Italian sociologist awarded £248,940 to study the "peripheralisation of asylum accommodation"
Sounds very useful to UK taxpayers
Something I’ve noticed A LOT is foreign researchers being awarded UK taxpayer funding to study complete nonsense. Take the fact that one of the researchers behind the infamous study The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000 is a Portuguese man who lives in Sweden.
It’s bad enough when UK researchers are given grants for woke research. Even worse when we are giving out funding left, right and centre so that foreigners can study gay pig masculinities (as the Portuguese researcher has had a taxpayer-funded grant for) or “THE PERIPHERALISATION OF ASYLUM ACCOMMODATION: MILITARY SITES, VESSELS, AND HOTELS IN ENGLAND”, the title of today’s example.
The £248,940 study, running from August 2025 to August 2027, is being undertaken by Dr Gaja Maestri, “a sociologist with an expertise on migration and ethnicity, collective action, and gender and intersectionality.” Because the UK economy is really crying out for this skillset…
Maestri has done rather well out of the UK taxpayer. According to her online profile, she been subsidised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) multiple times - including her latest project.
Tellingly, the abstract for her new study begins with a line about the “hostile environment”, immediately signalling what her political leanings are. Never mind that her “qualitative investigation” (they always are; wokies can’t do maths) involves “in-depth interviews with a variety of stakeholders, including 24 local authorities’ and charities’ representatives, and 70 migrants”.
Maestri will also be working with “migrant advocacy organisations”, such as the British Red Cross, and the Migrants Champions Network. So I’m sure we can expect some very detached, objective research. NOT.
If you can be bothered, have a read of the abstract here. The gist is that asylum seekers are being moved into harsher types of accommodation (which I don’t even know is true), that this is a bit mean, and it’s time to “address the evolving needs and rights of asylum seekers.”
What about UK citizens’ “evolving needs and rights” each week as there’s a new story about a random foreign man stabbing/ raping someone?
You certainly won’t get funding for studying this. Meanwhile our bills are going up so that Italian sociologists and their fellow fauxcademics can produce vague research on how hostile Britain is.
So hostile that we are funding your crap!