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About the Project
Applications are invited for a three-year PhD studentship, supported by the College of Business and Social Sciences, to be undertaken within the Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement at Aston University. The studentship is offered in collaboration with the Refugee and Migration Centre.
The position is available to start in January 2024 October.
Supervisors: Amanda Russell Beattie, Patrycja Rozbicka and Heather Thomas
Background to the Project
In the United Kingdom refugee arrival and dispersal policies are legislated at the national level, but the delivery of these policies unfolds at the local level. Unpacking how local authorities and what Phillimore (2012) identifies as Migrant Refugee Community Organizations (MRCOs) deliver these policies remains a site of contestation and exploration. This research project acknowledges the Home Office Indicators of Integration Framework (2019) that provides a broad definition of refugee integration noting its multidimensional nature paying particular attention to the relationally embedded within integration. The document also highlights the contextual nature of a refugee integration journey and acknowledges that those who are best place to understand and support integration are those on the front line.
Working in partnership with the Refugee and Migrant Centre (RMC) and the Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement, this project unpacks the relationship between local authorities and MRCOs. It builds on the emerging work of ‘the everyday’ (Beattie, Eroukmanhoff & Head (2019)) and begins by locating the intricacies of everyday bureaucrats (Lipsky (2012)) to identify the entanglements of power in local migration ecosystem. It asks:
1. How do the stories of lived experiences of MRCO employees constitute the relationship between their organizations and the local authority?
2. How do MRCOs identify strategic operational goals and support their clients within the local migration ecosystem?
3. How are the migrant communities’ experiences shaped and unpacked within the entanglements of the local authority and MRCOs?
4. How is the system set up (barriers, challenges and opportunities) so that when unpacked it can lead to the improvement of implementation refugee arrival and dispersal policies?
The successful candidate will possess the ability to work with a mixed methodology (qualitative and quantitative skills) to engage with these research questions. The project will be underpinned by ethnographic research opportunities as the candidate will be embedded in the Refugee and Migrant Centre to understand its daily operations, supporting clients, and working in the wider Birmingham Migration Network. This will provide opportunities for open ended interviews (RQ1 and RQ2) with employees and volunteers within the organizations. Further opportunities for interviews with everyday bureaucrats will emerge as the candidate sets in the wider partnerships of CMFD and RMC. Quantitative analysis of RMC data (RQ3) will provide insights into the impact of RMC services to clients. These findings will compliment RQ1 and RQ2 and evidence best practice to the work done by RMC and how to further support clients and leverage relationships with local authorities (RQ4).
The successful applicant should have been awarded, or expect to achieve, a Masters degree in a relevant subject with an overall degree classification of at least Merit (or an equivalent qualification from an overseas institution) in Politics, International Relations, Sociology, or a relevant degree with work experience. Preferred skill requirements include knowledge/experience of UK Asylum policies, procedures and practices, as well as experience working in the third sector.
Contact information
For formal enquiries about this project contact Amanda Beattie (a.r.beattie@aston.ac.uk).
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