LoReMi: Local Responses to Precarious Migrants: Frames, Strategies and Evolving Practices in Europe
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Sch of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography
Abstract
This project aims at mapping and enhancing local strategies to address the exclusion from essential services of migrants with precarious residential status. It will explore the challenges migrants face, emphasising the particular experiences of women, the services available in some cities such as healthcare and shelter, and the rationales for them. Case studies in Cardiff, Frankfurt and Vienna, in partnership with city councils and consultation with stakeholders, will explore differing approaches to provision within contrasting legal frameworks, including collaboration between public services and civil society. The project will strengthen transnational networking and knowledge exchange, to inform and enhance future practice.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Sarah Ann Spencer (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
| Description | Our fieldwork is as yet not completed (it began later than anticipated because of COVID) so that it is too early to discuss findings. However, even at this early stage, our partnership with a City Council and third sector stakeholders has already fostered a positive dialogue on the issues that we are investigating, bringing together a group of service providers with a common interest but who would not normally have a means to meet on a regular basis. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2021 |
| Sector | Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | Second Stakeholder meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Follow up meeting with public and third sector service providers, hosted by our partner Cardiff City Council, on 26 January 2022, to report back on the emerging findings from our fieldwork and get feedback on the findings as well as suggestions for further interviewees for the ongoing research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Stakeholder meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Hosted by our partner, Cardiff City Council, on 23 September 2021, for the purpose of consultation with public and third sector service providers in Cardiff on our proposed research on service provision to precarious migrants in order to understand the range of issues these stakeholders, and precarious migrants they interact with, are addressing; identify gaps in the existing evidence base; and engage their interest and participation in the forthcoming fieldwork. Held online because of COVID. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |