均未作改动。本项目全称为《英国的日常边境化（everyday bordering）：日常边境化对社会护理从业者及其服务的移民家庭的影响》，是一项为期30个月的研究项目，由经济与社会研究委员会（Economic and Social Research Council）于2020-2022年资助。项目旨在探究英国日益严苛的移民敌对环境是否以及如何影响社会护理从业者及其所服务的家庭。因此，本项目的目标包括：与承担或不承担法定移民管控及/或社会护理职责的社会护理专业人士，以及他们所服务的移民家庭合作，以明确日常边境化实践在面向不同移民家庭（包括难民、寻求庇护者（asylum seekers）、欧盟移民（EU migrants）以及第三国国民（third country nationals））的社会护理行业中的渗透程度与具体方式；同时检视在‘日常’专业工作中落实移民管控的要求，是否以及如何影响移民家庭所获得的支持。进一步而言，本研究的具体目标包括：对比不同社会护理专业人士在面向移民家庭成员的工作中，落实或抵制日常边境化实践的程度差异，以及此类实践的具体形式；同时了解移民个体如何识别并体验此类实践的实施过程。为实现上述研究目标，本研究采用协作式研究路径，通过一系列民族志研究活动（ethnographic activities），与合作机构及其合作伙伴共同筛选受访对象（从业者与移民家庭成员），并完善研究问题，具体方式包括面向从业者的半结构化焦点小组与访谈，以及面向移民家庭成员的启发式访谈。作为项目的一部分，我们还开展了创意艺术工作坊（creative art workshops），帮助移民家庭成员表达他们希望如何呈现自身的日常边境化经历。在谢菲尔德开展工作期间，一组年轻的移民家庭成员选择使用摄影进行创作，该作品与谢菲尔德‘庇护之城——谢菲尔德（City of Sanctuary – Sheffield）’合作，以《两座谢菲尔德的故事》（A Tale of Two Sheffields）为名在2022年‘移民要事节（Migrant Matters Festival）’展出。在赫尔，受访家庭选择与当地社区艺术家合作，制作由他们策划的访谈短片，这些内容被收录至项目成果《与移民社区合作：从业者参考资源》（Working with Migrant Communities: a resource for practitioners）中。本研究的发现支撑了上述活动与创意成果，为那些表示自己常不被倾听的移民家庭成员提供了发声渠道，同时也填补了面向移民家庭从业者的培训与资源缺口。