Interview Files 'The Globalisation of Eviction Enforcement'

The files deposited here are transcripts of audio recorded semi-structured interviews conducted as part of the research project entitled ‘The Globalisation of Eviction Enforcement’, Funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The project was a study of the international eviction enforcement sector, through case studies of eviction enforcement practices in the UK, Ireland, and South Africa. Interviews are with individuals involved in eviction enforcement, NGOs representing or working with evicted people, and relevant government and civil service figures.Project OutlineThis project aimed to fill a research gap in urban studies and housing scholarship around eviction enforcement. It attempted to understand how eviction enforcement practices, strategies and tactics emerge and disseminate between organizations responsible for physically enforcing evictions. The project sought to explain 3 interlocking research problems:1) How dedicated institutions such as private eviction companies, bailiffs and specific police agencies, and specialised strategies and tactics of forced eviction used by such agencies, are developed and spread.2) How physical and emotional eviction enforcement practices transfer and exchange between contexts and connect to wider networks of land economics and geopolitics.3) How resistance shapes and structures the development and spread of eviction enforcement.This research is motivated by a growing awareness of forced eviction as a global crisis (UN-HABITAT, 2011). The process of forced eviction can be defined as ‘when people are forced out of their homes and off their land, with little notice or none at all, often with the threat or use of violence’ (Amnesty, 2012:2). This study intervenes where recent work has highlighted a research gap around the security and policing agencies of eviction enforcement which physically carry out this work (e.g. Paton and Cooper, 2016). My previous reviews of the literature have emphasised the importance of transnational assemblages of eviction practice (Baker, 2020). Ethnographic case studies conducted by others show how evictions blend different material and emotional processes, producing feelings such as fear, anxiety and exhaustion (e.g. Lancione, 2017; Schoenberger and Beban, 2018). Research from the perspective of anti-eviction movements (Wilde, 2017; Roy, 2017) has often recorded the actions of eviction enforcers such as police and bailiffs in process, yet has not made a full account of the histories and frameworks from which their eviction practices have emerged, and their spread between contexts within this global crisis.This project began in 2019 and concluded September 2023.The project is governed by Ethical Approvals 034997 and 043186.ORCID: 0000-0001-9464-8323

本数据集仓库上传的文件为《驱逐执行的全球化》（The Globalisation of Eviction Enforcement）研究项目所录制的半结构化访谈（semi-structured interviews）录音转写文本，该项目由莱弗休姆信托基金（Leverhulme Trust）资助。本项目聚焦国际驱逐执行行业，选取英国、爱尔兰与南非的驱逐执行实践作为案例开展研究。访谈对象涵盖参与驱逐执行的从业人员、为被驱逐者提供代表或帮扶服务的非政府组织（NGO）相关人员，以及相关政府部门与公职人员。

项目概况
本项目旨在填补城市研究与住房学术领域中关于驱逐执行的研究空白。项目旨在探究驱逐执行的实践、策略与手段如何在负责物理性执行驱逐的各类组织之间产生并传播。本项目试图阐释三个相互关联的研究问题：
1. 私人驱逐公司、执达官（bailiffs）、特定警务机构等专门执行驱逐的机构，以及此类机构所采用的强制驱逐专项策略与手段，是如何形成并扩散的。
2. 物理与情感层面的驱逐执行实践如何在不同地域语境间转移与交流，并与更广泛的土地经济与地缘政治网络产生关联。
3. 反抗运动如何塑造并影响驱逐执行实践的发展与传播。

本研究的缘起在于学界与社会对强制驱逐作为全球性危机的认知日益加深（联合国人居署（UN-HABITAT），2011）。强制驱逐可被定义为“人们被强迫逐出家园与土地，几乎未获提前通知或完全未获通知，且往往伴随暴力威胁或实际使用暴力”（大赦国际（Amnesty），2012：2）。
现有研究已关注到实际执行驱逐工作的安保与警务机构的研究空白（如Paton与Cooper，2016），本研究即针对此领域展开补充。笔者此前的文献综述研究强调了驱逐实践的跨国集合体（transnational assemblages）的重要性（Baker，2020）。其他学者开展的民族志案例研究（ethnographic case studies）显示，驱逐过程如何融合不同的物质与情感维度，催生恐惧、焦虑与疲惫等负面情绪（如Lancione，2017；Schoenberger与Beban，2018）。从反驱逐运动视角开展的相关研究（Wilde，2017；Roy，2017）虽常记录了警务人员、执达官等驱逐执行者的行动过程，却未充分阐释其驱逐实践的起源与制度框架，以及在这场全球性危机中不同地域语境间的传播路径。

本项目于2019年启动，2023年9月正式结题。
本项目已获得伦理审批编号034997与043186。
ORCID：0000-0001-9464-8323